Posted on 08/17/2013 1:23:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I doubt it’s really a problem as I frequently check out postings there (and millions of others do as well) but am not on a Windows platform anyway.
I don’t follow what you’re saying about Lerner and the IRS or Snowden. Could you explain?
They’re essentially a ghost in your machine that catches every keystroke you make on your keyboard. Including but not limited to passwords and those little notepad notes you make to yourself on your home pc.
If you type a word document they catch that too. Even if you’re not on the internet they likely set it up to download that info when you do connect.
It means your pc is a spy.
(3rd amendment anyone?)
Me, too. I have no qualms about going to zero hedge. Which is why I was surprised. Could not it have been compromised by a third party?
Thanks for the details. Explains it perfectly.
(waving to the orcs!)
As I understand it that may be a symptom of keystroke logging,,and As there’s been no Trojan discovered On my computer I would have to guess that the logging was being done remotely.
This stopped at about the time I added This Message Not Approved By The NSA to my messages,,,
Amazing. Who here is shocked by this?
And yet there are still some at FR who believe Snowden is a "traitor" because HE "jeopardized OUR 'security.'"
Does your AV software provide any more specifics?
Yes, it says, “Rogue:JS/FakeAlert
Alert level Severe
This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker. Remove this software immediately.
I think we ARE saying, "UH-OH"...but also, hoping Whistleblowers put nation and honor before selling their soul and ALL of us out.
I’m now doing a full scan.
Damn. I just lost my 64 bit Dell to a malfunction, and all I have left is this 32 bit Toshiba. I miss my Dell.
Snowden’s DONE a heroic act..regardless of how its treated or what its called.
he jeopreadized TYRANNY!
Recording every keystroke and word of 300 million Americans — half of whom are considered “domestic terrorists” for reasons of intimidation and blackmail by a neo-Totalitarian Regime — *IS* something “new.” It’s also out in the open, unprecedented, and yawned at by Congress and the media.
I thought that was just from my computer being really slow - even when less than 10% of my CPU was in use. It was really bad when I was typing up an affidavit. In it I C&P’ed an email notification from Wordpress about an incriminating comment somebody tried to make on my blog and when I looked at that part about a week later, the C&P’ed email included a new line of text, saying that the person who had tried to comment had deleted his online identity.
Somebody else mentioned the cursor sort of wobbling when you try moving it. I thought that was just my mouse acting up.
The cursor rambling all over the page while I’m not touching my mouse is a bit of a mystery though...
The emails that didn’t reach Mike Zullo from me were suspicious too - especially since I was able to send it to somebody else and they were able to get it to him. It wasn’t that they were blocking him from receiving or me from sending, they just wouldn’t let ME send to HIM. And I’ve had emails that people said they sent to me but I got them days later or never, and the same with them from me...
The computer shutting itself off and starting itself again at seemingly-random times (usually when I’m in the middle of typing something important) was a surprise the first time it happened, but that’s only happened a few times.
This is all in addition to the trojans and viruses that always seem to affect only the computers I’m working on...
Me too. Things are suddenly better now that I have a faster internet connection, almost as if the faster connection allows quicker logging or sumtin’...
yes the TRANSPARENCY of this bunch of tyrants is far too apparent.
Im betting that it could be a two way street...ins SOME neighborhoods
Or, rather Snowden exposed the current Modus Operandi of this goobermint, this regime (Not that it matters to the "leaders" of the GOP or Dem-Commie Party, OR Stepford Wife Media.) That WE-the-People are THE Enemy.
Boehner, McConnell, McStain, and the GOP "leadership" keep wagging the dog's tail on Amnesty, 0dingaCare, and on the "War on Terror." (W Bush's favorite Dawgie Tail). In any case ALL are part and parcel to the epicenter of the New Dictatorship and New World Order.
Seems like they make something obvious when they want to intimidate somebody into silence, like they did with Sharyl Attkisson - having her computers turn off and on in the middle of the night.
I remember for a while people were saying, “Yeah, right...” when I commented on the computer issues I was having. As if I was just imagining things or making conspiracies where there were none. With the truth starting to come out now, people should be less afraid of being called crazy if they say what they’ve experienced. And there is some safety in numbers. Eventually there will be too many people saying stuff that threatens the regime in some way, and their problem will be that they can’t sort out the serious potential threats to them from the merely annoying ones.
IRS targeting of political opposition.
NSA targeting of political opposition.
They know who we are and are salivating at the chance to go full tilt goose step on us ”for the greater good” of course.
Cell phone text messages received hours later or never.
Keylogging can be done in the following ways.
* With hardware or software installed on the target machine (either directly or through trojans, malware, etc.).
* By acoustic analysis from a physical location very near the target machine.
* By visual analysis with cameras or a line of sight to the target machine.
* By way of getting login information for the target machine and logging in to that machine from a remote machine or otherwise cracking the machine.
* Electromagnetic emissions (requires receiver to be near machine).
* Various methods of sniffing or grabbing packets (example: getting the information en route to web forms).
There’s no magic way to detect keystrokes from afar. If the signals are not leaving the machine and no nearby surveillance methods are used, it’s not happening. Software for monitoring outgoing signals is one of many ways to detect keyloggers. The best preventions are good local physical security, hardware security and operating system security. Avoid popular closed-source operating systems and software.
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