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Recommend a Key Logger?

Kelemvor

Kelemvor

Lifer
So my wife complains that her laptop is possessed and opens and closes programs all by itself while she's typing. She got a new laptop and the ghosts seem to have followed her over to the new one.

I'm assuming she's bumping something on the touchpad or pressing a key combo that is moving things around.

Is there some sort of key logger type program that will record every key press and mouse click that I can then look at when she says something else happened to see what's really going on?
 
serious answer, see if she has moist palms. I have had users express all kinds of weird touchpad problems. Turns out almost all of them have sweaty hands.
 
can you tell us which programs?

I just had to troubleshoot something similar not that long ago. I can't remember the key combo but it had to do with a poorly located function key and one of the "home row" keys
 
Kelemvor said:
So my wife complains that her laptop is possessed and opens and closes programs all by itself while she's typing. She got a new laptop and the ghosts seem to have followed her over to the new one.

I'm assuming she's bumping something on the touchpad or pressing a key combo that is moving things around.

Is there some sort of key logger type program that will record every key press and mouse click that I can then look at when she says something else happened to see what's really going on?
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Try turning off the touchpad completely for a while and see if the symptoms persist. Typically when I see symptoms such as this, it's because the user has enabled the advanced touchpad features and activates them randomly (e.g. the double tap, drag & drop with one finger, etc..)
 
Juddog said:
Try turning off the touchpad completely for a while and see if the symptoms persist. Typically when I see symptoms such as this, it's because the user has enabled the advanced touchpad features and activates them randomly (e.g. the double tap, drag & drop with one finger, etc..)
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oOooOOO

That's right. Touchpads have gesture controls now. I hate those things.
 
Possessed Freak said:
serious answer, see if she has moist palms. I have had users express all kinds of weird touchpad problems. Turns out almost all of them have sweaty hands.
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Usually happens quite often when the laptop is with her behind a locked door, no? :sneaky:
 
Just turn off the touch pad. Then when she's convinced there are no ghosts following her you can turn it back on and teach her how to type without hitting the keypad. Or just get her a mouse and leave it off.
 
Juddog said:
Try turning off the touchpad completely for a while and see if the symptoms persist. Typically when I see symptoms such as this, it's because the user has enabled the advanced touchpad features and activates them randomly (e.g. the double tap, drag & drop with one finger, etc..)
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Yeah, that's the route I'm going to go as well. The new laptop has a button to turn the pad on and off. Also going to check the settings to adjust for sensitivity, quick corner taps macros, etc.
 
I'd check to make sure 'sticky keys' is turned off.

EVERY single issue like this that my friends/family have had - all were because of sticky keys. Stupid that it's on by default.
 
Turned off the touchpad and connected a wireless mouse last night so she can use it that way for a while to see if the gremlins go away... 🙂
 
rudeguy said:
Sub 7!
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Ha, I remember playing with that as a kid. So much fun screwing with people. I'd be curious to do a port scan on a random range to see if I'd find infected people now. I think trojans are a thing of a past now though, everybody is behind a NAT device.
 
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