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Mri Dyes · 1 year ago

Quite a useful article! Especially for those that have to deal much with passwords storing/entering that refer to money accounts. It's been reported too many occasions about money frauds nowadays to ignore such advices.

Kit · 1 year ago

I agree that the free version of AVG is great. I also use the paid version of TrojanHunter which catches things none of the others do. As for public computers, I am off on a vacation later this summer and I plan to try out the 'portable' version of firefox on a USB stick to do my broswing in Internet cafe's to minnimise the information left on the public computer.

Bull3t · 1 year ago

The reason I suggest using more than one anti-virus and anti-spyware program is to - in theory - stop those few slipping through the cracks. However, even this doesn't always work; you really need to keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware systems up to date and do a full system scan regularly.

Land Projects UK · 1 year ago

Definitely right, and I think this is violation to one's privacy.
And each one should be aware and take necessary actions in order to avoid especially confidential information.

Fotobuch · 1 year ago

Thaks for your nice tips about protection from keyloggers.

Cabe · 1 year ago

Great tips and links, thank you very much for posting these. I will use them for the files I download. I do not want anyone using my name and information to steal my identity.

Masslogics · 1 year ago

Not so long ago I was attacked by keyloggers. My email got hacked and some other informations but later I had to format the Hard drive from getting more damage.
now I am using Anti-vir Antivirus and I am on the safe hood now.

Anyways, these are great tips and I hope to follow and try it very soon.

Stefanie · 1 year ago

Great, informative article. I was using AVG Free Edition when I was on Windows.

xinoa · 1 year ago

ahh, great tips. Many times have I downloaded files with keyloggers in them. This is very dangerous, if you do online banking, or buy items online.

beth in greensboro · 1 year ago

Personally I'm most fond of the keyboard keyloggers that can be placed in-line with the keyboard cable behind the computer. Even your boss won't suspect anything unless they physically catch you extracting the keylogger.

Bill G · 1 year ago

Good tutorial. Excellent for the non tech-savvy person!

GDath · 1 year ago

Wow thats scary only 40% found it as malware. That is a great tip about using online scanners, I thought notron software was as good as any other, but I guess I need to check multiple sources.

Kathy Crispi · 1 year ago

That is a great tip. Keylogging software can steal your bank information and get you into trouble. This is good advice.

Darla · 1 year ago

Ever since I upgraded to Vista I have been using AVG and it seems to work great. In the past I used Ad-Aware and it seemed to work as well.

Kodi · 1 year ago

You only wrote the bad sides of keyloggers.
But you should also write the other side.

Keylogger can also be used for a good purpose.
I myself use a keylogger to watch my kids activities over the internet.
It really helps me.

Mike Jensen · 1 year ago

I frequently travel and I once became a victim of keylogger software when I forgot to bring my notebook and I don’t have a choice but to access my email in an Internet Café… the person who hacked my email sent malicious messages to most of my contacts. Good thing, I am not using that particular email address in my financial transactions.

z3zim4 · 1 year ago

I dont myself download anything and every time I do, I check it for viruses. Of course it would be horrible to have keylogger, because even using difficult passwords wouldnt help :(

vuscando · 1 year ago

Here are some tips for confusing and avoiding software keyloggers:

Let’s say we have to enter a password ‘lake’.

1. Click the password box, type any random key. Select the entered random key with the mouse and type l. So we entered the first letter of the password.
2. Click the password box, type a random key. Again click and type a random key. Select the last two letters with your mouse and type the next valid key of your password.

In this case we managed to enter 2 unwanted characters as against one in the first step.

Continue in a similar way to finish typing the password. You can choose any number of random characters between your password.

Note how we used unwanted mouse clicks so that a mouse click is recorded before the random letters also. You can also experiment entering the password in the reverse order, infact any order.

This method can be used for entering the username too, since most banks have account numbers as username. If you are suffering from some keylogger phobia, use this technique while typing the url too.

Another way is utilizing the browser’s search bar or address bar to camouflage the password.
For eg. Click the password box and type a letter of the password. Now click the browser’s address bar or search bar and type some unwanted letters. Alternate between the password box and address/search bar till you finish. The result will be the same as the former method.

hookey4 · 1 year ago

Another good software to detect these type of programs is Spybot Search and Destroy. I have used it with good results.

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charlemont · 1 year ago

I find it ridiculous that many PC owners prefer installing all kinds of trials and demos and “free scan” of programs, and what’s worse - they’re advised to install as many security programs as possible. In my experience, a web scanner sometimes if a better choice. It’s easy to try a dozen of virus scanners, and in many cases they really help to remove malware.
But of course none of these services provide real-time protection. They’re mostly for additional testing and energency cases.

Jagad Guru Chris Butler · 1 year ago

I've been meaning to download Ad-Aware, but I keep forgetting. Thanks for the reminder. It's really too bad we have to deal with all this stuff.

chi · 1 year ago

If you're at a public place, I assume a key logger is installed. What I usually do is type out the whole alphabet in notepad with special characters and cases then I copy and paste BOTH my username and passsword which helps defeat keylogging. It doesn't help though if they're also logging screen shots. :(

Topherd account1003 · 1 year ago

I am into web designing and internet marketing in Goa, India. If I am using a public computer I try and type the characters of the password alternately with another random character and then delete the extra characters (which I can identify since they are placed alternately)I guess it should work.