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My friend seems to think he got a keylogger without downloading it.
He says if someone has his IP address, they can keylog him.

Is this true?

I thought the only way was if you download it.

no, they can keylog him if they can get a application onto their computer..

any decent firewall will stop that from happening

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Originally posted by Stigmata
no, they can keylog him if they can get a application onto their computer..

any decent firewall will stop that from happening

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And to get an application onto his computer.. he needs to download it.. right?

yes that would be one way of doing it

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Originally posted by Stigmata
yes that would be one way of doing it

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and other ways would be...?

in cracks per example, sometimes there are some files named crack.exe , that fool users who think that file is the crack...so they click it and right after a firewall notice will ask if you wish to allow it to connect to the internet..

(personal experience )

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Originally posted by Johny
in cracks per example, sometimes there are some files named crack.exe , that fool users who think that file is the crack...so they click it and right after a firewall notice will ask if you wish to allow it to connect to the internet..

(personal experience )

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True

And you need to download a keylogger for it to work and there is no other way. Thats why a good firewall is good cause the keylogger is useless if it cant report the keys to its server

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Originally posted by John Anderton
And you need to download a keylogger for it to work and there is no other way. Thats why a good firewall is good cause the keylogger is useless if it cant report the keys to its server

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crack.exe from my example can be the keylogger itself, i think

some programs download the keyloggers..

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Originally posted by Stigmata
some programs download the keyloggers..

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Like some spyware.