Comments on: Keylogger spying at work on the rise, survey says

Companies may have the best antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall software, but that hasn't stopped rise in spyware.

[Fireweaver]

Another "scare" article with little info

This is another in a series of many articles that hype the scare of keyloggers. In this article keyloggers are lumped with "spyware that gathers information" being on the rise.
Anyone that runs Spybot or Adaware can tell you that a website's cookies can often be counted as an "unwanted information mining" tool. This article's alarm falls flat because whenever it starts talking about the magnitude of increase it falls back on "spyware" rather than "keyloggers".

As a security team member at my work I AM concerned about keyloggers and rootkits. There are no lack of articles on the dangers posed by these but little concrete info on exactly how often they're found. Indeed with rootkits detecting them is often hyped as being difficult at best, which leads you to wonder if they may be on several of your machines or if it's just another vapor-threat to get you to read the same articles over and over again.

[JTMON]

Delusional?

Are you insane? This article falls flat because they don't tell you how often keyloggers are found. As a member of your security team you shouldn't be looking to cnet for your answer. If you were half the security guy you claim to be you would already be on the mailing lists that let you know that information as well as having experienced the rise of malicious software this last year.

You sit there and type arguments about spyware vs. keyloggers and how they mix the two..ever think one contains the other? Either way your job is the same, get rid of it. Sorry to be a snot but I think you are rediculous arguing one name vs. the other and needing a link or a site that shows how often they come up in order to believe this. Your own experience should tell you this, if it's not then you obviously aren't fixing enough machines or you think that adaware and spybot remove rootkits, both wrong.

[mssoot]

Cnet - has 123 you can download

Cnet downloads has 123 listed you can download from them!!!

[baswwe]

not illegal to install on your own machine

hehe

just don't use my machine with your passwords or i will know them fewl

[Jim Hubbard]

Buy software and hardware keyloggers at....

Micro Center. The software is (i think) $39 and the hardware keylogger is $99.

They have become mainstream. I wonder if Micro Center has any liability for selling them to underage customers who misuse them.

Scary thing is that any almost government worker could slap one on the bosses PC and never get caught.

Hee hee heeeee.....people are stupid.....