Wednesday 14 December 2011

Keylogger is Dangerous

KeyLogger is a dangerous part of our life in the web world
             As everybody is aware about the keylogger that what it is and what it does to our personal information.Key Logger in short can be defined as a device which keeps the LOG(record) i.e bank passwords email password and also more activities we perform in our computer.
             KeyLogger can be a hardware device or a software application which steals our information.
Hardware Device :
            This is the hardware device how it looks like shown below. It is just like a black pin which is attached before the pin of your keyboard so as to record your keyboard strokes. what you type with that attached keyboard is stored by that device as a log file.
NOTE :  Those person who uses cybercafe for logins or some web activities must see if this kind of black pin is attached with the keyboard pin at back of he CPU. If it is kindly remove it or do not use that system.





Software Application :  
        An software application can be any application which performs an background activities on your system to store the information of your personal. It performs background so cannot be seen or find out but it can be detect from the Task Manager activities.
NOTE :  If the keylogger is an application then just check the background activities of how much cpu usage is done by the task manager process.

How to take care from keylogger !
           If you cannot detect the keylogger or you are afraid of typing your sensitive data.
             1)Have a good or better antivirus/antimalware.
             2)Some antivirus provides virtual keyboard use that for prevention.
            3)Use Microsoft on-screen keyboard for microsoft user by pressing windows+U you will get an on-screen virtual keyboard.


            If you want to try the keylogger by yourself you can download free keylogger from google search but before downloading the keylogger please disable your antivirus because keylogger is considered as an Virus/Threat/Trojan.

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