How can I tell if I have a keylogger in my computer?

Question

And if I do, how do I get rid of it?

Answer 1

There are quite a few free anti-spyware programs available to find and remove keyloggers! I suggest that users should use at least 3 different products to regularly scan their systems. Most of these products are free for non-commercial use versions that have disabled some features, usually the active resident protection.

Spybot Search and Destroy is an excellent program for scanning for and removing spyware. The resident modules can be a bit buggy, but the extra included tools such as startup manger are great! http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

Adaware is another good scanner and removal tool but it has no resident abilities at all in the free version. http://free.lavasoft.com

Ewido is fairly new as a free spyware scanner, but it comes from the people who brought us AVG, so I expect good things: http://free.grisoft.com

Microsoft has their free scanner avalable for download although many advise that this tool is a bit permissive of questionable programs and add ons! Defender does offer a couple of options the others do not have such as scheduled scan and a resident process for active protection. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

A new player is on the scene with SUPERAntiSpware. I was fairly impressed with the deep scans performed by this product, and it found some inactive files with spyware embedded,that the others had missed. I will add this to the list of tools in the arsenal and see how it really performs on active spyware. If you want to try it you can download it here: http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

Once you have your system cleaned up of all the spyware, then you should protect yourself against new infestations. Spyware Blaster does a very good job and does not use up any system resourses in doing so. Works with both IE and Firefox browsers: This Download can be found at http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Answer 2

Keyloggers can usually be caught with malware scanners such as Ewido, spybot search and destroy, lavasoft etc.

Here is a link to ewido which is a very good program free.grisoft.com

If you believe you have a keylogger on your workstations I would disable startup to ensure that it is not loading up (just in case the scanner do not detect it).

Go to start-run type in MSCONFIG
Click on the startup tab
Disable all the startup.

This will kill the startup, this way you know for a fact there is no keylogger running on your machine. Good Luck.

Answer 3

How can I tell if I have a keylogger in my computer?
You scan your computer with an Anti-Spyware program

And if I do, how do I get rid of it?
If the Anti-Spyware program detects it, it will ask you to delete it, do so.

Click below to download a free Anti-Spyware from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&displaylang=en

Answer 4

Spybot Search & Destroy, Adaware, and Microsoft Defender

Answer 5

Download and run ewido. It is very good at finding keyloggers.

http://www.ewido.net/en/

Answer 6

Stop friggin' spamming, you posted this question already.