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Friday
2008-11-30, 15:35
The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Inside Keylogger" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.

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Threat Details:

Categories:
keylogger

Description:
Inside Keylogger tracks all keystrokes without the user's awareness or consent about this. It runs silently in the background and makes screen shots of every application or website the user is using.
Removal Instructions:

Files:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.

The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\EML.exe".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Errors.txt".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\IKL.chm".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\IKL.dll".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\IKL.exe".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\IKLUninstaller.exe".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\SCL.exe".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLAggregatedLog.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLAllDayIKLApplications.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLAllDayIKLClipboardMonitor.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLAllDayIKLFileMonitor.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLAllDayIKLKeyLogger.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLAllDayIKLMessenger.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLAllDayIKLPrinterMonitor.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLAllDayIKLScreenShot.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLAllDayIKLWeb.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLApplications.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLbk.bmp".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLClipboardMonitor.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLFileMonitor.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLGlobalLog.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLKeyLogger.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLKeyLogger_20070427.ikl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLMessenger.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLPrinterMonitor.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLScreenShot.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\IKLWeb.xsl".
The file at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL\Reps\TestEmail.xml".
Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Inside Keylogger uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!

Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd) to remove them.

Folders:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these folders.

The directory at "<$COMMONAPPDATA>\IKL".
Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Inside Keylogger uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify folders!

Registry:

You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.

Delete the registry key "IKL" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\".
Delete the registry value "IKL" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\".
If Inside Keylogger uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).

Final Words:

If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.