Mike Hammett wrote: > I had a client ask me about this. Does anyone know of software that > will analyze a computer to assist someone in determining if their spouse > is cheating? I'm afraid of a Google search giving me something that's a > scam.
A number of rootkits include keyloggers, and some of the more fancy ones reportedly have regular screenshot capability - they'll take screen shots once a minute, say, dump 'em in a folder, then when they phone home to Botnet Central they'll send the pictures over too, to help the attacker identify what Web site that password goes to. (If you bookmarked your bank's Web site, it won't show up in the keylogger.) Of course, that sort of thing tends to set off the anti-virus software, and even if you had one that wasn't detected, the software still leaves traces. Registry entries so it'll run at startup, logs and maybe screenshots stored somewhere on the hard drive. Also, that assumes the target is running Windows, probably; a second disk partition or a Live-CD of your favorite Linux distribution and your fancy keylogger software is useless. Assuming you can get physical access to the target system, a hardware keylogger is the way to go. http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/whereisit.cgi?t=keylogger&x=0&y=0 here's a couple of 'em This does require a couple separate accesses to the target location - one to install the keylogger device, and a second one to retrieve it - and it's much harder to pass off as an accident if you're compromised. With software, you could reasonably pretend it's a virus and that you have no knowledge of it; the hardware device, even if you don't know what it is, obviously is there for some reason, and is automatically much more suspicious. As with any scenario like this, the best way to proceed depends largely upon your target's level of paranoia and expertise. Good luck! David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
