Re: Spyware question

From: Anonymous (anonymous@anonymous.anonymous)
Date: 02/02/02 

Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 13:12:11 -0500
From: Anonymous <anonymous@anonymous.anonymous>

Does Spyware report also your newsgroups activity?

Jerry Nicean wrote:
>
> > I was wondering whether keystroke logging software, the kind that you find
> > in many spyware programs, can be used to remotely access a PC and thereby
> > retrieve the keystrokes from that PC. In other words, if there is no
> spyware
> > on a PC, can someone potentially hack into that PC through a continuously
> > connected Internet connection and retrieve keystrokes remotely from that
> PC
>
> There are a number of snooper programs out there that perform keylogging and
> allow a remote connection to access and retrieve the keystroke logs. One
> such snooper that comes to mind is XLog
> (http://www.gmgdesign.com/products/). I doubt that XLog would be considered
> Spyware by Ad-Aware or other Anti-Spyware programs. I could be wrong on
> that. But there are many such programs that can be used to remotely
> retrieve keylogging data. In order for this to happen to you though,
> someone would either need to have access to your PC to install the
> keylogging program/server (it only takes a few seconds) or they would need
> to get you to run a program on your PC (this is pretty easy to do to -- all
> they would have to do is email you a program and have you run it -- then
> it's in.) Once it is on your PC they can remotely monitor you and retrieve
> the data, as long as their is a connection for them to use to get to you.
> If someone was able to hack into your PC remotely and write files to your
> hard drive, they could get it installed that way too.
>
> There was one snooper program I have played with before that you can attach
> to another exe file. Then you can email the exe file to someone and have
> them run it. It may play some cartoon or some dumb game, so it appears to
> just be some harmless program, but the snooper is installed in the
> background. Very nasty. I don't remember the name of it though.
>
> The term "spyware" refers to software that sends information about your
> surfing habits to its Web site---the spyware that is often built into free
> downloads from the Web and transmits information in the background as you
> move around the Web. These usually don't have keyloggers. The term
> "snooper" is usually used to refer to a program that logs keystrokes, takes
> screenshots, keeps tracks of what web sites are visited, etc. I guess it is
> possible that the advertising/marketing type of spyware may give someone a
> backdoor to do some keystroke logging, but I have not heard of such spyware.
>
> -jerrynicean
> www.trapware.com

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