Clipboard Monitoring Demo for IE5

This demo illustrates how it is possible to create an HTML page in Internet Explorer 5 that monitors what text is put on the Windows clipboard. The page logs the information to a text box on the screen. However with a little more JavaScript code this logging information could easy be sent to another person via an Email message, a newsgroup posting, or a form submitted to a Web site. This page does everything in the open. However, combined with a lurker window this demo could be turned into a very potent spying device which can be delivered by an innocent-looking Email message in Outlook or Outlook Express.

To get idea what sort of problems this type of spying page presents, start it up on your own system and let it run in the background for a few hours.

Thanks to Juan Carlos Garcia Cuartango for information about this privacy leak with the Windows clipboard in Internet Explorer 5.