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Monitoring-Tool:W32/Monitoring-Tool

Name : Monitoring-Tool:W32/Monitoring-Tool
Category:Malware
Type:Monitoring-Tool
Platform:W32

Summary

A program that monitors and records all actions on a computer, including keystrokes entered.

Additional Details

This is the Monitoring-Tool General Information page.

Monitoring-tools are most commonly dropped onto a target machine by trojans and spyware, which carry them as part of their payload. Once installed on the computer, the monitoring-tool may track and store data regarding most facets of a user's activities, from logging keystrokes entered, to computer programs accessed and websites visited.

The data harvested may be forwarded immediately to an external resource (e.g., a web server or e-mail address) or it may be stored, most commonly in a temporary folder, on the infected computer for future retrieval by the attacker.