What is Refog Keylogger?
Refog Keylogger is a commercial spyware with keylogger, screen capturing, and usage tracking features. It is mostly addressed to parents, employers, educational institutions, law enforcement agencies and is a legal program accessible to anybody. Certainly, tracking users’ activities might be used in a way that is not legitimate. Someone might use it to spy on your private life, or even worse, hunt for passwords and other security information that can be used to steal your money or do some other harm to you. With a thought about your security and privacy you need to know if this software is spying on you and be ready to remove Refog Keylogger and other spyware from your PC.
How Refog Keylogger can get into your system?
Anyone can download this program from CNET and install it on computer that can be accessed directly since Refog Keylogger must be installed in your system manually. Anyone who can have an access to your system might install this program in minutes. As with other commercial keyloggers this program might be installed in two different modes.
How can you find out that Refog Keylogger is installed?
If the installation was made in visible mode, then you can see this program in the program list and easily remove Refog Keylogger with Add / Install Programs utility called from your Control Panel. You also can use the program’s uninstaller directly. If Refog Keylogger is installed as invisible spying tool, then you need special scanners looking for spyware on your computer. If you notice your system slows down without any explainable cause, then it is a reason for you to test your system with antispyware tools. When many applications are opened and you fill that your system are frequently hangs, it is possible that screen capturing spyware is used or logs on your activities are quite big to write them down.
How to remove Refog Keylogger?
If Refog Keylogger is installed in visible mode, then you can easily remove it with your Add/Remove Programs utility, or you can use its uninstaller directly from a link or button present in the GUI or find uninstaller at %WINDIR%\System32\MPK\unins000.exe. With Refog Keylogger installed in invisible mode, the removal process is more difficult. First, you need to know that Refog Keylogger is present in your system. Since this program is legal, your antivirus software wouldn’t bring an alert on its activities. You need special antispyware tools for detecting this keylogger running in invisible mode. After detection you can uninstall Refog Keylogger from your PC with the help of some removal tool. Good thing is that detection and removal functions are usually combined in one tool.
If you want to uninstall Refog Keylogger manually, then you need to stop Refog Keylogger running processes and delete files that this program depends on. It is not that hard to find and remove entries made in system registry, but this process has to be done carefully. Errors in system registry might make your operating system inoperable. For being prepared to act on any possible problem you need to make backup for keys you remove. Then you can restore your system in case of trouble. With experience in system management you can easily remove Refog Keylogger manually. Without such an experience you better use someone’s help or use automated ways of Refog Keylogger removal.
Killl Refog Keylogger Processes:
- systems.exe
- uninstall.exe
- winlogons.exe
Note: Use Task Manager to kill these processes simultaneously
Unregiter Refog Keylogger DLL:
- systemdll.dll
Note: Start CMD and type regsvr32/u systemdll.dll then press Enter.
Delete Registry Keys for Refog Keylogger:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\fileexts\.mdb
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\kgb keylogger displayversion
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\kgb keylogger helplink
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\kgb keylogger helptelephone
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\kgb keylogger publisher
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\kgb keylogger urlinfoabout
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\kgb keylogger urlupdateinfo
Note: Make a system registry backup before you make changes in the system registry.
Search and delete Refog Keylogger files and folders:
- %Program Files%\kgb keylogger
Note: remove all files in this folder and then remove folder “kgb keylogger”
If you aren’t familiar with system administration tools and fill not comfortable with described operations, then your can use removal tool and spent you time for something more useful and productive than hunting for keyloggers. You can easily remove Refog Keylogger from your PC without extra effort.
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