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RE: But there IS a Virus

Serge wrote:

It is called ahkosk or smth like that . . .

Ahkosk.exe is NOT a virus or a trojan or any form of malware. There is a popular GPL automation utility called Autohotkey embedded in cMP to drive its remote control facility and ‘on-screen’ keyboard. The latter relies on a little executable whose name is the acronymn of:

AutoHotKeyOnScreenKeyboard:

i.e. AHKOSK.exe.

These have been discussed on the forum (inc the reasons for using ahkosk in preference to Microsoft's OSK utility) and I think they are mentioned in the documentation though I haven't checked.

I don't use either facility so I've no direct experience of them. In fact, I'd prefer it if loading them was made optional to lower the memory footprint but it's not what I'd call an urgent mod. Meanwhile, see:

http://www.autohotkey.com/

and:

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic18378.html

*** After posting this, I found that Uzeb has already pointed elsewhere to a thread on the "cMP is malware" rumour. I apologise for any duplication but it's worth nailing this one.

Best

Dave


Edits: 04/26/09
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