While I was setting up my computer, my computer slowed down to an extent that I found alarming. This issue later resolved itself, perhaps because I had decreased my swappiness, but I am still not clear on what caused the slowness, which I had never experienced before.
During the (slow) installation process, I got a popup notification that Sticky Keys were enabled. I then got a popup notification that Slow Keys were enabled. However, when I checked my Accessiblity settings, neither Sticky Keys nor Slow Keys were enabled. I also briefly experienced an issue with my keyboard not outputting anything to my screen. For a brief period, when I typed onto the keyboard, nothing was output. This issue later resolved itself.
These issues (unwarranted slowness, odd keyboard behaviour) make me wonder if I have a keylogger and, if so, how I can detect and remove it.
The experienced behavior described, to me, is the behavior that can occur during an installation.
Depending on the hardware this can happen.
Detecting and removing a keylogger/malicious code is not the issue if the assumption is true. If an attacker is able get a keylogger running on the system during install you have larger problems that the detection and removal will not solve.
Explaining your situation better would help, checking your keyboard is fully functional, detected & working as you expect is something I would try to figure out in your case.
This is starting point in detecting, finding and removing a keylogger.
I’m not sure what the problem is you want help with.
There is no information on the type of keyboard, no info on what sort of machine the issues occur on and no logs to help identify issues. Please read the linked post from post #3.
Just beeing curious…
Why the hack do you think you got an keylogger, cause of a laggy system response while doing a fresh install?
If you wiped the disk and used an official manjaro-iso, where should the keyloffer come from?
…and if so, as @zbe mentioned, it would be the worst programmed keylogger I’ve ever heard of…
It wasn’t just the laggy install. It was also odd keyboard behaviour, such as keyboard notifications that didn’t jibe with my keyboard settings, and typing into my keyboard but not getting output. I’ve done numerous fresh installs, but this odd keyboard behaviour and lagginess didn’t happen the other times.
I usually install Manjaro while disconnected from the Internet, but for this install, I happened to be connected to a VPN server in Israel, which is the source of much spyware.