keylogger

Aobo Keylogger Standard for MacOS is a keylogger and spyware package. Upgrading from the free download to a licensed version will set you back $79.95 (discounts for multiple licenses). Aobo Keylogger Standard is available from several download sites but not the App Store.

The main features of Aobo Keylogger Standard are its ability to record every keystroke, Web site, and application executed on the Mac. As a keylogger it can record everything that is typed, including chat conversations, and it can record every URL visited. A automated screen capture utility can grab a screen image at a predetermined interval. … Read more

Keyloggers are programs that hide in the background and record a user's every keystroke, mouse click, and screen image, letting others (such as the boss) see exactly what that user has been doing while at the computer. Long used in high-security applications, keyloggers can help parents, employers, and others who are responsible for others' behavior (and, more to the point, misbehavior) by clearly showing which Web sites and programs a specific user accessed at a specific time. Spyrix Free Keylogger can put that power in your hands. This easy-to-use freeware logs keystrokes and online activity, takes screenshots, and monitors … Read more

Keystroke loggers are programs that log every key that is pressed on your system as well as every mouse click and other activities, usually secretly in the background. They're common in corporate and private networks where security and liability far outweigh privacy, but they're also useful for seeing who's been doing what on the family PC. Silent Keylogger Free Edition is a free version of a premium tool. It logs keystrokes, monitors applications and Internet use, and captures screenshots. The freeware sacrifices password protection, encryption, invisible mode, and other security-related features as well as some network and … Read more

In just a handful of days, a startup company named Carrier IQ has been subjected to extraordinary public vilification, with reports accusing it of making a "rootkit keylogger" that "creeps out everyone" or is the "rootkit of all evil."

The only problem, which is always a risk when a public lynching takes place, is that Carrier IQ appears to be not guilty of the charges lodged against it.

The most serious charge against Carrier IQ, a venture capital-funded startup in Mountain View, Calif., that makes diagnostic software for carriers, has been that it records … Read more

You probably know that keyloggers are programs that capture a computer user's keystrokes, most often surreptitiously. As the name suggests, IwantSoft's Free Keylogger is a freeware keylogging app. It can track and record keystrokes, clipboard activity, and Net surfing on individual PCs or networks (with administrative access) without users being able to see it or disable it. Of course, you need access to a user's PC to install Free Keylogger, and there are ethical and potential legal issues involved when you monitor someone else's computer use. But for parents who need to know what their kids … Read more

A virus that keeps a log of what people type has found a persistent foothold in the computers that pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada use to remotely control the U.S. military's unmanned drone aircraft, Wired reported today.

It's not clear whether the virus was deliberately aimed at the military computers or whether it got there through the general spread of infectious malware, "but the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech's computers," Wired reported, citing three unnamed sources.

The Defense Department declined to comment on the matter.

Wired … Read more

Periodically I get e-mails from readers wondering about various viruses and malware on OS X, especially given recent malware attempts like MacDefender that have disguised phishing schemes as fake antivirus software that scares users into installing it. Besides phishing schemes, viruses, and worms, some readers have asked about keyloggers and whether or not they are legitimate threats on OS X.

Malware for PC systems comes in all shapes and sizes in order to steal information, wreak havoc, or take control of systems, be it in the form of a phishing scheme like the MacDefender scare, as worms or viruses (of … Read more

The Samsung laptop keylogger scare turns out to have been just that--a bad scare. That doesn't mean it's not a good idea to know how to remove a keylogger if you think somebody is recording your keystrokes. In this video, we show you how to check for one, and how to remove it using Security Task Manager.

Samsung has been cleared of false allegations lodged by a security specialist who claimed that keylogging software was installed on two of the company's laptops.

It turns out that a misfiring antivirus program called VIPRE, made by the GFI Software company, falsely identified a Microsoft Windows directory as malicious software.

GFI publicly apologized for the problem with VIPRE today in a post explaining that the directory used by Windows' Slovenian language files--C:\WINDOWS\SL--is the same path used by the StarLogger keylogger.

"At some point several years after the original detection was written, Windows Live started using that … Read more