Windows Keylogger

User Mode - Windows Key Logger application for educational purposes

This application will capture all your keyboard key press events and save it in a file in the background.!

disclaimer This application is created with no warranty or neither I would take any responsibilities for any sort of threats imposed by any individual or a group of individuals towards anyone. This application is developed soley for educational purposes of learning how Windows C++ API works in global keyboard hooks

Getting started

Steps to build

1. Clone the repository to your local PC
2. Open the solution with visual studio with C++
3. Build the project

Steps to execute/kill

1. Get the executables from the build folder, and execute the keylogger.exe
2. To kill the process you have to open up the task manager and search the process and kill it.

More information

Application is designed to write a file with the name keylogger.txt which contains all the key press done in the windows host where this application is running. This file is created along with the exe file which is excuted. You can change this file name from the stdafx.h file's line: #define LOGFILE "keylogger.txt"

In the debug mode application is written to write back to the log output window.

Application is Unicode enabled. So if the keyboard input has some extraordinary characters those will also get logged in the file.

• Update me with the bug as posting new issues in the github.
• Feel free to fork the project and fix any bugs that you find.
• have fun!