Keyloggers on Samsung laptops
“On March 1, 2011, I called and logged incident 2101163379 with Samsung Support (SS). First, as Sony BMG did six years ago, the SS personnel denied the presence of such software on its laptops. After having been informed of the two models where the software was found and the location, SS changed its story by referring the author to Microsoft since "all Samsung did was to manufacture the hardware." When told that did not make sense, SS personnel relented and escalated the incident to one of the support supervisors.
The supervisor who spoke with me was not sure how this software ended up in the new laptop thus put me on hold. He confirmed that yes, Samsung did knowingly put this software on the laptop to, as he put it, "monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used."
Source: http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2011/040411sec1.html
Also reported on sophos.com, but with the following update:
“Cnet.com is reporting that they looked at a Samsung series 9 and did not find the keylogging software. This could indicate it is only being installed on one series (R), or in fact Samsung is not behind it's installation.”
Source: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/03/30/samsung-intentionally-shipping-laptops-with-keyloggerspy-software/