Creating a keylogger

[nobodyOne]

Hey all. I've been wondering recently how you could get a user's keyboard input even if your program doensn't have focus.
That is, your program is either invisable, minimized, or in the background yet everything that someone is typing into Word or AOL is constantly being added to a text box on your program as well as the desired text box on Word or AOL.

Please help me. Thank you!

[gwdash]

you could use a timer and GetAsyncKeyState, but this is usually not good enough. C++ alows for a global hook to do this and i just saw some VB code to track mouse movements, so you may be able to track the keyboard using the same concept.

[nobodyOne]

Alright, that thuroughly confused me. I don't know any C++ at all, so I'd like to do this with VB. Where did you see this mouse movement code?

[gwdash]

on this forum, a couple days ago.

[Lord Orwell]

if you have directx7, you can do a hook with that pretty easily. Search around. There is code for that. I posted some in this forum myself. The only problem you might have is the size of the module. If it is for your own computer (and i am assuming it is since you nicely mentioned aol), then this won't be an issue since you have the file anyway.
Dontya hate it when they don't save their passwords?

[nobodyOne]

Please keep in mind that I am a pretty severe newbie. I have no idea how to use Direct X, I just thought it was something you had to install everytime you get a game. *Twirls his blonde hair absently*
Actually, I was intending to sell this program to my friends. Not because I personally dispise AOL parental controls, but because everyone deserves the ability to log their IMs and Chats on their own. Hehehehe.
Anyway, if you could please point me toward these codes that you have posted, I would be eternally grateful.
Thanks!

You can't have a global WH_KEYBOARD hook in VB...I think, however, that the WH_JOURNALRECORD message can do this, but I have not yet tested it.

[Lord Orwell]

i dont know if it works on aol 6.0,
but every other version of aol has that ability already.

Just bring the window into focus you want to log and go to "save as"
the log name will become the title of the window.

[nobodyOne]

...Oh, thank you.... It's not like I'm simply trying to show a legitamite face for a program that I actually intend to imploy on stealing passwords and monitoring other family member's conversations.......

[Chin311]

coool

[billzeller]

Here's a little something I threw together (I found the api code on a forum somewhere). This basically puts all keys pressed in a textbox. Pressing backspace removes the last character from the textbox, etc. Let me know if it doesn't work...


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There is also a key lgger avialable at PSC.

Click here to view them.

[ParisH]

WARNING! Virus (exe) in BILLZELLER's zip file!!!

[|2eM!x]

you could also make whatever they keyascii saved into a .text file ; )

[ice_531]

lol why is this old topic being posted in?

Do people check the dates on posts, 2001