Spyware, viruses, & security forum: I think I have a keylogger installed

KeyScrambler

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Just my two sense,
hogndog

I added keyloggers to keep people off my work computers, located at home. People allowed to do homework or an art project kept installing games and freebies, going on chat. If I was out working, they thought I wouldn't know and no harm done. From the Logger I could print out the offensive action - to counter the usual, "you're just paranoid about nothing," excuses. If anyone checked their email accounts, or did other transactions using my computers, my Logger showed me what time and their passwords. A note saying, "You left these on my computer," is a deterrent.

Another use is when doing a lot of writing. Use the log saved in date order to get your text back when, deep into a project, a chunk of text vanishes off your pretty page, for no apparent reason. If you like to keep a clean computer - the presence of the logger helps you keep it clean. As long as no one else can tap your logger.

Do yourself a favor and buy a program called RoboForm, it's cheap and very effective. It allows you to store all your passwords securely and autofills login/passwords and forms. Your login/password data and form information are protected by a master password you pick.

This program has been checked over and over and endorsed by many security experts, it uses multiple state-of-the-art encryption methods and no keylogger can steal your information because after you enter it once you never have to type it again.

If you get the RoboForm Mobile you can put it on a thumb-drive/portable USB device and take it with you. It is still protected by your selected master password. Since you don't have to remember the login/passwords you can use random key/number combinations for your account logins(of course make a backup of your data). This gets you out of the same password trap.

For your master password (which you definitely need to remember) a good method is to think of an easy to remember phrase that has personal meaning to you like "I think some 50 year old pervert is stalking me!" and use the first letter of every word, all digits of a number in the phase and any punctuation.

Your master password would then be "Its50yopism!" Try guessing that one or using a cracker to get it, ha!

You now have the superfecta of password security: randomness, multi-case, numbers, and special characters.

So even if there was a keylogger installed all they would see is the master password which absolutely does them no good without access to your device or computer as well. It's not any accounts login or password in and of itself.

The nice thing about the RoboForm2Go is it's portability. You can take it on the road and use on any computer. I'm not a shill for RoboForm or anything, it's the solution that works best for me as I travel on business and use it with my work laptop.

It's $19.95 USD which I consider a bargain for it's functionality.

I like to try-out and evaluate various software programs. In particular: Anti-Virus, anti-spyware, and firewall programs. If I'm not satisfied with the performance of one, I will COMPLETELY uninstall it and try another. And I've tried quite a few.....like avast, computer associates, kaspersky, norton, pc tools, trend micro, zone labs, ect, ect ,ect. Some do a good job of detecting and eliminating those pesky viruses, spyware and the like. A few throw up so many pop-up alerts it's annoying. And some are very difficult to completely uninstall because remnants of the files remain on the computer even after being "un-installed" through the control panel add/remove utility. And you know what ??? I still have Not found the perfect program. IF A HACKER WANTS INTO YOUR SYSTEM (for example), HE/SHE WILL GET IN NO MATTER WHAT !!! I guess what it may all boil down to is what you personally are happy with overall. Life is sacred....so can be one's computer. Good luck.

I have a 130 lb Rottweiler. However, he is a big baby. He won't bark unless it is a mail truck or someone is walking in front of our property.

The police are useless. They told me that there wasn't a law being broken. It is just an irritation. They won't even take a report for cyber stalking

Since you was using Comodo Firewall Pro, it is unlikely somebody could put a keylogger in your computer, Defense+ function should have stopped it. Also, Spybot Search & Destroy is good to detect malware... maybe the attack comes from somebody with phisical access to your computer... a nasty idea...

Google hijackthis, try to find a forum where people can help you to check hijackthis reports, and make sure your computer is clean. You can't do anything to secure your computer if it is already telling your enemy what you are doing to improve security. Once you are sure the computer is clean, start using some password manager (I like Keepass), and make sure your passwords are good passwords... keepass can generate random pass for you, so there is no way they are "easy to guess" and make sure the master passphrase is hard to guess... at the same time, make sure you won't forget it, since there is no backdoor to recover the stored passwords without it.....

This is what my spy doctor found. It says that it is a klg.dat

Anyone every heard of this?

I use Yahoo Anti-Spy program. Deletes cookies, trojans and keylogger programs.

& repost (front page of forum>create new thread button). I don't know IF yours would have anything to do w/ keyloggers. Plus we'll need info on your machine as in RED at top of posting page (OS, browsers, etc.):-)

One other thing you might want to try. One at a time, take all the people you have any contact with, and feed them some false information. Oh, some kind of bait, like, "I just set up an account on this new online service. My username is..." Do this with everyone, but just one different bit of info for each person. If you need to set up anything, use the internet at your local library. Then, see if anyone takes the bait. If you're clever, you might be able to flush out the culprit, that is, if it's someone you still have contact with.