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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Keyloggers are common, often they are disguised as other files you download and with the popularity of torrents, they are often hidden in the torrents or made as fake torrents. Luckily those get spotted and filtered out by the nature of people sharing everything pretty quickly but sometimes they remain. If you run the program by accident, it sets up a keylogger on your computer and tries to find or open ports whereby it can establish an IRC connection to send out the log of all your keystrokes to steal account numbers, passwords, etc.
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hmm, ok that's what I am most afraid of. So are there free progs out there that can block this? Or something I can set up in windows firewall or something to prevent it? Gonna go do some research. Thanks H&L.
*edit* OK in just a few minutes research I found this:
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Keylogger prevention
Currently there is no easy way to prevent keylogging. In the future it is believed that software with secure I/O will be protected from keyloggers.[citation needed] Until then, however, the best strategy is to use common sense and a combination of several methods.
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But they do go on to tell you some of the methods to use, most of it stuff most people are running on their machines already, such as firewalls and anti-spyware utilities, so that's cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging
(wiki isn't the most reliable source on most things, but this seems decent enough)