Spyware taking Screen Shots of Gmail

parrotmania · Nov 17, 2012

Within the past week or so, I have noticed that while I am writing an email "someone", definitely not me, is taking screen shots of my gmail page, as I am typing an email.

I will see a cursor point in a star shape or rifle scope shape (not sure what to call it) appear on the page, then it starts taking screen shots. If I have written a lot "they" will even shrink the text on the page so that all of the email text can be captured. Sometimes the text size will change 3 or 4 times. Sometimes "they" reduce text size to very tiny, so they can fit all of the email I am typing. Pretty gutsy, not subtle stuff going on here.

At various points there is a small blue swirl moving that is visible on the page, where the cursor icon had been, that looks like a "working" or "in progress" icon. I cannot get rid of the cursor or swirl when it is doing this.

I have a friend that just told me yesterday she was getting MAILER-DAEMON's. Also, I received an email from her that looked very suspicious. I didn't open it, but could see it was probably spam, had a link to an address with no subject. I put it in the trash without opening.

My laptop: Lenovo, Win7 Home Premium, Intel Core i7 2nd gen, 6G RAM.

Thanks, in advance :wave

Kestrel13! · Nov 19, 2012

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parrotmania · Nov 28, 2012

Ok, so I ran One Key Recovery. I still am not confident my laptop is safe.

I ran OKR and disabled some services, via services.msc. I then went to the defrag tool and saw this strange file, located under "Disk: C and D. I don't recall seeing this type of file, under C and D on any computer I have had. Isn't it supposed to be F or nothing?

I attached a screen shot of what I found suspicious. I found it in the registry, as you can see in the screenshot.

Also find this registry key suspicious: C:\Program Files\Intel\bin\iWrap.exe /CMD:7 %1

Thanks

Kestrel13! · Nov 29, 2012

Can you not just follow what I asked you to do above and attach all of the logs I DID request? Thanks.

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Spyware taking Screen Shots of Gmail

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