How to detect and remove keyloggers and survillance software

Removal of a hardware keylogger:

If you see a device about the size of a AA battery along your keyboard line, it could either be a filter, or a hardware keylogger. Look at the device carefully, if this is removable then that it is a hardware keylogger.

To remove a hardware keylogger, first shut down your computer, otherwise you could damage your system. Once your computer is powered off, remove the device from in between your keyboard and computer, and then plug your keyboard directly back into the computer. Make sure that it is plugged in completely, be careful the connectors are fragile.

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Detection of a software keylogger:

A keylogger can involve dozens of files, it's primary goal complete stealth from the user, removing one manually can be a very difficult work for any computer user. There are tools for removing keyloggers, but no one of these can make a good detection if a different version or product appears. For this reason periodicals updates are required. Currently WinSession Logger can't be detected for any tool for removing keylogger, but there are exceptions. Now WinSession Logger 2.0 kill most popular anti-keyloggers, In a few months (year 2005) you will be able to download from our site a software tool for removing others popular keyloggers and anti keyloggers completely free.

If you suspect a keylogger in your system, you can detect a typical English keylogger easily, if you install a Spanish keyboard, try of getting an accented vowel, for example: á , and if you get ´´a , with two accents and not only á, probably a keylogger is running in your computer; but this doesn't apply to WinSession Logger.

Also you could try something like this, close every application and open Notepad, write something for a few of minutes(5 minutes is enough) and try to detect a periodic activity on your hard disk if the LED of your hard disk blinks probably a surveillance software running in your computer.

If you want, try to use Filemon (a free utility from Sysinternals) to detect any suspects activity on your hard disk, when you close every application except you Notepad used for testing purposes while you write something, type 10 to 100 or more words, but you should exclude typicals aplications or services of Windows, like Explorer, Csrss.exe, lsass.exe, alg.exe, once again close every aplication except your Notepad used for testing purposes while you write something, type 10, 100 or more words and watch the log of Filemon if there is activity on a file , you are being spied.