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08-31-2008
|  | Master Sergeant | | | Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 88
Reputation: 41 | | | So I clicked a Keylogger
What shall I do?
I suppose there's a lot of genius ppl here, who are capable of helping me out 
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08-31-2008
|  | Master Sergeant | | | Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 107
Reputation: 16 Level up: 58%, 298 Points needed |    | | | Dude reformat as soon as you can. It will remove the keylogger. |
08-31-2008
|  | Contributor | | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Not here
Posts: 773
Reputation: 124 Level up: 61%, 315 Points needed | | | | use some virus scanners to make sure everything is gone... the virus scanner u use wil also give a name of the infection found U could use google to find out more about it and maybe some extra programs to remove it all..then change your passwords...all of them. |
08-31-2008
| | Banned | | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: China Man's Hideout.
Posts: 697
Reputation: 336 | | | First, Get a few free virus scanners, because just one might not find it. Then, find and delete the keylogger, and change all of your passwords, please tell everyone what the keylogger might have been from so that we don't get it. |
08-31-2008
|  | New User | | | Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 57
Reputation: 8 Level up: 96%, 20 Points needed | | | Isn't it bad to have more then one virus scanner? I remember I had to reformat because I had 2 different virus scanners 
But yeah, just get a free virus scanner like AVG or something, but honestly you should think about getting a decent virus scanner, like one you have to pay for, but just crack it (I use NOD32) |
08-31-2008
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Posts: 263
Reputation: 106 Level up: 89%, 79 Points needed | | | | well if I were you, I would get the file that keylogged ya, use virustotal.com to scan it using loads of virus scanners, google the infection name, and find the program best suited to remove it |
08-31-2008
| | Contributor | | | Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 103
Reputation: 82 Level up: 56%, 311 Points needed | | | | |
08-31-2008
|  | Knight-Lieutenant | | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: USA
Posts: 366
Reputation: 35 Level up: 67%, 234 Points needed | | | | If you typed any of your passwords while you were keylogged, change them via the onscreen keyboard IMMEDIATELY and then reformat your hard drive, you'll be better safe reformatting than virus scanning. |
08-31-2008
|  | Contributor | | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Noodle bowl
Posts: 881
Reputation: 241 Level up: 12%, 972 Points needed | | | | do a system recovery to before you clicked on the keylogger
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09-01-2008
|  | Sergeant Major | | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Perth, Australia
Posts: 159
Reputation: 18 Level up: 38%, 313 Points needed | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Serez  do a system recovery to before you clicked on the keylogger | This,
but I think it's called System Restore? ^_^
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09-01-2008
|  | Master Sergeant | | | Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 80
Reputation: 45 Level up: 85%, 77 Points needed | | | | |
09-01-2008
|  | Sergeant | | | Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 50
Reputation: 13 | | | Virus scans can be fairly unreliable, I'd reccomend a system restore ATLEAST. | |
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