Vista - do I have a keylogger or not?

xoftspy tells me that I have a keylogger called PCTattletale but windows
defender doesnt pick it up nor does Norton 2007 protection centre nor does
Hijackthis nor spybot S&D so do i have it or not?

In a recent post a user told me that it must have been installed manually if
it is there but I havent installed anything other than the os and office
(apart from of course the antispy progs I have mentioned)

Is PCTattletale a part of the parental control software in Vista?

Here is the PCTattletale software website: http://www.pctattletale.com/

And here is the Symantec information page and how to remove it:
http://sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/s...attletale.html

Yes, it is a keylogger but it had to be installed by someone.

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"T5" <noanswer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> xoftspy tells me that I have a keylogger called PCTattletale but windows
> defender doesnt pick it up nor does Norton 2007 protection centre nor does
> Hijackthis nor spybot S&D so do i have it or not?
>
> In a recent post a user told me that it must have been installed manually
> if it is there but I havent installed anything other than the os and
> office (apart from of course the antispy progs I have mentioned)
>
> Is PCTattletale a part of the parental control software in Vista?

how would I find the program? Norton doesnt detect it none of the online
scanners detect it but xoftspy does? does xoftspy have false results
aytomatically installed?
"Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message
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> Here is the PCTattletale software website: http://www.pctattletale.com/
>
> And here is the Symantec information page and how to remove it:
> http://sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/s...attletale.html
>
> Yes, it is a keylogger but it had to be installed by someone.
>
> --
> Dustin Harper
> dharper@vistarip.com
> http://www.vistarip.com
>
> --
> "T5" <noanswer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:7663B899-AB53-499E-8AEA-A7D883AA0A9D@microsoft.com...
>> xoftspy tells me that I have a keylogger called PCTattletale but windows
>> defender doesnt pick it up nor does Norton 2007 protection centre nor
>> does Hijackthis nor spybot S&D so do i have it or not?
>>
>> In a recent post a user told me that it must have been installed manually
>> if it is there but I havent installed anything other than the os and
>> office (apart from of course the antispy progs I have mentioned)
>>
>> Is PCTattletale a part of the parental control software in Vista?
>

T5 wrote:
> how would I find the program? Norton doesnt detect it none of the online
> scanners detect it but xoftspy does? does xoftspy have false results
> aytomatically installed?

Xoftspy should have given you a path to where the supposed file is. Is
Xoftspy certified for Vista? I think it is far more likely that this is
a false-positive. Find the file that Xoftspy is reporting and contact
Xoftspy's tech support for further help.


Malke
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I'm pretty sure that this is a false positive. This subject came up a couple
of months ago and I think that is what the conclusion was. Try searching for
it in the microsoft.public.windows.vista.general group - I'm pretty sure it
was in there.

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"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> T5 wrote:
>> how would I find the program? Norton doesnt detect it none of the online
>> scanners detect it but xoftspy does? does xoftspy have false results
>> aytomatically installed?
>
> Xoftspy should have given you a path to where the supposed file is. Is
> Xoftspy certified for Vista? I think it is far more likely that this is a
> false-positive. Find the file that Xoftspy is reporting and contact
> Xoftspy's tech support for further help.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User