Keylogger detection -- HookProtect

Faustine a3495 at cotse.com
Sat Aug 11 14:20:50 PDT 2001


Somebody behind a remailer wrote:

>    Where's the source, Faustine? 

Tell you what: why don't you learn assembler, rip it open with whatever 
the "purist" equivalent of IDAPro is
(http://www.datarescue.be/downloadfreeware.htm) and and have yourself a 
ball. Seriously.

>Why would anyone concerned about
>personal security want to use something like this? 

Because the technology behind it is interesting and it addresses a problem 
associated with detecting keyloggers in a unique way. 

>For all anybody
>knows, this was put together by some of your friends in NSA to
>lull the sheeple with fake security audits -- or maybe it finds
>key loggers, just not the ones the feebs install.

For all anybody knows, you're a federal feeb behind a remailer trying to 
suss out exactly what I know and don't know about keystroke loggers. But 
how likely is that. 


>   Besides which it only runs on shitty M$-OS, nobody who is even 
>the slightest concerned (and has clue) would trust that. If it aint
>linux, and ain't opensource, it ain't shit. 

That's arguable. But don't forget that a lot of people have to use Windows 
at work. I think HookProtect is better than nothing. 


 >  Building something like this seems like a very cpunkerly thing
to do 

Have fun!

~Faustine.





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