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Most trojaning, spyware and keylogger tools have the ability to take screenshots. Is there a way to detect if an app or software is taking a screenshot in Windows? Maybe a Windows API call or dll?
Most trojaning, spyware and keylogger tools have the ability to take screenshots. Is there a way to detect if an app or software is taking a screenshot in Windows? Maybe a Windows API call or dll?
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Answered on Mar 21, 2022
You can detect the screen capture malware by monitoring free space (very easy) or file writes (not that easy). The screenshots must be stored somewhere so files will have to stack up to a not-so-obvious location. This is the method I used, and I managed to locate and eliminate a multi-logger just by using a simple file manager.
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