How to prevent keylogger from stealing your information

If our computer or laptop has an antivirus installed and it is updated from time to time, chances of our system being penetrated by keyloggers are pretty much low. Perhaps you might come across this term previously but for those who don't, keylogger or "keystroke logger" is a rather nasty tool used primarily to invade into our sensitive information by collecting every single stroke made on our keyboard. As mentioned earlier, this is not really a big issue if you are using your own computer, but the chance of falling into keylogger's trap is relatively high when you are computer at public area especially at a internet cafe.

Here are 2 method that can be used to effectively eliminate the attempt made keyloggers to register our strokes.

1. Neo’s Safekeys

Neo’s Safekeys is a really small program (merely 8kb) yet effective. Simply click on the letters and it types the character into the white box at the bottom. Then you can drag the password into the password field for your email or paypal or whatever form you are trying to access. It's a perfect solution.

Here are few more advantages of using this small program. The utility changes width and height each time, as well as its placement on the screen (to fool mouse-loggers, buttons will always be in different positions each time you use the program) with no data stored and it's completely FREE.

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2. Online Keyboard

Alternatively you may use Online Keyboard (javascript) which work the same way as Neo’s Safekeys. Virtual Keyboard is the great thing when you can't install or use additional keyboard layouts bundled with your OS. For example, you're at the internet cafe where only En/US layout is available and you want to write some letters to your Russian, Korean, Japanese or any other friends. Yes, you can just transliterate your writing, but this will take much more time than you ever expect and makes reading boring.

This is the case to have the VirtualKeyboard installed on a site: you just open it and begin typing. Virtual keyboard will do the translation/transliteration job for you on the fly. The same goes to the search engines, forums, webmail systems and much other online and offline applications. It makes a sense, to integrate tiny app there and make life easier for you and your customers.

These two methods will help you in providing more secured environment for you to do your mundane jobs even at new place. Happy surfing!

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