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My daughter has just had a break up with her partner and she has asked
me to format and reinstall all software - it seems the partner
installed a spy type programme on her computer that tracks all
activity from the keyboard.

Is there a way to locate and remove this type of programme without
going to the extreme of formatting, and then reinstalling all the
software?

John <> wrote in news59kzwyzpups.l58mued0qb6l$.dlg@
40tude.net:

> My daughter has just had a break up with her partner and she has asked
> me to format and reinstall all software - it seems the partner
> installed a spy type programme on her computer that tracks all
> activity from the keyboard.
>
> Is there a way to locate and remove this type of programme without
> going to the extreme of formatting, and then reinstalling all the
> software?
>
Google "KeyLogger Detection" and you will find many programs that will
remove it. Personally, I'd run more than one of the selections several
times to insure the remnants have been removed. Don't forget to check for
suspicious little devices hooked onto the keyboard cable or the like.
Also check the email settings or scripts to insure duplicate messages
aren't being sent to unknown parties. That should do it!

HTH

John wrote:
>
> My daughter has just had a break up with her partner and she has asked
> me to format and reinstall all software - it seems the partner
> installed a spy type programme on her computer that tracks all
> activity from the keyboard.
>
> Is there a way to locate and remove this type of programme without
> going to the extreme of formatting, and then reinstalling all the
> software?

It depends on how advanced the keylogger is. In other words I
subcontracted to a private investigator once and the keylogger we used
was disquised as a perfectly looking legit windows .dll with the same
date/timestamp etc. as the rest of them. If somebody put that one on
my pc I'd never know it. The data directory was hidden deep also and you
could put the data directory anyplace you wanted.

On the other side of the coin there are freebie ones that are easily
seen in the run or run services or even startup. Then you got the
hardware based keyloggers

John wrote:
>

The boy/girl friend caught her cheating ?

> My daughter has just had a break up with her partner and she has asked
> me to format and reinstall all software - it seems the partner
> installed a spy type programme on her computer that tracks all
> activity from the keyboard.
>
> Is there a way to locate and remove this type of programme without
> going to the extreme of formatting, and then reinstalling all the
> software?

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 03:51:53 GMT, Thagor wrote:

> Google "KeyLogger Detection" and you will find many programs that will
> remove it. Personally, I'd run more than one of the selections several
> times to insure the remnants have been removed. Don't forget to check for
> suspicious little devices hooked onto the keyboard cable or the like.
> Also check the email settings or scripts to insure duplicate messages
> aren't being sent to unknown parties. That should do it!
>
> HTH

Thanks for the pointers - it gave me the basis to locate both the
programme used (Perfect Keylogger) and the means of removal.
Again, many thanks.

John.

John <> wrote in
news:ie9k0zd8dzup$.vjmlzsj91duk$.:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 03:51:53 GMT, Thagor wrote:
>
>> Google "KeyLogger Detection" and you will find many programs that
>> will remove it. Personally, I'd run more than one of the selections
>> several times to insure the remnants have been removed. Don't forget
>> to check for suspicious little devices hooked onto the keyboard cable
>> or the like. Also check the email settings or scripts to insure
>> duplicate messages aren't being sent to unknown parties. That should
>> do it!
>>
>> HTH
>
> Thanks for the pointers - it gave me the basis to locate both the
> programme used (Perfect Keylogger) and the means of removal.
> Again, many thanks.
>
> John.
>
>
Glad to help and good luck with the task.