Keylogger question.

Dazeon said:

Hey,

Does anyone know if it is possible for a keylogger to survive/persist a complete hard drive wipe using DBAN?

Darik's Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe and Data Clearing

I ran the program with DoD short wipe and 3 passes from a bootable DVD.

The system only contains one drive.

As many answers as possible would be great.

No, unless if the Version of Windows your installing is pirated and comes pre-installed with a keylogger!

Hi Dazeon, do you suspect there is/was a keylogger on your computer?

You can read about 'keylogers' here:
Viruslist.com - Keyloggers: How they work and how to detect them (Part 1)

Keyloggers can be divided into two categories: keylogging devices and keylogging software. Keyloggers which fall into the first category are usually small devices that can be fixed to the keyboard, or placed within a cable or the computer itself. The keylogging software category is made up of dedicated programs designed to track and log keystrokes.

keylogger would not withstand disk wipe with reboot.

^^^ if was a software application.

Ragzarok said:

Not keyloggers. But I believe some rootkits can survive that.

Nope, still impossible.

When you re-install Windows, the first thing Windows does is delete EVERYTHING on the selected partition (or hard drive) so that nothing is on it. Now, it installs a fresh copy. Rootkits will be wiped out during the deleting process.

Ragzarok said:

Bios rootkit is what I think they're called. Though I'm not familiar with the probability or method of being infected.

BIOS rootkit's are extremely rare and any legit anti-virus will block them.