Originally Posted by Noxarious
Flarin one of friends got hacked, a GM told her husband to try to start a scan while wow launcher was active and they did indeed find the infection
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^^ This
And also start it when you have world of warcraft up and something typed into the login and password box.
Many keyloggers will monitor system events in some way to make them undetectable until you have something typed into those fields.
Also despite common misconceptions copying and pasting your password does nothing to defeat a keylogger.
Getting the contents of the pasteboard (which is the area of your computer where copied stuff goes for pasting) is fairly trivial in most computer languages. It's just assigning a value to a variable. In programming terms its actually harder to figure out what to name a function call or variable then it is to get the contents of the pasteboard.
if it's that easy then you can bet your bottom dollar a keylogger would include code to do this. Not really that hard once you think about it just wait till wow.exe is active then grab the contents of the keyboard at a particular point.