I want a Keylogger for myself, that's not spyware.

[Plinkerton]

I have often typed huge emails, to then hit something that changes the page forward or back, and lose everything.

I want a keylogger, that runs silently on my own computer, so if that ever happens, I can just go into the log file, and copy and paste. I used to do this with the Keylogger Lite something or other. It was a free keylogger, but then I found out it was spyware.

Is there a small simple program that will do this? I have never been able to find one.

I just did this again now, which promted me to post this. It seems like it would be very helpful to many people, and I'm kind of surprised I'm having such a hard time finding one.

Thanks a lot,
Plink

[daeojkim]

If I know more about programming it would be pretty easy to write something like that.
Any good VB programmers here?
This would be fun to have. ..

Personally I would not trust any kind of key logger that someone that I didn't know wrote or downloaded from internet. Whether it is classified as spyware or not. Unless I can look at the entire code and make sure that there is nothing more than just keylog and nothing more .

I think there is too much risk involved.

May be I am paranoid but with all the ID theft going on. I would not trust any keylogger.

[egibbs]

Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C. Do it often as you are typing to copy everything in the text to the clipboard, then if you hose the post hit Ctrl+V to paste it back.

Ed Gibbs

[Plinkerton]

I guess the Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C thing would work, but it's just a pain. I wish there was just some way I could forget about it.

What trustworthy person from here wants to write a program? Anyone?

I guess I'm out of luck.

Thanks,
Plink

[LumberJack]

Well you could always write a marcro that presed Ctr+A and Ctr+c evey few seconds or minutes or whatever.. but this seems like overkilll.For long emails you might consider using Word to type your email with Autosave enabled and set it to some short time. Then when you are finished copy and paste it into your email program. If you ever loose the stuff you can pull it out of Words autosave file.

Hope that helps.

LJ

[Leon]

http://kmint21.com/keylogger/

[Plinkerton]

A couple reviews on download.com mention that this program has trojans and spyware in it. Other than that, it would be fine. I don't need it hidden, as i'm not going to spy on anyone.

Can anyone confirm whether this program has anything bad in it or not?

Thanks,
Plink

[s0larian]

I cannot help you with the keylogger program. But your original problem, typing an email (if I understand it correct you mean probably webmail) and hitting accidently the forward or back button you can solve easily by using the right browser. I am using Opera and with memory and disk cache enabled (which is default) I never loose the text of a formular. I don't know how Firefox handles this, but playing around with cache options might help you.

[Leon]

hey Plink, as a public service (and cause I felt guilty having recommended it), I downloaded and installed it. I then scanned it with updated versions of Norton AV, Spysweeper, and Microsoft Antivirus. Guess what! They found Spyware===> It WAS the keylogger itself (which of course, by definition, IS Spyware). But no embedded Trojans or any other bad stuff. It is o.k.

[Plinkerton]

I see. So keyloggers themselves are spyware, as I would assume they are often used to spy on people...

You think there's no harm putting this on my computer? I'd hate for it to be sending information out to some server somewhere...

If it's cool though, this would be great to have.

Thanks,
Plink

Also, I run Spybot and Ad Aware pretty often. I would assume this program would turn up, if I installed it. Should I just ignore it then, and not get rid of it when I run Spybot?

[Leon]

you assume correctly!

Appears to be no harm. I also ran it with my firewall, and it never tried to access the Internet. It is sold by a commercial company, who I believe would already have been put out of business if they were themselves spying.

Yes, your Antispy software will (and should) identify ANY keylogger.... just ignore/exclude it when it does, as you are spying on yourself!

[Plinkerton]

Alrighty. I'm doing it. If it sends any info out of my computer, I'll start sending you hate mail...

Thanks again for the self-test and the recommendation.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks,
Plink

[Leon]

funny follow-up.... I uninstalled the Keylogger last night after the test, but this morning, both Norton AV and Microsoft AS (which run unattended) reported Spyware found! It was the keylogger itself, reported in the Recycle Bin where it went (quite properly) after I deleted it!