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#How to detect a keylogger on mac os x install#

Unfortunately, since a keylogger is likely to have revealed your passwords, etc. Any keylogger is only useful to an attacker if they can get that info out somehow.

See if you can get Little Snitch installed keep an eye out for anything suspicious.

See if you can get chkrootkit to run, as most keyloggers are rootkits.

You may be able to sell this to your administrator by pointing out that Macs get malware too, and that you'd like to be protected.

It may be worth installing an anti-malware tool of some sort - from any of the big vendors Norton, McAfee, etc.

Some things that you may be comfortable trying though:

#How to detect a keylogger on mac os x install#

Unfortunately, with a corporate owned machine, they're likely allowed to install whatever they want, and any measures you take to circumvent the logger may well get you fired. I don't know of any corporate environments where they'd let you do that. A lot depends on the relationship between you and the machine - is it your own? Do you have administrator access to it? Since you mention that it's corporate owned, do you have an administrator that has ok'd a keylogger (for whatever reason)? It's possible (or, in fact, likely) you won't be able to remove it without drastic steps - specifically without re-imaging the machine with a known-good OS install.