Comments on: How to defeat a keylogger

By: Phaoloo

Phaoloo — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:51:54 +0000

Nice tips, Neo Safekeys works fine for me. Use Keepass or other password keeper to fill the form instead of typing it is an another simple and effective way.

By: Jeff S

Jeff S — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:32:17 +0000

QFX Keyscrambler is buggy. sometimes it works and then it does not. not a real confidence builder when that happens. but when it works it seems good. like right now it should be working. but its not. and it is on. oh well. its free so hard to complain.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:15:57 +0000

nice tool, will try it.

By: briss

briss — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:02:30 +0000

If on a website, you set it to remember your password, so you dont have to type it every time, is that OK or are there ways that the password can be stolen?

By: Aicorp

Aicorp — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:35:25 +0000

These aren’t really meathods, just programs that help.
Why not post a method, such as telling people that when you were typing in a password (if you in the suspicious mood) do it like this.
Say the password is abc123. Type in ab124 then point your mouse in between the 2nd and 3rd letter (since all you can see is *****) and type “c” so now you have abc124. Then click at the end, move over one, type 3 then delete the last one (4). This would result in you having the password in the field, and the keylogger would recieve [(click) ab124 (click) c (click) (left) 4 (right) (backspace)].
Its harder to get a password out of that then out of [(click) username (click) abc123 (click)]
That is a method.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:55:42 +0000

Wow this is going straight onto my thumbdrive! I hate using public computers, but when I have to, this is going to make me feel a lot better about logging into important accounts! Great post! Thanks!

By: yourmom

yourmom — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:36:27 +0000

or you could just reinstall windows and not click on sites that would install keylogger afterwards?

By: $hadow

$hadow — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:07:43 +0000

The Windows Screen Keyboard doesn’t help in the case of most keyloggers. however an online screen keyboard, as mentioned, must help.

By: teayourself

teayourself — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:27:42 +0000

In regards to onscreen keyboards, i stumbled accross a key logger the other day that had the option to screen capture an area around your mouse pointer when you clicked. So dont count on the screen keyboards

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:52:51 +0000

Method 5: Install ubuntu (linux) on your computer, and use that instead of windows…. wubi is the easiest way of doing that.

By: Hevach

Hevach — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:41:37 +0000

Not sure about keykatcher, but it might not work for some of them. Some better made software keyloggers, particularly ones made to target specific programs aren’t fooled by this. MMORPG forums often have the advice of pasting your password into the password box so they keylogger doesn’t detect any keystrokes typed into the window, so somebody made a keylogger that would detect the paste and get the password out of the clipboard instead.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:00:35 +0000

Isn’t this only valid for software keystroke loggers? I don’t think these methods will detect a hardware based logger like keykatcher

By: Pavan Kumar

Pavan Kumar — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:51:00 +0000

Even windows on screen keyboard is also a good option. This post is very much useful for all users. Hence stumbled….

By: Deccan Journalist

Deccan Journalist — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:54:00 +0000

Does this give a complete fool proof solution for it?