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Pearl Echo mysteriously on my pc...

Does anyone know how this program propagates? I am fairly scrupulous about websites I visit, my browser settings, only use Firefox, have anti-Span, Zone Alarm Security Suite, Spyware Doctor 3.8 (only v3.8 detected and removed it...). The only apps I have installed recently are iTunes, and the latest verision of Kensington Mouseworks...
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Is this a cooorate/company PC?  According to http://www.cyber-snoop.com/ this is a Employee Monitoring and Internet Control program.
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Hi

Reviews by SC magazine here:

http://www.scmagazine.com/uk/products/productdetails/0ed47dc8-8bd8-4e06-911f-d6fbe297ba79/pearl+echo+/

hardly a glowing review though...

It's produced by these guys:
http://www.pearlsw.com/

I'm slightly surprised that a company would go as far as to use monitoring software like this, but still allow you to install various personal firewalls and anti-spyware etc - unless these were all rolled out by your company?

If it's a personal machine then I guess someone could be trying to use a dodgy copy of Perl echo for key-logging / monitoring...

Cheers

K
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It's a personal machine...
Next question, are you a child under the age of 18 at home?  If so, maybe mom/dad is watching what you are doing.

If not, then did you buy this new or did you get this used where it could have been used at a company?

Can you tell when it was installed? An install log, dates on configuration files, something like that.
Ha ha! No, I am adult. This is a machine I have had for years and monitor closely. I run Spyware Doctor scans once a week, and I hadn't installed anything on it besides Kensington Mouseworks or iTunes for several months. All scans were clean until I upgraded to Spyware Doctor 3.8 yesterday. So I don't know how long the PearlEcho program had been there. It certainly isn't "installed" in the customary sense, in Add/Remove Programs. SpywareDoctor discovered registry traces, which it removed. And there certainly aren't any files on folders anywhere on the hard drive containing either the string "pearl" or "echo".
I wondered if perhaps SpywareDoctor had reported a false positive...
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