| All comments about keyhook.exe: |
 | Part of SIS VGA driver Windy |
| its a program for the SIS (usually with ASROCK) motherboard drivers. safe |
| Not enough... What does it do , exactly? mts0n |
 | Sis keyboard VGA Daemon. Probably for hot keys as mentioned in the link below. Concerned party |
| SIS graphics cards related: "Super VGA Keyboard Daemon" - hooks into the keyboard processing chain in order to enable hotkey settings. See also: Link Master |
 | keyboard spy Johnny |
| this allow miltimedia keyboards to work with the SIS audio drivers turd flop |
 | It enables the hotkey's on Logictech/MM keyboards David from Australia |
| its using a lot of processor but for what reason I don't know... sure I have SIS installed but nothing to do with my keyboard. stressedout |
| might have been nicer if they called the file "SiS-keyhook" oslt... |
| Probably SIS related, definately harmless Bruce |
 | might be harm- (and use-)less, but older versions ar forcing some programs to crash (eg WordPerfect12 and QuattroPro12). Disabling and/or updating the SIS-driver solves the problem. Michael aus Deutschland |
| for acer laptops your owner |
| sis driver |
| removing it from msconfig has no noticable impact. |
| Not sure for one thing, but you have to be careful it doesn't cut you off the Internet. See also: Link EclipseWebJS2 |
| one of Acer notebook drivers MiMo |
| Part of SIS driver, definately harmless Hugo |
| its a keylogger... i play ragnarok online and get hacked up to now ive disabled the file, and ive never been hacked since Martin |
| its safe ! Foodear |
| it's a keylogger |
| enable hotkey settings See also: Link why? |
| SiS driver |
| keyboard logger edgeist |
| unneccessary keyboard hook, potential security risk moe120 |
| SiS Driver Dein Papa |
| try this: go to taskmanager - process - search for keyhook.exe. when you found it, press 'down' on the cursor keys. the display is now upside down. |
| its Related to SiS Super VGA Keyboard Daemon (harmless) -m3k0 |
| smal red icon with sign "hot" gotcha |
| can be used to spy your keyboard but the original file used by Sis is not dangerous. |
| Acer Laptop multimedia keys. Detects when you hit one of your special laptop keys. Nothing dangerous at all. Michael Santangelo |
| It causes my Acer laptop to freeze up, and I can't connect to the Internet. Ending the process frees up my laptop. Ash from Canada |
| part of SIS vga driver, identified under file properties/version. Found on installation disk of motherboard. But fi you don't have an SIS chipset on your motherboard... MyMaidMary |
| ACER Laptop SIS VGA related. Safe, but sounds ominous. Chris Calgary Canada |
| it's a program that works with Acer Systems Bjkliboy |
| It seems to be attempting to broadcast info Ged |
| Sis driver for hot keys/buttons. Provides functionality for my email/browser etc. buttons on my laptop codem0nkey |
| Divx used to come bundled with Gator which was spyware, it looks from the icon to be an unwanted freebie Geoff |
| Keyhook.exe is harmless if your have SiS VGA Drivers Installed. Dated 08/2003 If not you should worrie. Bob |
| sis component, not needed much, safe to remove. Neil |
| Its a mainbord process but still it can be infected Martijn |
| Its totally safe. not a virus/spyware, mark |
| Keyhook.exe is used to allow multimedia keys on Acer multimedia keyboards to function correctly. If you stop this process all of the 'normal' keys on the keyboard should still function, but the multimedia keys will not. Only stop this process if it is causing instability to your system. Refer to the link. Hope this helps guys! See also: Link eklegein |
 | That name sounds evil...too close to 'kernelhook.exe' Groucho Marx |
| this is so that all the multimedia keys on a Acer multimedia keyboard function proberly, this does not effect the normall keys See also: Link Ed from UK |
| Non essential process that supports the SIS utility Brad |
| It consumes 4MB, way too much for a keyhook. arjan |
| It is just a driver for the SiS VGA..Totally harmless. Hiyy11 |
| Harmless. For multimedia keys on a keyboard. Hoylake Computers |
| It isn't detected by any anti - virus or anti - malware and it doesn't affect my computer thegameplayer |
| Acer Keyboards Multimedia Hotkeys Dusty NZ |
| This program detects when you hit the shortcut keys on your keyboard. Not dangerous. may cause poor system performance. if you don't use the hotkeys on your keyboard regularly, i'd suggest removing it from your startup items. if you don't know how to do that, you can seriously screw your computer if you mess with those too much. Otter from Florida |
| i have an acer laptop with this display driver. one day, quickbooks started crashing. i found that if i stopped keyhook from running, no more quickbook problems. i think it's harmless, but obviously it can cause conflicts. harvey |
| Monitoring our network router - huge traffic load. Killing this server stopped traffic flow. Whatever it is, it's moving tons of data out to the Internet. Paul |
| reinstall your keyboard driver, you'll probably find the error warning go. |
| i though it was a key logger so i killed. but when i did my keyboard stoped working...can anyone explian that? SKY |
| Driver for SIS keyboard daemon JuanKa |
| related to SiS driver, but may cause troubles with other software (e.g. Visual Studio, TeXnicCenter) Erkman |
| ACER Laptop SIS VGA related. Not dangerous turdface |
| it can be keyboard spy Infotec... |
| caused "Multiview2000" to crash on acer laptop/disabling in msconfig fixed problem (fix was found while trial/error killing non-essensial tasks and retesting multiview, when i killed keyhook multiview began working instead of crashing at logon/diabled keyhook in msconfig and multiview hasn't crashed since) -i do note that the path in msconfig was c:\windows\system32\keyhook.exe - am unsure if this is correct loc for acer keyhook so i may have had a trojon(?) andygee51 |
| SIS VGA Driver for sure. Just fixed a comp w/ keyhook.exe, while reinstalling sis vga drivers, I actually saw the "keyhook.exe" being installed Archangellus |
| Part of SiS VGA driver Sony |
| Its an Acer Laptop/notebook driver, dont disable it. FlYrAtEr |
| possable logger but avast rated cleen Adam |
| gererate a log file on c:\ with your activities. possible malicious prog using same name of sis vga utility. gabriel |
| Don't have an Acer, have av Averatec with SIS and keyhook.exe is on my system Paul from Texas |
| It crashes MyLabel Designer 9 on Acer laptop. Turning this process off solves the problem. However, older version 3.0B of MyLabel Designer is not affected by the keyhook.exe. MiK |
| the link i gave has something about keyhook.dll that you may want to know See also: Link |
| This is for the SIS Video - but nice that trend micro flags it as questionable michel |
| if it is not dangerous, whe doesn't it show up on sis.com Jeff |
| does exactly what its sound like. its basically a driver and is used by lots of programs for keyboard shortcuts Luke Cann |
| Re-install Sis vga driver - works fine for me. Gus Hennings |
| Default when reloading Acer, but known issues with keyboard and mouse input. Locking up Acer Aspire 3000. Can be safely disabled and renamed in c:\windows\system32. After doing so, no issues are experienced in performance. TechJosh |
| Dangerous for online gamers (login information). Deleted once and some how it came a few houres later back. Fredosh |
| It's for Logitech Keyboards, it is safe. Disable it if you think it is causing you problems. or just disable it to test if your special keys on the keyboard work or not with it disabled. |
| It is a normal process but it can be reconfigured as a key logger. If it appears to be running for no reason, remove it. |
| Its harmless, the problem is its name is similar to something harmful (a keylogger). It comes from an older era thus the name is associated with modern spyware etc, thats the nature of that type of programming, they try to hide it as something you should have. SiS video drivers, Acer launch and keyboard hotkeys use the file name. I have all three of those, and have the error message at startup after trying to update the video driver direct from SiS website. "The file Keyhook.dll is not in the SysAp something or other". See also: Link |
| SiS driver Fresh installes system without internet connection Installer |
| Either a keylogger, or a hotkey program Caffeinecoder |
| a part of the Super VGA Keyboard Daemon software from Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), an OEM chip maker rbaev |
| everyone keeps saying acer, logitec, I have none of those on this computer, aopen keyboard, Microcrap mouse, generic MB, only thing is sis video card drivers, that shouldn't have anything to do with my keyboard Tirreal |
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