From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-12-30T06:10:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Ruby be a keylogger on Win/Mac?

You can hook WMI if you want to and I bet you could somehow figure out
keyboard events from there.

I don't have a clue about OS X...

--Jeremy

On Dec 29, 2007 3:25 PM, Jay Levitt <jay+news@jay.fm> wrote:
> I know the subject's vague; that's because I don't know what I'm talking
> about.
>
> Is it possible to write an Ruby program that will intercept keystrokes on
> Windows XP?  I'm on Windows at the moment, but I'm switching to Mac soon.
> (Then again, I'm not sure if a Mac keylogger would be low-level enough to
> get keystrokes destined for a Parallels virtual machine running Windows, so
> both may be important.)
>
> No, I'm not doing anything nefarious.  In fact, here are the specs for what
> I want to write, and I'd probably give a small bounty to someone who did
> this SMOP:
>
> - Measure the average percentage of keystrokes that are either delete,
> backspace, or cursor keys
> - If that percentage is significantly higher than normal (for some value of
> "significantly"), pop up a modal alert
> - Don't be a CPU hog; maybe even self-disable when the computer is idle
>
> And if you know me, or dig a little, you'll know exactly why I want that.
> :)
>
> If it can hide from the process list or otherwise make itself difficult to
> close, all the better, but that's not strictly necessary.  It's fine if it
> needs Administrator/root permissions to run.
>
> --
> Jay Levitt                |
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> http://www.jay.fm         | - Kristoffer
>
>



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