Removing a Keylogger

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* 1. What is a Keylogger?
* 2. Am I infected?
* 3. Removing a Keylogger​

1. What is a Keylogger?

A keylogger builds a log of everything you type your keyboard, and can then be reviewed by hackers. Initially keyloggers were meant to serve for companies and datasaving, but just like the DDoS'ing trend people found out how to abuse keyloggers and infect other peoples computers by making them download their infected programs, or installing them into scripts, and in that way receive all the information they type on their keyboard.

2. Am I infected?

Theres many ways to get infected with a Keylogger. The most common way is infecting a program and tricking the target to download and run the infected program.
Another common way is by editing the scripts on a website. Everytime you visit a website, your computer will have to download and load the material on the website, and if the hacker is skilled enough he would be able to edit this piece of code and put in his Keylogggers script. And this way infect your computer without you knowing it(Trojan).
This is a common thing on forums, where people will find fake hoax messages in their inbox linked to a site.

3. Removing a Keylogger

If you think you've been infected by a Keylogger, I suggest you don't log into important websites or other data untill it is fixed. If a bypass is needed in hurry there is an alternative.

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Click on Start -> Go to All Programs -> Click on Accessories ->  Select Accessibility ->Click on On-Screen Keyboard

A cyber-keyboard should appear on your screen, use it to login where ever you need to. Keyloggers are only able to log what you type and not what you click .

But onto the main issue, If you have been infected by a keylogger it will have a process name.Open your taskmanager (CTR+ALT+DEL) Now go to Processes tab and click on "Show processes from all users"
You should now see a window with alot of processes running along with what user its running on, how much CPU it requires etc.
You need to find the Keyloggers process, it will mostly require a minor amount of CPU so you should put the highest CPU programs on top and mostly those are the most obvious ones like Internet,Windows Media Player etc..

When you have found the keylogger's process click 'exit process'.
You are "save" now for only the time being, as soon as you reboot your computer the keylogger will be back running. Go to 'Start > Run' and type 'msconfig' a box should appear, go into 'Start' or 'startup' and go through the list and see if you could find the process again. If you do, remove the tick, click 'Apply', 'OK' and reboot your computer.

The Keylogger should be eliminated from your standard programs opened upon booting your computer, yet it hasn't been deleted from your computer. A virus-scan is highly suggestable, I myself use one called "TrendMicro".
You should now have deactivated, and removed the Keylogger.



I hope I've helped you with this guide,

Greetings,

Mr.Business

 

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