Two former Marquette students have been arrested for and have admitted to installing spyware on university computers in February of this year.

The suspects are under investigation for installing applications which were able to log keystrokes and capture images of the user’s screen on two campus computers. Key-stroke logging applications allow a user to know which buttons and items another person uses most often.

“We alerted the Milwaukee Police Department in early February of an alleged computer crime that took place on campus involving two university-owned computers,” said Kate Venne, a university spokesperson, in an email.

According to a Journal Sentinel report, the affidavit says that one of the suspects “claimed to have only done this for learning about how the program worked, and that he viewed information from another user of the computer that was unaware that her information was being captured.” The report also cited that one of the suspects was a computer science graduate student at Marquette.

The university’s Information Technology Services could not give comment on the investigation as of press time. This kind of computer tampering goes against the university’s student code of conduct which bars “engaging in the theft of, misuse of, damage to or destruction of institutional, group or private property, including library materials, computers or computerized information on university-owned or operated premises, at university-sponsored events or off-campus.”

“Marquette University takes any allegation of misuse of technology extremely seriously and carefully monitors all aspects of its information technology systems,” Venne said.

The university said no campus databases or servers were affected. As of Monday the suspects — who are not currently enrolled at Marquette — had not been charged.