Keylogger detected
Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 7:06 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jonathan
(338 messages posted)
What within windows would give a keylogger reading? Kaspersky Internet Security 2010
(KIS) when it was updated from 2009 detected a keylogger ('Kernel Mode Memory Patch').
(I have seen the Kaspersky forum regarding this and no solution is given). At the
same time the Vista security centre was automatically turned off on a re-boot - a
known problem with Vista. Working with this detection of the keylogger for a while.
I discover the problem with the Vista Security Centre was turning on the windows
firewall, leaving two firewalls running! Even though once the second firewall was
turned off. After some 11 days - the longest gap so far - the keylogger was eventually
detected again. (It is also worth noting that this keylogger was also detected a
second way, this time mentioning a driver in \System 32. This was a bit of software
left over from Threat Fire. Using the removal tool got ride of this).
Now turning to HiJackThis. I also discovered that some Nortons software remained
uninstalled. Again using the removal tool to get ride of this, where this time, it
eventually failed to stop the keylogger from being detected.
Along with KIS 2010. I have 6 other pieces of software that detect malware when ran.
It is worth noting that none of these detected anything and all are up to date.
What else within windows could be giving this reading of a keylogger? (I know other
incompletely uninstalled software may cause this, particularly other malware detection
software).
Can I considered this reading as a false positive? But this has now been going on
for nearly two months.
I have also installed keystroke Interference software, that for free, works with
IE and Firefox.
Wikipedia mentions there are 4 types of keyloggers. As KIS 2010 mentions the object
as in the kernel. Is my protection any good for this?
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