Issue 60 in touchfreeze: AVG Antivirus detects "identity protection" issue with touchfreeze.exe

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New issue 60 by ken.wins...@gmail.com: AVG Antivirus detects "identity
protection" issue with touchfreeze.exe
http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/issues/detail?id=60

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Fresh install of latest version from this site on Windows 7 Ultimate
laptop running AVG free antivirus 2014 with latest updates and definitions.
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.1.0 / Win 7 Ultimate

Please provide any additional information below.

I told AVG to accept it as an exception since I have been using touchfreeze
for, it seems like, 10 years or so... Any idea why it triggered the alert?



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Comment #1 on issue 60 by chem...@gmail.com: AVG Antivirus

detects "identity protection" issue with touchfreeze.exe

https://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/issues/detail?id=60

TouchFreeze uses low-level hooks to intercept key press and mouse events.
Malware applications like keyloggers also uses it to steal passwords and
other personal information. That's why antivirus raises red-flag on
TouchFreeze.

But TouchFreeze is open-source and you may check the source code to make
sure that it doesn't disclose any personal information to third-party.