KeyLoggers - NOT found by this otherwise good AntiSpyWare

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KeyLoggerHater

Recently a run of Spython detected the E.Check KeyLogger,
and it was the only program to get to it and to remove it.
None of the others, including MSFT's AntiSpyWare found
it... This makes me wonder, HOW MUCH DO THE ANTISPYWARE
FOLKS really focus on those MOST DANGEROUS KEYLOGGERS, and
how they are really going about it?! It would take a high
number of testers and surfers to make sure they are
uptodate, since only 'practice', getting themselves some on
their PCs, would be useful. Then those infected ones could
be compared to the immaculate ones, and the differences be
found. A constant army of fresh PCs would have to run on
constantly changing IP addresses around to the 'bad' sites
to catch all the crap the could, not a nice task, but it
seems very necessary...to really help the customer. Hope
this helps, M
 
Hi

All antispyware makers try to detect as much as possible
but with an ongoing explosion with numerous new trojans,
keyloggers etc this is really difficult.

You can help MS and other users if you send in spyware
reports to MS about this, menu tools within MSAS.

To protect yourself you can also use a real firewall with both inbound
and outbound filter such as ZoneAlarm, Kerio etc.
MS SP2 firewall is too weak for this sort of malware.
 
From first-hand experience, the trial version of Giant
AntiSpyware, which Microsoft bought from Giant Company
and is reworking into MSAS, found a keylogger on my
system. Since the only appreciable difference between
Ginat's version and Microsoft's is with
cookies/dataminers, then it should detect and remove
these programs.

My best guess is that it's a new, or fairly new, type of
keylogger. If that's the case, then it could slip
through MSAS', and almost any other antispyware product.
The best way to deal with these type of infections is a
product designed specifically for that task.

Alan
 
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