Is there something that you can download or have on your computer that tells you peoples password?

[Rosie]

Your probrably wondering why im asking. My brother found me changing my facebook password because he always goes on my account and he told me no matter what i change it to he can find out my password in five minutes because he downloaded something on the computer that does that.

[Ben Rothwell]

no

[A]

Yeah, it's called a keylogger. I *think* they're considered viruses, but it monitors keystrokes or something, So yeah he could have put one on your computer I guess. Sorry I don't know too much about them.

[Karen]

Yes there are key capture programs but you have to pay for those. If he really did that, it's probably watching all your surfing too. The best thing to do looking back is creating an Administrator account when you first load the OS. Then you, and only you, have that password. Create a user account that you use for FB and whatever but cannot install any programs. This way, you know that he's not putting down any software.

[Christopher]

Yes, there are keylogger applications that will record every key you type. There are also password breakers and such. look on the computer for any unrecognized software and research it. There are many different types with many different names.

[CQ-DX]

You need to scan your machine with a good anti-spyware and look for a keylogger.

SUPERAntiSpyware:
http://www.superantispyware.com/

They have a free version and it's excellent.

Download and install SUPER, update it, do a full system scan and quarantine what it finds.

Then do a quick scan with SUPER on a regular basis.

And then change your Facebook password to a strong one of at least 10 characters...use both upper and lower case letters and throw in some numerals and punctuation marks too. Do NOT use your Facebook password for anything else!

[The EggMan]

There is monitoring software that records everything, then there are just keystroke loggers that record everything typed.

You can defeat keystroke loggers by typing a long letter in a text type program, then copying and pasting a certain segment of text only known to you from the long letter into the password fields on Facebook.

The keystroke logger works on the concept of seeing repeated instances of letters, like a password, out of everything you type on the keyboard. But if you type a long letter, that's all he see's in the keylogger report, he doesn't know what segment of type in that long letter is the password as your copying and pasting via menu options not using the keyboard at all.

So take for instance my last paragraph, you would copy "er report, he" from my second sentence, part of "...keylogger report, he... and paste that as your new Facebook password.

Do that, then change the Facebook password nearly everyday, using a new segment of text. It will drive him crazy.

Oh, never admit how your doing it, or let him watch you from behind.

[The Phlebob]

He put a keylogger on your computer. Treat it as malware.

There are never any guarantees in malware fighting, but here's my best shot at a generic removal procedure:

First, boot into Safe Mode With Networking. (See below for details.) That sometimes keeps malware from protecting itself. Then, if you have an anti-virus, make sure it has the latest virus definitions and run a full scan with it. If you don’t have one, many people here swear by Malwarebytes (it’s free).

I suggest you also download Ad-Aware Free and Spybot S&D (they’re free), install them, update them and run full scans with them in Safe Mode With Networking.

Also, turn off System Restore to evict any copies of bad stuff that might be lurking there.

To get into Safe Mode with Networking:

1.Log out and reboot your machine.
2.When the machine starts the reboot sequence, press the F8 key repeatedly.
3.Select Safe Mode with Networking from the resulting menu.
4.Login. If the malware has changed your password, try logging in as Administrator. By default, Administrator has no password.
5.The machine will continue booting, but the Windows desktop will look different.
6.When you're finished doing what you need to do, log out and reboot back into normal mode.

Another trick that may enable anti-malware and/or its installer program to sneak past the malware is to change the name of the anti-malware program itself. The names of the files and their locations differ between anti-malware programs, but the procedure is always the same:

1.In Windows Explorer, find the folder with the anti-malware.
2.Change the name of the program (it always ends with a .exe) to virtually anything else, but keep the “.exe” part.
3.Run that.

Note that even if the anti-malware programs get rid of the malware, they may not be able to reverse the effects. Search the Web for possible fixes.

Update and run full scans regularly, not just when you think you already have malware.

Good luck.