[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?

[aimhigh]

There could be literally thousands of .txt files to to search through, no?

Here's the logic I used to find the file on my daughter's PC. After a couple minutes of keyboard use, the file created or updated by a key logger would display a real recent 'Date modified' in Windows Explorer. I did a search in Windows Explorer for *.txt, using the search entry box in the upper right hand corner. After several minutes, the list was compiled.

Click on the 'Date Modified' column to sort the list by newest first. Then open up the top 10 to see what's in the files. If you a key logging file, it should be easily recognizable.