There's already software out there that records and sends keystrokes and mouse clicks to another party. It's called "clickcatcher" and I've found it on my computer. It was found running, and hidden, whenever I started my browser Netscape 4.78. That's on a G4 Mac with OS 9.1.
I found it because it screwed up my system. It started every time I started the browser. But it didn't shutdown when the browser was closed. And it wouldn't shut down..period. That caused my computer to refuse to shut down because it couldn't shut down this hidden program. And that's what caused me do search and find it.
AV software (Virex) did not find it. If it didn't cause my computer to refuse to shut down... I may not have noticed it for quite a while. I don't know how long it's been there, or who it was sending this information too. Has anyone heard of something called clickcatcher?
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There's already software out there that records and sends keystrokes and mouse clicks to another party. It's called "clickcatcher" and I've found it on my computer. It was found running, and hidden, whenever I started my browser Netscape 4.78. That's on a G4 Mac with OS 9.1.
I found it because it screwed up my system. It started every time I started the browser. But it didn't shutdown when the browser was closed. And it wouldn't shut down..period. That caused my computer to refuse to shut down because it couldn't shut down this hidden program. And that's what caused me do search and find it.
AV software (Virex) did not find it. If it didn't cause my computer to refuse to shut down... I may not have noticed it for quite a while. I don't know how long it's been there, or who it was sending this information too. Has anyone heard of something called clickcatcher?