How can someone send me Key Logger when i didn't click accept anything?
June 30, 2009 by Parenting
How can someone send me Key Logger when i didn't click accept anything?
This is the second time i found a Key Logger on my computer I found it earlier before I format my computer I knew I'd been hacked but I just formatted my computer and I didn't click accept anything I hardly chatted with anyone how can he/she send Key Logger to my computer. Is it can be send if they know my IP or something? Is there another method for them to send it?
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http://www.employee-monitoring.net/keylo...
Add to his xlnt advice:
A handy arrangement is 'dual browser' session:
You can have as many different browsers open as you want at the same time , without significant slowdowns (if the sites aren't overly 'robust').
Attacks from the internet, using 'blended' methods are becoming more pronounced & Windows users are especially vulnerable due to the systems flexibility which permits remote machines to enter & access other 3rd party applications on your machine and get it to do something it was not intended to do.
This is especially true of using browsers as 'launchpads' for payload delivery. IE, being deeply woven into Windows, is a prime target, and makes using Firefox, with 'noScript' add on even more urgent.
Use Firefox for general & everyday surfing needs, especially to sites you don't know anything about. Depending on how many plug-in's and add-on's you "hang" onto FF, it's faster than IE, & inherently safer.
Download site: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Try viewing a site with FF first, and if it does not allow the interaction you require, switch & use IE (via "copy" the URL from FF & "paste" into IE) but only when it's absolutely necessary; or to use 'Active X' or 'Flash' scripting: Use these at your own peril.
Flip back to FF when finished.
Special note for both browsers: "Logged In" sites must be "logged out" when finished, to terminate 'session cookies'.
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Note: Current threats include 'Antivirus 2009' or variants.
Because architecture of the Internet (notably 'Flash' scripting), vulnerabilities are readily exploited in Internet Explorer, & it is now >>urgent<< that you use Firefox with current 'NoScript' add-on, which will prevent "opacity-based attacks".
NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...
This dual set-up will drastically reduce web based threats to your system, with low system overhead.
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And for even greater security, without limiting functionality of either browser, get "Sandboxie": This runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
Use it for: *Secure Web Browsing* Running your Web browser under the protection of Sandboxie means that all malicious software downloaded by the browser is trapped in the sandbox and can be discarded trivially.
*Enhanced Privacy* Browsing history, cookies, and cached temporary files collected while Web browsing stay in the sandbox and don't leak into Windows.
*Secure E-mail* Viruses and other malicious software that might be hiding in your email can't break out of the sandbox and can't infect your real system.
Not overly difficult to use, but don't assume you can do anything with total impunity: it does have limitations.
Listen to 'Security Now' #174 for more details (http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm)
Not for 64 bit Vista.
Recommended by Steve Gibson (Security Now & GRC).
http://www.sandboxie.com/