Additionally, I would inquire of my family members who have access to your computer what they had in mind when installing this piece of spyware. Sounds like there may be a trust issue there.

See http://www.spywareremove.com/removeFamilyKeyLogger.html for how to thoroughly remove this.

Then password protect your computer with a screensaver you can kick in automatically when you leave your computer and set a password on it.

I have created a simple shortcut to lock my computer when I leave it at work - no need to use it at home, cats don't have access to my desktop, they have their own laptops!) - then drag it to your quick launch bar:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

Works on Windows XP, not sure about Windows Vista.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Peter Nolan asked:

| On Dec 30, 11:00 am, "VanguardLH" wrote:
|| "Peter Nolan" wrote in message
||
|| ...
||
||| I am using outlook xp on win xp dell laptop...
||
||| When I sent emails out I am occasionally seeing 'sending 0 of n'
||| emails.
||
||| This usually only occurs when sending acknowledgements for emails
||| and
||| in these cases there are no acknowledgments......
||
|| snip
||
|| I never send (automatically or via prompt) any read receipts so this
|| is a just a guess that Outlook doesn't count read receipts since YOU
|| didn't compose them. I wasn't aware that Outlook even gave you any
|| notification that it was sending a read receipt.
||
|| Do you have Outlook configured to automatically send read receipts
|| (when any senders requests them)? One of the first configuration
|| changes or checks you should do after installing Outlook is to ensure
|| that you neither automatically send read receipts or even bother with
|| the prompts for them. Set Outlook to *never* send read receipts.
|
| Hi All,
| more on this one...
|
| 1. No..there is nothing in the sent items for the 0 of n emails being
| sent....does anyone know how to track what emails are being sent
| especially these 0 of 1? Can the tcp port be logged to see what is
| going over it? Or can Outlook be made to log in more detail?
|
|
| 2. The directory that the spyware is in is "F:\Documents and Settings
| \Peter Nolan\Local Settings\Temp\AAWTMP\C658777" and it is
| familykeyloggersetup.exe..
|
| Interestingly, if I open this folder in exlporer the name of the
| subfolder keeps changing. I guess this is it's attempt to hide...
|
| 3. I have a dual boot machine so I booted the other OS opened outlook
| there and scanned using ad aware and ad aware + mcafee found the key
| logger again, this time on the C drive....So it would seem to me that
| the spyware is somehow attached to the outlook folder because the
| instance of outlook was completely separate. Does anyone know how to
| look for what programs are loaded when outlook starts up? Is there
| a .ini file or something? I would think the spyware must be attached
| to the startup of outlook via the folder that held the original bugged
| email.
|
| "If you have all windows and office updates and do not open blocked
| attachments and do not visit questionable, untrusted websites and use
| the
| default security settings (or tighten them), you should be ok. "
|
| I gather that I have received an email that had the bug in it.....they
| have done a pretty good job since they avoided mcafee on the way
| in...though mcafee finds it when scanned by ad aware....it is
| interesting to note that mcafee does NOT find it if it is run by
| itself....probably because of the changing folder name.......
|
| 4. I have not yet figured out how to make sure I can get rid of it so
| no credit card numbers getting typed into this laptop any time
| soon.....
|
| All ideas most welcome....
|
| I will also post to the mcafee site.
|
| Thanks
|
| Peter