RE: Hackers please help

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 10:16:14 MST

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    BillK wrote:

    > Spycop is recommended if you suspect keyboard logging software has
    > been installed. Quote: 'SpyCop is the recognized leader in spyware
    removal and spyware
    > detection...."

    Thanks for your help. Is this a quote from Spycop marketing literature?
    Or is it from some reputable third party reviewer? I already have the
    trial version of SpyCop, which only scans a percentage of files. I am
    thinking of buying the full version of it to do a full scan, if indeed
    it is the "recognized leader" in the field.

    > But people need physical access to your computer to install a keyboard
    > logging package,

    To my great horror I have learned from my own web research over the last
    48 hours that this is not actually so. Certain keylogging programs can
    be installed remotely via executable email attachments, and managed
    remotely as well, completely unbeknownst to the subject under
    surveillance. See for example the iSpyNOW product at
    http://www.spy-software-planet.com/ispynow.htm. I believe there are
    other such products as well.

    As I've written, I know better than to execute email attachments from
    strangers. However I might very well have once executed such an
    attachment from a former female friend who might now be trying to
    disrupt my personal life. That is actually the best case scenario. I
    hope I am merely the victim of a woman scorned.

    -gts



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