ZoneAlarm Alert on Amp.exe

[Harry G]

I just installed the player. ZoneAlarm is telling me that amp.exe is trying to monitor my mouse movements and keyboard strokes.

Does it need to do this or has spyware gotten into my copy of the program?

[ChristinaS]

Re: ZoneAlarm Alert on Amp.exe

You can enable hotkeys in dAP, so that would explain the monitoring of keyboard strokes. Not sure about mouse movements.

Your ZoneAlarm settings are very touchy, I must say.

[donny]

Re: ZoneAlarm Alert on Amp.exe

mouse and keyboard go together

there is also an option for dap not to show on the taskbar, so that could also explain the mouse monitoring...

[Spoon]

Re: ZoneAlarm Alert on Amp.exe

It monitors keys so when you press CTRL + ALT + M you get my musc collection, (you have to configure those first), no spying.

[Djiezes]

Re: ZoneAlarm Alert on Amp.exe

I'm having the same problem, and in search for a better solution.

You can get rid of that annoyance by disabling 'OSFirewall' in Zonealarm. That's about the only workaround i could find and i searched a lot. Not even in the very active ZoneAlarm forums they could give a solution to this annoyance.

Is there a way to disable the dbpoweramp hotkeys or in short, the mouse and keyboard monitoring function in Dbpoweramp?

The trouble is, zonealarm will give that same message for every application you run when dbpoweramp is running. Even when you shut down dbpoweramp it will still give that message for every program that's running.
This, and the fact that i quite like the OSFirewall function in ZoneAlarm makes me want to find a better solution to this annoyance.

[donny]

Re: ZoneAlarm Alert on Amp.exe

I think those warnings are appeareing no mater are you running dap, cause many apps want to see what you are doing... as far as I know dap will work even if you deny access perminent, or you could grant it perminent if you want to trust it...
same goes for the other apps, most of them will work fine when you deny them. anyway you can try then let only the ones who really need it. just click on the "always" checkbox

[Spoon]

Re: ZoneAlarm Alert on Amp.exe

Delete the file dapkeycontrol.dll (reboot pc so can access the file), then no more global hotkeys in dap.