Protecting Your Computer From Keyloggers

The combination of the words KEY and LOGGER has turned the internet world into a protect yourself place. Keyloggers have made the internet an unsafe place for people like you and I. Any time you enter your secret codes like your password or  The key your credit card details online, you are at risk of becoming a victim of keyloggers. The programme called keylogger is used by cyber stalkers. They are also called hackers. They use these programms to steal your confidential information. Now you know why you have to be alert.

Apart from the fact that key loggers are used to cheat and steal, Which is the wrong way of using it,it can be used the right way by parents to monitor the activities of their children online.

 How can key logger get to your computer?

It can be installed on your computer by a hacker or stalker. It can be manually or automatically. It can get to your computer automatically in form of a Trojan, Worm or a Virus. They can be used to steal your personal information like: Account number, passwords, and they can even create credit cards in your name.

It can also get to your computer through Malware, malicious software, and can attack your computer via email or a file-sharing system, such as a music downloading site. Visiting an insecure website or downloading software that is apparently legitimate. All of these can also put your computer at risk.

The primary goal of key loggers is to steal information from your computer undiscovered, it is therefore not easy to detect their presence.

Below are some methods through which you can protect your computer:

Install a Good Antivirus

This is the first step you need to take in order to protect your computer is to use a good antivirus such as kaspersky, Norton or MCAFEE and update it regularly.

Install a Good Antispyware

Since keyloggers are basically spywares, you could be exposed to thousands of keyloggers and spywares. Thank God, software developers are now making new anti-spyware software for tracking keyloggers. So you should use a good anti-spyware such as Trend Micro Antivirus plus Antis-pyware 2011. Good anti-spyware will protect your computer against known viruses, worms, and Trojans of all types.

Use Anti-loggers

Anti-loggers are programs that detect the presence of  key loggers on a computer. One of the tested and best working anti-logger program is Max Anti-logger.

Max Anti-logger

Normally a keylogger can be easily detected by a Good Antivirus program, but hackers use some methods such as hexing, binding, crypting and similar techniques to make it harder to be detected by antivirus programs. In this case Max Antilogger comes handy as the program is specially developed to protect your system against harmful keyloggers.

Online Scanning

When ever you receive a suspicious file, I advise you scan it with online scanners such as Multiengine antivirus scanner which scans your file with 24 antivirus engines and reports it back to you if the file is recognized as a virus or spyware. This ensures that no malicious program can escape from being detected because there are 24 different antivirus engines involved in the scanning process.

Change your computer's Default Settings to Limited - User - Mode

If you are using are using windows XP operating system, Your PC's default setting may likely be set as Administrator Mode. This gives anyone the ability to install anything on your computer. In order to protect your computer from key loggers, you have to change the settings to "Limited User."

Change it by following these steps:

1. Go to "start," choose "control panel."

2. Double click on "user accounts."

3. Select "create new accounts."

4. Give the new account a name and click next

5.  Choose limited as the account type and you are done.

Sandboxie

Sandboxie is another great program to help you protect your computer against harmful keyloggers and spywares. Sandboxie runs your computer in an isolated space which prevents your program from making permanent changes to other programs in your computer.
When ever you receive a file that looks suspicious, just run the program with Sandboxie so even if it is a keylogger or any other virus it will not make permanent changes to your computer system.



To run a program in Sandboxie follow the steps as mentioned below:
1. Open sandboxie and click on sandbox menu on the top
2. Now go to Default sandbox
3. Then click on run any program
4. Now select the file you wish to run in sandboxie and click open

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