keyboard and mouse hooks

[otter]

I just recently found out what these are...had NO idea. Thank you so much. Is it OK to allow hooks from logitech? It would seem that since that is the mouse I use that it would need to monitor things.

[jukofyork]

Yes, I think people are getting over paranoid about hooks [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

If the hook is coming from a known piece of software which you trust, then most likely the hooks are needed to for the software to function properly.

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Mogobu The Fool]

As an example, I'm running ProcessGuard. I didn't run it in "learning" mode, because I wanted to get a good look at everything going on.

Because of blocked keyboard hooks, the "Calculator" button on my keyboard doesn't bring up the calculator.

When a program crashes, I don't get Dump error - I get a ProcessGuard popup warning me that something wants to run the dump software.

A lot of stuff goes on under the hood, and most of it is totally appropriate.

Even things like reading the display -- that doesn't necessarily mean that Party is taking a screenshot. They could have code which is checking whether the action buttons are being displayed properly or not.