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I have a friend who caught his landlord in his apartment using his laptop (he moved out afterward). The next time he tried to log in, his password was changed. I fixed the password problem but I got to thinking, what if his landlord installed some sort of spying software (keylogging, internet monitoring, remotely viewing webcam etc.)?
So my question is if I scan the PC using an offline (kaspersky rescue disk 10) or online malware scanner (Malwarebytes), will they detect spy software? I am under the impression there are legit spying tools that are used for monitoring kids or cheating spouse computers which may be given a free pass by anti malware vendors. Does any such spy software exist which will slip through anti-virus scans? Or is all spy software considered malware and caught by malware scanners?
I'm afraid even that is not sufficient for the truly paranoid. Given in our days we now have UEFI and similar stuff, it's conceivable that such a beasty can survive a complete reinstallation of a system including formatting. The last sentence is true, of course.
– 0xC0000022L – 2013-05-14T20:58:22.903Very good point. From what I have seen so far, some randomly named exe (wghwsjdgadhgda.exe or something like that) failed to start when I logged in. Thankfully he isn't a big computer geek and barely has any software installed and has only a handful of documents. I will simply backup his documents, wipe the disk and reinstall. – Mister Tea – 2013-05-15T11:37:53.553