Keyloggers

[Gene]

Originally Posted by spirit4711

Me too.

and me too! It is at least worth of a serious and in depth discussion. Another suggestion is get another computer of your own if the computer is owned by your significant other.

[Gene]

Originally Posted by seanner689

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.

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by seeker5

My solution would be to remove the significant other who would do such a thing. But that's just me.

Thanks seeker,
I agree as well. I'm not sure if it's my place to suggest it though. It's not a healthy relationship from what I'm hearing (I'm also getting information from a third party as well). I have said it's not a healthy way to be living...

[Michelle]

You are a really good friend to look into this for her.

It does sound complicated though, and my intuition says there must be a simpler way of dealing with the situation. The complicatedness and drama of it all just sound like really bad news.

If she is planning to leave soon anyway, using another computer or none at all for the time being sounds reasonable to me. I mean, how hard can it be to check one's email at a neighbor's place or internet cafe in the U.S.?

[Lawliet]

Can you give more information about the keylogger? If you have it.

One possibility is that you might be able to suspend the keylogger thread(s) so that it's not dead, but not operational. Perhaps have a program that suspends it/them temporarily and then has the option to resume so that there's just a small gap in the logs which should be unnoticeable.

[Brutha]

Using a linux live CD might be a good way to get around a software based keylogger.

[Gene]

Originally Posted by Brutha

Using a linux live CD might be a good way to get around a software based keylogger.

That is an excellent solution to the problem. I think I will file it in my tool box to recomend when I am asked how to make sure they are not being recorded by a key logger.

[iDreamCatcher]

Install Sun VirtualBox and under it install another OS - it could be Windows or Linux.
This way you will be able to boot your little private Windows under main Windows, have separate login and absolutely no way to peek into activity into this "little" Windows from outer Windows.
I often use this approach within restrictive corporate environments when I don't want to leave any cookies or traces of activity within "main" Windows.
I am not 100% sure though that main keylogger's logging won't be able to intercept keystrokes within sub-windows.
A while ago I created a little program that notifies about any file system activity on disk - so you may use similar approach to detect where and whether keylogger is active and intercepting keystrokes.

Gleb