Some Important Tips to Save Your Computer from Keylogger

In the internet there is always a risk of being hacked. There are thousands hackers who always try to get you in their trap and steal all the information from your computer. There are many malwares, Trojans, spywares to do so. One of the popular application that are generally used by those evils is Keylogger.

Also read: Some Important Steps To Remove Virus Manually From Your Computer.

What is Keylogger?

Key logger is a software used by the companies to track their employees’ activity and also by the families to monitor the activity of their family member, friends or relative. But the Cyber criminals use this software illegally to steal your important information from your computer like user name, password, credit card no, bank account no etc. The keylogger may be installed directly in your machine by any person who know you. Some Trojans viruses are expert to install the keylogger in your machine without your consent. Hackers used to like the second one. It is very hard to know for any user whether any keylogger is installed in their computer or not. After installation of the key logger it records every key strike of the user and sends them to the particular location by email or ftp defined by the installer. There are two types of keyloggers hardware and software keyloggers. where hardware keylogger needs to be attached directly to the computer the software keyloggers may be installed remotely by the Trojans. You might also like to read Check Torrent for Virus.

The general cases in which your computer may be infected by the keylogger

1. The malicious websites are famous to drop the Trojans into the user’s computer.
2. The attachment files of the email are sometime contains the Trojans.
3. If the computer is already infected with the Trojans then it downloads the keylogger automatically and sends the information to the hackers.
4. When you are downloading  from any peer to peer network then there is always a  possibility of downloading the keylogger automatically.

How to get rid from the Trojans that install keylogger in your machine

There are many popular internet security suits and Antivirus program that identify the keylogger and remove them from you computer. There may be some hesitation in your mind when you are making some important transactions in web. Here is some pretty secured processes I’ve discussed to protect your keystrokes from the keylogger.

• Use Virtual keyboard for your secure web transactions In such situation the bank or trusted money transaction authorities offer to use the virtual keyboard. The virtual keyboards are highly secured in the net where you have to use the user name password. In virtual keyboard the character position is changed every time so the keylogger can’t do anything in this situation. Neo’s Safekeys 2008 is a virtual keyboard utility. You have to use the mouse to select the keyword from this keyboard. So the keylogger has nothing to do here. Neo’s safekeys 2008 is available in both portable and full version. The portable version does not require any installation just carry in the USB drive and use it. The second one requires installation in the computer.

Download portable version

Download full version.

You can also use click N type Virtual keyboard and Windows On screen keyboard to out from  keyloggers with mouse to enter data online.

• Encrypt the Keystrokes: There is available an add-on KeyScrambler personal for both IE and Firefox to encrypt the keystrokes. So if the hackers manage to get the keystrokes by the keylogger then that will not be in any use.

Besides these there are many software like Snoopfree Privacy shield, Myplanetsot anti-Keylogger, IObit Security 360 and AD-aware free edition to protect your computer from the keylogger as well as the evil persons.