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Are there ways of detecting a keylogger or mac artifacts left behind for a keylogger present on a system 9 comments share save hide report 80 Upvoted This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Sort by best.

Generally you would use a combination of anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spyware and anti-rootkit applications.

You can make an image of your hard drive and scan it with Windows based scanners as well.

You may catch a spy who isnt particularly sophisticated or careful and is using a well known spyware such as Spector Pro.

I know of Spy-Reveal and Spy-Cop which are both written by the same individual programmer but I dont see how one poorly-funded individual could possibly keep up with the hundreds of malware apps out there changing every day.

There is also the very expensive Wetstone Gargoyle which does a fair job at an impossible task.

Check For Keylogger On Plus There Are

There are hundreds of different commercial keylogging software applications readily available and inexpensive, plus there are less known and better written ones from large entities such as foreign governments (and our government), large corporations and rogue individual hackers.

Not to mention if a specific entity were to go after a specific target they could contract for a custom keylogger to be written that wouldnt be known to any scanners.

Some keystroke loggers surveillance software uses a technique called a root-kit which means the malware takes over your operating system and subverts it so it can hide by lying to scanning software about what is on the disk (Nope, no files in this directory).

There are also hardware keystroke loggers that are tiny gadgets installed inside your computer to monitor the keyboard.

These cannot be detected by software at all since they are not software.

Maybe you should try social engineering: purposely type something highly inflammatory but false and try to catch your adversary knowing your fake facts.

Good luck 3 Share Report Save level 1 5 years ago To detect a keylogger on Mac, there are several ways to help.

Hope it can help.

Step 1 Open the Activity Monitor to check for unknown process.

This system tool will allow you to view the programs (processes) currently running on your computer.

Step 2 Check and Research any unfamiliar processes running in your Activity Monitor.

Critical system processes sometimes have unrecognizable names, however, and keyloggers may have a name that sounds legitimate.

Step 3 Download and install a mac keylogger detector or another software firewall.

This type of mac software alerts you when another program tries to connect to the Internet.

It will detect a keylogger for mac before it sends information over the Internet, and allow you to block it.

How about I suspect my ex-spousebusiness competitoroffshore hacker is committing a felony by intercepting my electronic communications, how do I detect, document and trace this 0 Share Report Save level 2 5 years ago What is the suspected exfiltration channel Insert detection tool to alert on the flow of information in such communication channel.

That is, for examples if it is network connectivity, capture network traffic; if it is physical access, monitor ports.

Share Report Save level 1 TheMacMan -7 points 5 years ago 0 children level 2 5 years ago This isnt anti forensics, bucko.

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