How to Install Windows Keylogger
I will not ask why you need a keylogger. Just know that putting one of them in someone else’s system is a great way to get ditched, fired, or prosecuted , depending on your situation. It’s also a great way to really put someone into a world of resentment if a little utility you downloaded intercepts keystrokes for you and sends them to another source without you or you knowing.
In other words, installing a keylogger on a human system is a rather unpleasant move. I am assuming you install this on your system to make sure no one is hacking or using it in your home or office. Right?
You can find many Windows keyloggers on the Internet, including hardware keyloggers . This is the easy part. The ones I show in this article have two advantages over others I have tested: they did not launch Windows Defender when you downloaded or installed them, which suggests that they are not a Trojan horse or something. which is easy to pick up. another user’s system and they are already compiled into an easy-to-use installer. (If you want to compile your keylogger from source, or play with Python to get it running, by all means.)
I’ve tested all three of the following keyloggers, and here’s how I would rank them in order from least preferred to most preferred:
Free Keylogger Spyrix
This app had the least enjoyable user interface I’ve tested and all of its fancy hiding features require you to pay at least $ 60 for a 12 month professional software license (bleh), but this is a basic keylogger that does my job.
While the app’s icon is on the Windows taskbar, which can be manually removed using the Windows taskbar settings, it otherwise hides pretty well, requiring you to press a key command (CTRL + ALT + A by default) to open it. main screen. There you will get a pretty comprehensive list of all the main things that happened on this system, including which programs were launched (and when), and what was entered into them:
The app also supports many advanced features, including screenshots, webcam shots, and items copied to the clipboard. To be honest, I think this is a bit too much, especially when you consider that this simple text magazine will go wild in a week or so. You can also email the log files to yourself via Spyrix, but I don’t quite believe the company plays well with the data it sends you. Call me paranoid.
However, I haven’t had any problems installing or using Spyrix, and it definitely gets the job done – sort of. When I started typing in a dummy text file, Spyrix had a little trouble logging my initial keystrokes. It probably doesn’t matter much if you have a sea of inputs to go through, but in my (admittedly limited) test, it was slightly less accurate.
Revealer Keylogger
The free version of Revealer Keylogger offers a pretty simple way to record what is entered into the system. Like Spyrix, the app icon sits on the taskbar so anyone can see if you manually uninstall it. However, its main screen (and settings) is also hidden behind the keyboard shortcut – CTRL + ALT + F9 by default.
Revealer Keylogger can also take screenshots as you work, but I think its text recording capabilities are all you really need. They are well presented and accurate. You can easily see when a person entered text into the application, what kind of application it was and when they entered their data. If you’re brave, you can even ask Revealer Keylogger to email you this information. I wouldn’t choose this option myself, but I would check the Stealth app’s features in its Settings menu to hide Revealer Keylogger from Task Manager, Windows Explorer (or File Manager), and when Windows starts up. …
Stupid keylogger
What I love the most about StupidKeylogger is that it is nearly impossible to find it for anyone else. There is nothing in your start menu; there is no application to uninstall under Programs and Features, and there are no system tray icons to indicate its existence. You will need physical access to the system to reap the benefits of what it records and also to install it, but that shouldn’t be too difficult, right?
I didn’t take screenshots for StupidKeylogger because there isn’t much to show there. You unpack the contents of the keylogger to the system (or to a flash drive), launch the “Infect.bat” application to install it, and leave. When you’re ready to see what’s being done, you go back to the system, run CollectData.bat to create the log file, and run RecordDecoder.exe to decrypt it. Boom – a giant text file of keystrokes and mouse clicks awaits you.