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Best/good programs for removing keyloggers?
TM2 Rampage
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As in, keyloggers that happened to get on my parents' comp via the internet.
I'm using Spybot: Search and Destroy and AdAware SE Personal Edition. I'm still paranoid that there might be something left, though... Since one time I scanned only with Spybot, found some keyloggers, then after a reboot, a keylogger window popped up. It was really odd, though, because it said something like "Your 3 day trial for (name of Keylogger program) will expire soon" or something. Funky. I didn't install anything on the comp, and my parents didn't either... at least I don't think so.
My cousin downloaded AdAware onto it and then did a scan... but I forgot to tell him to let me see the list of stuff removed ^_^;;
I'm using Spybot: Search and Destroy and AdAware SE Personal Edition. I'm still paranoid that there might be something left, though... Since one time I scanned only with Spybot, found some keyloggers, then after a reboot, a keylogger window popped up. It was really odd, though, because it said something like "Your 3 day trial for (name of Keylogger program) will expire soon" or something. Funky. I didn't install anything on the comp, and my parents didn't either... at least I don't think so.
My cousin downloaded AdAware onto it and then did a scan... but I forgot to tell him to let me see the list of stuff removed ^_^;;
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You're just being paranoid.
If you're looking for ways to keep keyloggers out, download the free Zonealarm firewall. Works like a charm.
But your problem sounds like a virus. Get AVG Free edition.
Making the above mentioned boot CD and scanning the system from it might be more effective than doing it from within the system. Just make sure you update all the scanner definitions before burning the CD and the newest version has a really stupid default setting so make sure to configure PreLoader and clear the expiration date, otherwise you won't be able to boot from it.
Another really neat way of dealing with installed crap is to get some sort of disk-imaging program, make a fresh installation of XP with all the programs you'll want and make an image of the system partition. Now, every time something is fucked up you just restore that (or a more recent version that was OK), which takes less than 10min.
The key to this is to have a separate partition for your user files, to which you move the desktop, my documents and application data folders - that way even though the system will be fresh, most program settings and all your saved files will still be intact, after restoring it.
Ideally, you'd want the OS partition to be small - <10GB - and make a separate one for the swap file. This would speedup the backup and restore process and make the size of the backup much smaller
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