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that kind of bloatware shitty antivirus you are using is far more dangerous than anything else. wake up, n00b

What exactly does nslookup have to do with a keylogger? Don't level3 just provide a lot of infrastructure for the internet? Why do you use Norton?

Have you disassembled it or anything? I mean I'm not saying that what you are saying is untrue but how can you possibly expect anyone to believe you when you have not provided any reason for anyone to believe that you know what the hell you are talking about...

I'm sorry here, but what does exactly PIXAR have to do with making and distributing the video game?

So you're no longer a PIXAR fan because of game based on a movie they made "might" have a keylogger. While I understand your concern for a serious breach of security here, your focus of blame is entirely off.

For such an intelligent person, this is the most irrational thing I have ever heard.

Tip:
How about everybody who's looking into this post the filesize and MD5s of the files they downloaded and investigated?

That would immediately show if weird stuff has been going on.
If this is a DNS spoofing, it will show up. There is NO way that an attacker can spoof for everybody with a 100% success rate.

Sidebar note:
Is there anything besides the Norton notification that indicated that this download is infected? False positives do happen. Some of my own software has been flagged in the past by Norton. It usually takes about a week of mailing for them to reply to the tune of

"Oopsy... Our bad. Sorry we made hundreds of your customers yell at you. We'll fix it sometime next month."

Coming from a game making side, you really shouldn't pin this one on pixar. More than likely, the marketing department at pixar decided to pursue making a Wall-E game (a brilliantly good idea financially). Pixar, however, does notmake games. They probably shopped around and found a midsized game studio willing to make it on the cheaper side, as anything with Wall-E stamped on it is selling like hotcakes these days. As the people who frequent this blog probably understand, with low profile software, you can get away with more slop and sneak than on high profile stuff, and vice versa. See the Hot Coffee scandal for an example.
The folks over at pixar probably played through the finished game once or twice, and gave it the OK. I'd wager that nobody on the approval board has ever heard the word Keylogger.

In short, Pixar is good at making movies (damn good), but not at making video games. Please don't let this outsourced straight-to-bargain-bin game tarnish the reputation of an otherwise excellent animation studio

Thanks for the warnings, indeed it's a sad time we live in. Nevertheless this shouldn't stop us from playing, eventually we can find solutions to this problem and move one with it. Do you have any other alternatives in mind?

Really a good one..keep on posting more like this..thanks.

Great Post!! It was very helpful.

PC gaming has become an important part in day to day life. So in the context of this the gaming programming that you have specified is really a great one. Thanks for posting.

What remains unclear, however, is what the end game is.

Post more like these..thanks

Post more like these..thanks

What exactly does nslookup have to do with a keylogger? Don't level3 just provide a lot of infrastructure for the internet? Why do you use Norton? Have you disassembled it or anything? I mean I'm not saying that what you are saying is untrue but how can you possibly expect anyone to believe you when you have not provided any reason for anyone to believe that you know what the hell you are talking about.

I enjoyed going through the comments area more than the article itself. nice posts..

thanks guys

I hate keyloggers, some people use this spyware to stolen passwords or credit card accounts and this is fraud. A good antivirus can catch them easily, if is up to date.

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Last days I've found 2 keyloggers after downloading some demo games, my antivirus alarm started announcing me it have found some spyware. Double-clicked to start the game and Kaspersky detects a keylogger!! It states 'Suspicious action: Keylogger'. The program running this process is stated as being Crysis.exe!!!

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