it belongs to a client with little interest in or knowledge of safe
surfing. He has purchased a new desktop and I have the notebook to play with
at my leisure. Apparently he does not require the mobility of a notebook and
my estimated repair time to backup up his data, format, install the OS and
update and then restore his data was too long. I thought it would take
around 1 working day, i.e. 24 hours from the time I discovered the
keylogger.
There are other issues with this unit. It runs very very hot and the random
shutdowns were due to heat. I have stripped out all the fans and cleaned
them. I have cleaned the heatsink too but I cannot get the thing to really
run cooler. After about 20 minutes the keyboard is hot to the touch and the
power button and base of the LCD are uncomfortably hot to touch. I currently
have it balanced on 4 empty tuna tins in which I keep loose screws. It has
not shut down again but is still very hot.
Any suggestions as to what I may have missed?
Trace
PCTECH
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Subject: Re: [CHAD] KEYLOGGER DETECTORS - KL-Detector
Good plan, Trace. The forensics are interesting and the knowledge is
nice to have, but once your system has been breached, you can never
fully trust it again until it's been very cleanly reinstalled. Was
this one of your own computers? Or was it a client?
Wyatt M. Portendt
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On Sep 13, 2007, at 1:21 AM, PCTECH wrote:
> Gene, I just want to thank you for this little gem. Today I
> encountered
> my first keylogger and this program was invaluable in tracking just
> where
> log files were being stored. I'm still struggling to remove the little
> bugger (for my own information and knowledge) but will probably end up
> formatting since the unit has been compromised.
>
> Trace
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