i believe that keylogger programs keep saving every keystroke they record to hard disk so they must be accessing the hard disk very often, thus putting extra stress on it and decreasing its life
2006-12-12 04:40:25 · 4 answers · asked by Rishabh Singla 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
No, the hard drive is constantly accessing anyway, for cache, data instruction, etc., and it's also constantly spinning.
It's not crunching gigabytes of data, just bytes (since keylogging is a fairly basic task).
2006-12-12 04:45:03 · answer #1 · answered by Prakash V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude...... a keylogger putting "stress" on a hard drive is a silly notion. where did you come up with it? I keylogger program is no more dangerous than a Word document my friend. The only danger of a keylogger is your parents finding out where you've been and who you're talking to ;) A hard drive is always active on a computer with one program or another runnning and logs being kept and so forth. So sorry you can't go tell your parents that the program is dangerous for the computer! ;)
2006-12-12 12:45:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. If your computer is running, the hard disks are running anyway, so the data for the keylogger just gets queued up with everything else. Individual letters are so negligible when it comes to size that there is no basis for such a theory.
2006-12-12 12:47:11 · answer #3 · answered by cs_gmlynarczyk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very little, in actual fact. They write the log in memory and dump it to the hard drive every so often.
2006-12-12 12:45:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋