Smoopfree and Party weird behavior

[Erik W]

Hi!
I installed snoopfree for a couple of weeks ago,
Party wants to hook my keyboard which seems natural.

The weird part is that every time I start Party it creates a new file with different names very similar to 3A.tmp and that file wants to hook my keyboard. It seems very weird to me. Is it a keylogger that detects party and starts every time I start Party or is it parto fthe Party software to circumvent blocking the PArty.exe to read the keyboard and processes etc(if you have some program like that installed).

I have Norton Antivirus
Norton Firewall
SpyBot

Not any of those programs reacts to that file.

Anyone who can enlighten me what is going on?

thx

[AngryEgyptian]

Party copies its security DLL from the party directory into a temporary directory and the loads the library from there, instead of loading it directly from the security DLL. I presume this is what party considers some sort of rudimentary security precaution - but really its just stupid. No it is not a keylogger, well not in the sense that you're thinking. Its part of party.

[Raemius]

I believe the .tmp file is used for chat, when I had snoopfree deny it, I couldn't chat.

Party software is generally stupid

[AngryEgyptian]

It isn't used for chat it is used for keyboard/mouse hooking, however a side effect of disallowing certain types of hooks that party attempts to create is loss of the ability to chat.

[LoveDub]

OMG! I was wondering why my chats weren't being shown. LOL!

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[Erik W]

thanks for the answers
so then I can sleep well

really annoying that they use different names every time so Snoopfree will pop up with it's dialogue to prevent or allow it.

[Raemius]

what is the need for keyboard/mouse hooking... I usually don't allow this anyway.

[AngryEgyptian]

One would assume to catch bots, of both the spam and poker variety.