[aimhigh]

First, make sure you don't have any viruses on your computer.

Most virus checkers won't stop a keylogger. My daughter's laptop was showing problems. I started my search. In reviewing text (*.txt) files by date and size, I found a text file full of all her recent keystrokes. Spooky!

[CowboyJay]

Most virus checkers won't stop a keylogger.

Fairly sure I don't have a virus, it's a 2-month-old laptop running Windows8 (which hackers probably haven't gotten around to writing much malware for yet) and Kaspersky.

How do keyloggers work? How does the information travel back to the hacker? Do you think it would be worth the time to go through all the .txt files on my computer? There could be literally thousands of .txt files to to search through, no?