Hacker on a machine, but how?

A hacker has supposedly been on my wife's machine, capturing her keystrokes. Bastid managed to pull $65k out of her brokerage account, although it was caught over in Australia and returned. Never would have believed it, but AOL senior guy assures me that someone must have access to her keystrokes. I have taken her machine offline, bought her a new one, and I now want to find out how the heck this fraud was perpetrated. Can anyone recommend a way to identify the program that was inserted?

 

it was keylogger and it can be inserted when any infected program was installed on your wife's system. A good antivirus may protect you but still there are hundreds of new keyloggers and viruses are being made, so you can't be hundred percent safe. Only safe way is not to download any software from net or install any pirated software as they mostly contain keyloggers.

 

Get it to the police.

 

There are some free keyloggers can be downloaded, may be you got one on your computer

 

Tell your wife to not to trust strangers on Internet, not to download any software, image, music or video from untrustworthy source and to stay away from sneaky websites..

Hackers exploit many ways to gain access of your computer.. Mostly via a webpage that uses multiple exploits/java applet to download and install keyloggers and/or RAT on victims computer..

 

Also be aware of spam mails. Some people also attach these key-loggers in emails so also be careful with them too. IMO just buy a premium edition of a good AV so you can get rid of all these potential threats.

 

Be careful of spam mails. Some people also attach these key-loggers in emails so also be careful with them too

 

lull you are . you dont need to get machine offline . just go get a good antivirus

 

hi
change operating system windows operating systems are very venerable, hackers can easily penetrate in your system, by softwares or by open ports, use Linux for better security ..

 

always use an antivirus on your machine!