From: "xp05" <
[email protected]>
| About keystroke logging-
| if you suspect it might be on your computer, if someone might have done that
| what are some of the signs that the computer has it.
| Ive read it can be transmitted to a computer without actually coming in
| contact with the pc, like it can be done through sending a greeting card, etc
|
| keystorke logging programs can send saved documents to whoever might be
| doing this, because this program records every key stroke you make-
| Can it record/send documents that are not saved, like when you're just
| typing in Word, and just exit it without not saving?
For futrure reference:
Keylogging Trojans are a type of malware and it is *best* to ask about malware in anti
malware News Groups such as the following...
alt.privacy.spyware
microsoft.public.security.virus
alt.comp.virus
alt.comp.anti-virus
Most, if not all, affected users will NOT know that a Keylogging Trojan is installed. If
they had an indication thet it was installed by the user then it would be self defeating.
Therefore Keylogging Trojans tend to be rather stealthy with some using RootKit technology
( such as the Backdoor.Haxdoor ). So there will be no signs other than maybe connection to
some oddball web site peridically. By that time it is TOO LATE and your information,
privacy and accounts are compramised. Keylogging Trojans will capture keystrokes, save them
in a disk file and send the disk file to a third party server or open a backdoor top gthe
computer where a third party could remoteley access said data.
Keyloggers do not send data files. By definition, they only capture keystrokes. Those
Keystrokes could be accessing your online bank. Now there *may* be other forms of malware
that *may* capture MS Office Documents but it would NOT be a Keylogging Trojan.
You can use the following Multi AV Scanning Tool for the detection and removal of many forms
of malware.
Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close
Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.
You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.
http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm
Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm
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