Spyware…..A Losing Battle – Ardamax Keylogger

by Das Brain

This morning when I started up one of my stock / option trading system and ran Spybot Search and Destroy spyware detection software it detected a keylogger program called Ardamax keylogger.

I went to Google and did a search on Ardamax keylogger and got some information about it. Apparently it is a program that hackers / software hackers bundle with warez or websites and when you visit a website or install a warez program it places this Ardamax keylogger software somehow on your Windows based computer.

The scary thing about this Ardamax keylooger software is that as its name implies, it logs all your keystrokes, and this is very scary it also logs clipboard activities. So if you copy and paste your passwords when login into banking websites and such, it will still be able to know what your username and password is, because its in the clipboard. Spyware programs like Ardamax keylogger are used all the time by hackers for identity theft and other malicious purposes.

After further research into Ardamax keylogger program revealed that this tiny little spyware program can also e-mail the results of the keystroke logs to any e-mail address (most likely the hackers). Who knows where this hacker could reside it could be anywhere in the world, but you could bet that once he recieves the e-mail with your userid and passwords for sensitive banking or trading websites, the hacker will be on it like vulture on dead meat.

Ardamax Keylogger Spyware programs

The proper course of action here, is change the passwords of all your website accounts, and that was what I spent the last hour doing. On top of that I scanned all the computers in the house and made sure I got rid of all spyware on my machines….this could be a full time job, it is so freakin’ time consuming.

Thankfully the free Spybot Search and Destroy program was able to detect this Ardamax keylogger program, sometimes free spyware detection software aren’t the best at detecting the latest spyware, but Ardamax seems to have been around for about 1.5 years, so Spybot was able to find it and remove it.

So, what can you learn from this? Well, for starters you should get yourself the latest spyware detection software, or update the spyware definition files, and secondly you should be scanning for spyware at least, once a week. For me “Spybot Search and Destroy” worked quite well, and another Spyware detection software I did research on was “Spyware Doctor”, it seems to be the best on the market, I’ll probably end up buying a copy.

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