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Old 10-29-2009, 07:43 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by seanner689 View Post
Maybe I'm just a tech newbie, but can't you just figure out what the name of the application is and end that program in the (ctrl+alt+del) task manager when you want to do something private? and then just reboot the computer (or manually restart the application) afterwards so that the program boots up again?
It usually is not as simple as that. Key loggers are programed to hide very well and not be easy to discover using the method you suggested.
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