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Ed Martin
Does MS Spyware look for key-loggers?
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Andre Da Costa
It does, but no list is available. There have been reports of some
difficulty in removing keyloggers in these forums. My advice is that if you
find such in place, call Microsoft PSS's free help for virus removal. In
the US and Canada, that's 1-866-pcsafety. Elsewhere, call your local
Microsoft office, or a number published for fee-based support, and ask for
the free help with virus removal or security patch issues.
I suggest a good current Anti Virus to deal with a keylogger.
How did you come to know that you had one?
Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
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Keyloggers programmers are against removal because the consider it a
legit program. The problem is the key loggers can be use for bad as
well as good.
I don't see it as a good program.
Some of the spybot and adaware protection programs are now including
key loggers.
I think both spybot S&D, Lavasoft adaware and even spywareblaster
detect and remove keyloggers.
Greg Ro
The "good" ones are mainly used by companies to make
certain that employees aren't sending e-mails to people
they aren't supposed to send them to while using the
company's systems. They can also be used to curb sexual
harassment in the workplace. Most companies only check
to make certain that their employees aren't taking
advantage of their computer network(s). Too many people
spend a lot of company time surfing the Internet and
sending e-mails to loved ones, instead of doing their
jobs, and this ends up costing these companies large sums
of money. This is akin to being paid to do a certain
task, and doing some other non-essential task. Many of
these compaines have implemented these procedures because
they have been taken advantage of by their employees, and
they have to protect their bottom line.
Alan
Well, to use keyloggers against employees
is really sick ! This must be sick companys with
directors with paranoia.
Maybe our Police with a court order can use this tactic
or if a employee sign a agreement that a keylogger
is installed within a PC.
A company can explain for all employees that all traffic
is tracked in other ways and therefore a computer PC
at work should not be used for private traffic.
Really sick......!
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plun
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Andre
Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
difficulty in removing keyloggers in these forums. My advice is that if you
find such in place, call Microsoft PSS's free help for virus removal. In
the US and Canada, that's 1-866-pcsafety. Elsewhere, call your local
Microsoft office, or a number published for fee-based support, and ask for
the free help with virus removal or security patch issues.
I suggest a good current Anti Virus to deal with a keylogger.
How did you come to know that you had one?
Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Keyloggers programmers are against removal because the consider it a
legit program. The problem is the key loggers can be use for bad as
well as good.
I don't see it as a good program.
Some of the spybot and adaware protection programs are now including
key loggers.
I think both spybot S&D, Lavasoft adaware and even spywareblaster
detect and remove keyloggers.
Greg Ro
The "good" ones are mainly used by companies to make
certain that employees aren't sending e-mails to people
they aren't supposed to send them to while using the
company's systems. They can also be used to curb sexual
harassment in the workplace. Most companies only check
to make certain that their employees aren't taking
advantage of their computer network(s). Too many people
spend a lot of company time surfing the Internet and
sending e-mails to loved ones, instead of doing their
jobs, and this ends up costing these companies large sums
of money. This is akin to being paid to do a certain
task, and doing some other non-essential task. Many of
these compaines have implemented these procedures because
they have been taken advantage of by their employees, and
they have to protect their bottom line.
Alan
Well, to use keyloggers against employees
is really sick ! This must be sick companys with
directors with paranoia.
Maybe our Police with a court order can use this tactic
or if a employee sign a agreement that a keylogger
is installed within a PC.
A company can explain for all employees that all traffic
is tracked in other ways and therefore a computer PC
at work should not be used for private traffic.
Really sick......!
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plun
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Andre
Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
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Ron Chamberlin
Hi Ed,
Yes it does. Might not nab all of them, and a current up to date AV, along
with a firewall is a good defense to add.
Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
Yes it does. Might not nab all of them, and a current up to date AV, along
with a firewall is a good defense to add.
Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP