Sophos reports old Mekanism is listening to the microphone

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Sophos reports old Mekanism is listening to the microphone

Opened this issue 5 years ago · 3 comments

Deleted user commented 5 years ago

FYI The AstroBlock modpack is using Mekanism 1.12.2-9.6.8.366 (about 13 releases ago). Sophos AV is reporting that the mod is listening to the microphone. I don't know why it's reporting it, or whether other old versions have this error (the newest ones don't trigger). I'm sure it's a weird dependency mixup causing some third-party library to include something stupid, but you might consider pulling that release to avoid problems. (DW20 and Soaryn mentioned AstroBlock on YT so others may take a peek.)
NFINIT-Labs/AstroBlock#82

pupnewfster · Answer 1 · 2019-09-18T04:12:10.000Z

Turning off the voice server in the config probably will stop this?

thiakil · Answer 2 · 2019-09-19T13:31:14.000Z

Pretty sure your AV is just being super paranoid. Yes, if you have the voice server turned on the device is opened, but it's not actually recording

Deleted user · Answer 3 · 2019-09-20T03:54:24.000Z

It's not paranoid if it's true. AV is reporting that software was accessing the mic and that's all. Personally, I think it's bad coding to open channels you're not using and be lax about security, but I was just giving you a heads up about a potential problem.

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