Anti-keylogger?

[J.Smith]

What is the best anti-keylogger utility out there for win2K?
Best free one?

Thanks!

 

[David H. Lipman]

AVAST - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html - FREE
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 - FREE
CA eTrust - http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - FREE for one year.
{ Free offer ends 2/1/05 }

Dave



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[Steven L Umbach]

AdAware and Spybot do scan for keyboard loggers though Pest Patrol probably
is better than both in that regard but I do not think it is free any longer
since CA bought it. --- Steve

 

[dc0de]

I don't know what Donnie ([email protected]) is talking about, as I
have Symantec Anti-Virus 9, and Symantec Client Security 2.0, and do not
have to worry about keyloggers.

Symantec has a great track record of finding these trojans, and being
able to remove them. And since they own www.securityfocus.com, they
have one of the largest groups of information gatherers in the
Information Security market. I would be wary of any small companies
that claim to do a better job across the board.

Just my 2¢, YMMV.

 

[S. Pidgorny]

Hi,

comments inline:

I don't know what Donnie ([email protected]) is talking about, as I
have Symantec Anti-Virus 9, and Symantec Client Security 2.0, and do not
have to worry about keyloggers.

Are you serious? Not that I'm a big paranoid, but they can't do anything
with hardware keyloggers, nor they detected a sofware keylogger that my
colleague has written in few hours. They don't analyse API hooks - Symantec
only protects against well-known software keylogger engines.

Symantec has a great track record of finding these trojans, and being
able to remove them. And since they own www.securityfocus.com, they
have one of the largest groups of information gatherers in the
Information Security market. I would be wary of any small companies
that claim to do a better job across the board.

Symantec is a good company and nobody claims being better accross the board.
But it is a fact of life that Symantec doesn't do overly good job protecting
againts different kinds of annoying malware/adware/crapware (I'm not too
sure about rootkits). There is no perfect vendor.

 

[Joe]

Crackers tend to target their software too, as they are so popular