Tuesday, February 19, 2008

MagiKomputer: Keyloggers protection

Keylogging works by recording the keystrokes you type on the keyboard to a log file that can be transmitted to a third party. Keyloggers can capture user names, passwords, account numbers, social security numbers or any other confidential information that you type using your keyboard.
There are two types of Keystroke loggers:

Hardware key loggers are devices that are attached to the keyboard cable or installed inside the keyboard. There are commercially available products of this kind, even dedicated keyboards with key logging functionality.
Software key loggers are usually simple programs that can capture the keystrokes the user is typing, They can also record mouse clicks, files opened and closed, sites visited on the Internet, etc. A more advanced type of key loggers can also capture text from windows and make screenshots of what displayed on the screen.



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MagiKomputer: Keyloggers protection

1 comment:

TyVa said...

Here is a great anti-keylogger, called PrivacyKeyboard(http://www.anti-keylogger.com). The main its advantage is thу principle of its work, based on methods of heuristic analysis. This means it analysez all the active modules on your PC and blocks the suspicious ones. This also means it doesn't have signatures, so it is able to protect the PC from all the ypes of keyloggers. For example if one donloads a well-known keylogger, add a simple function to it usch a keylogger will become unknown to all the signature-based anti-keyloggers. As PrivacyKeyboard uses heuristic even this keylogger will be blocked. What is also very important it is also bale to protect you from hardware keyloggers by the means of its VirtualKeyboard. So..this is probably the best anti-keylogger I've ever seen!