Saturday, December 22, 2007

Protect yourself against keyloggers

Besides protecting your System additional measures that can be taken
are:
Monitoring what programs are running on your computer
Monitor your network whenever an application attempts to make a
network connection.
Use an automatic form filler program that prevent keylogging since
they're not using the keyboard.

There are commercially available anti-keyloggers, such as
PrivacyKeyboard:
http://www.anti-keylogger.com.
It uses the methods of heuristic analysis and has no signature base.
PrivacyKeyboard's features:
* No signature base;
* Protection against windows text capturing;
* Protection against keystroke logging;
* Protection against clipboard capturing;
* Protection against active window screenshoting;
* Protection against desktop screenshoting;
* Protection against attacks of spy programs;
* Protection against hardware keyloggers;
* Full UNICODE support;
* The ability to work at the background, transparently for the
user
* The ability to disable keyloggers instantly

Problem is you'll have to part with $89.95 ...

but if you're looking for a free alternative try:
- Spybot Search & Destroy, a freeware tool that does a pretty decent
job at detecting all kinds of spyware.
Latest update protects against the following Keyloggers:
+ Perfect Keylogger
+ Ardamax
+ Elite Keylogger

http://www.safer-networking.org/

Windows Defender, a free program that helps protect your computer
against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by
spyware: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx

The Sysinternals web site hosts several utilities to help you manage,
troubleshoot and diagnose Windows systems and applications.
Utilities for looking under the hood to see what processes are doing
and the resources they are consuming:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...s/default.mspx

In this article:
http://www.lazybit.com/index.php/a/2...ger_protection
Alex provides some free and valuable advice about keylogging
protection such as using the on-screen keyboard available in W2000 and
XP that can be launched by executing "osk" or the technique of mouse
highlighting and overwriting.

Or you can also download Click-N-Type virtual keyboard free from:
http://www.lakefolks.org/cnt/

Also worth reading is Wikipedia's article on Keystroke logging:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging

http://magikomputer.blogspot.com/200...rotection.html

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