Windows 7 IE history showing keystrokes

SVI40 · 18-07-2011 10:19pm #1

Hi,

Friend of mine discovered that when viewing his Internet history, it was showing all the text of emails, facebook pm's etc. Is Windows 7 capable of this, or is it some form of keylogger installed? Will scan it with Malware Bytes when he gets it to me, but in the interm any info would be appreciated.

Incidentally, his partner fell for the tech call from India scam, and gave access to them remotely, so this may be the reason.

Thanks in advance,

SVI40

Hal Emmerich · 19-07-2011 12:54am

SVI40 wrote: »

Hi,

Friend of mine discovered that when viewing his Internet history, it was showing all the text of emails, facebook pm's etc. Is Windows 7 capable of this, or is it some form of keylogger installed? Will scan it with Malware Bytes when he gets it to me, but in the interm any info would be appreciated.

Incidentally, his partner fell for the tech call from India scam, and gave access to them remotely, so this may be the reason.

Thanks in advance,

SVI40

Don't know about the remembering e-mails bit (I'd say it's spyware related) but re-install the Operating system if you can, far quicker than looking for all the different crap they may have installed + he'll have to change every password and cancel all cards used on the machine to be safe also.

If going with the scanners, SuperAntispyware is good and go through Add and Remove programs for dodgy looking stuff.

SVI40 · 19-07-2011 9:20am

Hey Hal,

Thanks for the reply. I will be checking for any suspicious applications installed, and running a full malware/spyware scan on the PC. I currently have not done much at all on Windows 7, so I was really wondering if MS had added a function to log keystrokes, or auto-archive any text that was typed?

Thanks,

SVI40