query about keyloggers

Hi Sheena

Not very technical at all for you, in that the answer is YES, the options you gave are how keyloggers can get onto your PC, they can come in email attachments, infected webpages and done in person by someone using your PC without your knowledge.

Innocent downloads, well this depends where you download from, if its a well known safe download site like Majorgeeks, then no (unless you are actually downloading a keylogger as they do have serious side to them over malicious) but if downloading from an unknown site or off P2P (Torrents) then your open to getting anything in those downloads, while many maybe fine, the risk and why many are infected as that new movie or album on p2p may not be all its cracked upto be and maybe hiding malware etc

Here is some info on How to Protect yourself from malware!


Hope this helps some

 

Hi

Many antimalware applications (Malwarebytes for example) can find many of these but not all, so best way to make sure yoru PC is free of them is to run the Read and Run Me guide that is a sticky in the malware forum and attach the logs for the malware experts to see, but would be worth starting a new thread in malware for this as I thought your question was just background over thinking you have a keylogger infection.

 

Hi

Not that many clues as by the very nature of keyloggers, they hide themselves very well, if you have a software firewall installed like Comodo, PCTools, ZoneAlarm or one from an Internet Security package like Norton or Macafee, then they tend to flag up an application wanting outgoing internet access, so you could look through the application list of the firewall to see if there is an application that is not known.

Run a scan with the likes of Malwarebytes its good at finding alot of unwanteds.