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3 Simple Tricks To Prevent Keylogger From Stealing Your Password

Keylogger or keystroke logging software is a software that installed in a computer to track of log the key struck on keyboard. Normally Keylogger does not appear as a windows, instead it resides in computer memory. The computer user who use keyboard may not aware their actions are actually being monitored.

It is pretty insecure to use a computer if the computer is being installed keylogger intentionally or unintentionally (a as kind of spyware). This is especially true when we are using computer of people we do not know or when we are using a public computer (e.g. cybercafé). The sensitive data like password and credit cards information.

Most of the time we are not allowed install any software at public computer. Therefore we can't install any anti keylogger software or keylogger removal software to prevent the threat from happen.

The things we could only do is to use a trusted computer and be careful when using other untrusted computer. Below are the 3 simple tricks that we can use to avoid a keylogger from logging the sensitive information we type when using the untrusted computer.

Use Keyboard and Mouse Trick
When typing a sensitive information in a text field, you try to fool around with the keylogger by the combination actions of mouse and keyboard. For example, when you type abcefg for your password, you can type a then click at other place or switch to other program (e.g. notepad) and then type z and repeat the two steps until you have finished typing your password. Then the keylogger will record az.... which is a invalid password. Another way to fool around the keylogger would be to play around with the position of characters in your password (e.g. type b first then use mouse to move the text caret to first position to type a and so on).

Use On-Screen Keyboard
Windows comes with a program called On-Screen Keyboard. You can use the On-Screen Keyboard to "click" in the characters you want into the text field. The keyboard works as a virtual keyboard for you computer. In case you worry the On-Screen Keyboard send the click events to the text field as keyboard events, you can alway use On-Screen Keyboard together with the "mouse and keyboard" trick.

Use Portable Browser
You can take your portable browsers (like Google Chrome and Firefox) together with your USB drive. These browsers come with a feature call "remember password" that you can use to login into your email without keying anything .Then you can use this application safely at cybercafé's computer or any public computer which is shared with other users. Be sure you key in an save the sensitive information at home or at a trusted computer before use it at untrusted computer.

Hope you find this 3 simple tricks useful to you. Do leave me a comment know if you have a great trick on preventing keylogger (without installing any keylogger removal or anti keylogger software).

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