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Trojan remover/ keylogger remover

14:08 / 18.06.03

Can anyone reccommend me software to remove a keylogger or Trojan from from hard drive?

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:59 / 18.06.03

I've heard good things about SpyCop, and also Trojan Scan... and there's Lockdown as well, which sells a bunch of anti-surveillance systems.

Meanwhile, if this is over offical business (your job), I'd suggest using their computing power to track down this guy and, if you have a corporate lawyer, have him deliver a "cease and desist". Plus report him to your various mail providers, of course. In the meantime, try changing your passwords from another computer on your webmail accounts?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:25 / 18.06.03

No practical advice, just a big "Fucking hell, dude!"

Andrew C*** passing himself of as Haus

15:35 / 18.06.03

Ummh...Without kicking up a fuss, can I ask why my previous response to this thread (and the topic abstract) was removed?

My original post read:

"Fucking hell Ellis. What a cunt!"

16:12 / 18.06.03

For removal of Spyware and some Trojans, I recommend both Ad-Aware, and, SpyBot, both of which can also be found - along with a whole host of other removal/cleaning tools - at this site.

Keyloggers are a different matter. If you suspect a keylogger, then your first line of defense is CTRL+ALT+DEL from the desktop to see what processes are running. The golden rule is query anything you don't immediately recognise by punching the process name into Google and letting it tell you what the thing does. If you know there are keyloggers running, then the easiest way to disable them is trace their directory on the hard drive and either shut them down or delete them outright. Anti-Keylogging software is readily available, but TBH I've yet to see any free editions which actually do a decent job.

Feel free to PM me if you need any more advice

We're The Great Old Ones Now

16:20 / 18.06.03

CK: Not being a moderator in this forum, I can't answer for this case. If you posted a response which was that pointless and foul-mouthed in one of the fora where I am a moderator, however, I'd almost certainly approve a moderation action to remove it. Do you feel it was important to the thread in some way?

Ellis: I use Spybot Search & Destroy alongside Tracks Eraser Pro and Eraser. I really hate the idea of little programmes ferreting around inside my computer sending data elsewhere, especially because I can't break myself of the habit of using ideas keywords as the names of my work files - so you could get a fair idea of my nascent fictional work just by reading them. Not that anyone would really want to, but all the same...

Norton Firewall (which can be a bugger to install) also has a function which allows you to keep track of which applications are accessing the internet - a truly remarkable number of them do so without telling you, which can be very annoying when you want faster download times for large files, especially with a dial-up connection.

Andrew C*** passing himself of as Haus

16:45 / 18.06.03

Not important, no, but certainly sympathetic. I thought the conversation was the one fora we were allowed to get away with being pointless/off-topic, (although I'd argue I was being neither,) and, if we felt like, foul-mouthed, without worrying about the consequences. I've seen the word "cunt" used on more than one occasion on barbelith, in any case. (Unfortunately, usually thrown in my general direction.)

Would you have removed Mordant's post, on these same grounds?

Anyway, end of. It's not a big deal. (This is me behaving myself, see?)

We're The Great Old Ones Now

16:57 / 18.06.03

[mh]

CK:

Ahhh, I see now. The Abstract is more revealing than the thread itself. Without looking at the Abstract, a moderator could well imagine that your post was just an abuse of Ellis, see? All I saw was a totally gratuitous one-liner. Mordant, by contrast, worded her post in such a way that it's obvious she's issuing sympathy - though for what, I couldn't have told you.

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Ellis, it seems to me you need to identify the actual programme on your computer, not just remove it - that way you could isolate this software and retain it in case you need to use it as evidence if this becomes more severe.

Andrew C*** passing himself of as Haus

17:06 / 18.06.03

I thought that might be it.

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:22 / 18.06.03

Or it might be that, since you have in the past attempted to obtain Barbelith passwords by devious means, the commiseration when somebody finds themselves on the receiving end of similar, albeit more technologically ept, password-hacking seems somewhat *unlike* good behaviour.

Basically.

Andrew C*** passing himself of as Haus

18:43 / 18.06.03

Thank you Haus.