-- Posted by Majo at 11:50 am on Nov. 6, 2008 How do you know if you have a keylogger? My bf thinks he might because he can't get into Yahoo!, YIM or his email, and he's not sure what's up. -- Posted by Molfsontan at 11:51 am on Nov. 6, 2008 Keyloggers record your login information and send it to the programmer.  They aren't really anything to be fearful of unless you have a WoW account or important email. -- Posted by Dass at 11:52 am on Nov. 6, 2008 keyloggers dont do shit other than log keystrokes, anything else would defeat their purpose. if anything he might have dns blocking filter on his router -- Posted by drifting at 11:52 am on Nov. 6, 2008 A good malware scan. Its not going to block him from getting into those services though, it would just note what he put in. Now, it would be possible for someone with malicious intent to then change his password, but that takes away the element of stealth. -- Posted by MustangJoe at 11:52 am on Nov. 6, 2008 some all you have to do is press ctrl al t and delete, go to task maager and see if anything suspicious is running others are more difficult -- Posted by Majo at 11:52 am on Nov. 6, 2008 And if you have important info in your email and can't get in? -- Posted by Majo at 11:53 am on Nov. 6, 2008 Quote: from drifting at 2:52 pm on Nov. 6, 2008 A good malware scan. Its not going to block him from getting into those services though, it would just note what he put in. Now, it would be possible for someone with malicious intent to then change his password, but that takes away the element of stealth. On a Mac? He seems to think that's what happened. Not sure why. -- Posted by drifting at 12:44 pm on Nov. 6, 2008 Quote: from Majo at 2:53 pm on Nov. 6, 2008 Quote: from drifting at 2:52 pm on Nov. 6, 2008 A good malware scan.    Its not going to block him from getting into those services though, it would just note what he put in. Now, it would be possible for someone with malicious intent to then change his password, but that takes away the element of stealth. On a Mac? He seems to think that's what happened. Not sure why. You never said it was a Mac. Its still possible. I just doubt it. Its possible he got duped into a phishing site, but its more likely that either caps lock is on, or hes just forgetting his password. -- Posted by Majo at 12:48 pm on Nov. 6, 2008 No, someone got his account most definitely. The little fucker logged on and when I said, "Hi?", he just wrote, "Hi." back. Then when I said, "How are you?" (because I knew by then that it wasn't my bf), he just wrote, "Bored, how are you?" then logged off because Yahoo! reset the password. But then a bit later, he got back in and changed it again. He has both of my bf's accounts and Yahoo! has had him on hold for about 15 minutes. EDIT: Oh, and he has a Mac but Windows is installed on it. -- Posted by drifting at 12:59 pm on Nov. 6, 2008 Quote: from Majo at 3:48 pm on Nov. 6, 2008 No, someone got his account most definitely. The little fucker logged on and when I said, "Hi?", he just wrote, "Hi." back. Then when I said, "How are you?" (because I knew by then that it wasn't my bf), he just wrote, "Bored, how are you?" then logged off because Yahoo! reset the password. But then a bit later, he got back in and changed it again. He has both of my bf's accounts and Yahoo! has had him on hold for about 15 minutes. EDIT: Oh, and he has a Mac but Windows is installed on it. Then there probably is some sort of Malware, or he fell victim to a phisher. Or someone used password reset. If he can still regain access using the password reset (after he cleans the computer rid of any malware) then he should change his password, and change his security questions. That would prevent someone from later regaining control. -- Posted by Majo at 1:01 pm on Nov. 6, 2008 He can't even get in to reset his password which means he either can't remember the info he used since his account is so old or they changed that, too. Gah, this fucking sucks.