Tuesday, October 29, 2013

How to detect keylogger installed in your system

How to detect keylogger installed in your system

Keyloggers are the one of the commonly used tool for hacking or stealing your personal data like passwords , IDs and even your ATM pin...
So today i will teach you to protect from these
keyloggers.


Step 1:

Open task manager (Ctrl+shift+esc) -> Processess -> View -> select columns -> Tick PID

Step 2:

Open command prompt and type "netstat-ano"Now you have to look for only Established PID

Step 3: 

Again go back to processes and match the PID of established connection with the PID in processes

Step 4:

Look at its image name, If you found name of trusted applications like explorer.exe or firefox.exe there's nothing to worry..You are safe But If you found any suspicious name like svchost.exe or another which you haven't saw earlier you have chances of keyloggers installed in your system

Step 5:

Right click the suspicious file -> Open file locations and upload that file to any online scanners

If you have any keylogger installed it will detect it easily, For your 

satisfaction check that file in at least 2-3 online scanners

Hope you find it useful

This post is created by Saravanan who is having rich experience in system administration

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