XP, Linux and Keyloggers

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I posted the following a Linux NG.
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A friend believes that someone put a h/w keylogger on her laptop (Vista). She doesn't have the experience to pull apart the laptop to find it, and I'm too far away to help. She's recently had trouble with restoring Win Vista to the laptop, and it may be because her install DVDs are bad. To get her back on her feet, I told her to install Fedora, which she is in the process of doing. My question is how likely is that the keylogger will be effective under Linux? I might think 0, since it seems likely a h/w keylogger would more likely built for Win than Linux. Comments?
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There were many responses to this. Probably most of them thought the OS doesn't make a difference, but there were a few who disagreed, or maybe got tangled in the complexities of. Several days my friend called, and updated me on the matter. I summarize it here.
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She met a fellow who has extensive experience with h/w and s/w, and he opened the laptop, and found several places where unconventional items appear. He told her that installing neither Linux or Vista would help, but XP would. Tomorrow they will finish off the XP install. I guess what I'd like to see is turning the table on the culprit by using whatever these items are to trace back to him.
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Several posts followed that disagreed that XP would make a difference. Does it?

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