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Posted by Jonathan Wilson on June 9, 2006, 12:43 am
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david_l@mail.com wrote:
> 47 writes to ntuser.dat.LOG during 1 minute keylogger test.
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> I terminated all programs on the taskbar and ran KL-Detector for about
> a minute, opening notepad, IE, and calculator, doing a lot of typing on
> each, and not saving anything. KL-Detector reported 47 writes to
> C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\ntuser.dat.LOG during this time, and
> marked it as suspicious. I had to boot up in a special command prompt
> mode to open the file, and the file was smal (47 bytes) with nothing
> readable in it (I used "edit" to open it).
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> I searched for info on this file, and apparently it's related to the
> registry.
>
> Are this many writes to that file normal? The OS is XP Pro.
>
ntuser.dat.log is a standard system file, it IS part of the registry (or
related to it).
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