On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 19:54:20 -0400, steve_b@yahoo.com wrote:

>hi im in a situation where its possible a keylogger was secretly put
>on my computer..possibly imbedded in a music or picture file sent to
>me. there have been many strange coincidences...it would be a
>keylogger that sends the info out, as no one has access to my home
>computer...anyways, i d/l the trial version of anti keylogger but it
>found nothing. one thing that is strange is that around the time i may
>have got the keylogger(i think i know who would have sent it to me) my
>computer stopped shutting down properly. its windows me- when i turn
>it on, it always says iimproper shutdown etc. do you want me to check
>files etc.. anyways seriously- i need some advice- i am stressed out
>from this.

SpyBot S&D targets key loggers. http://security.kolla.de
Hijack This may be used as well.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html

HTH




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