What is Keylogging?

" Keylogging is a spyware trick used by intruders to keep an eye on your daily activities like your credentials, websites visited by you and thereafter dispatched to the intruders through emails. "

Keylogging is a trick used in security breach by hackers. People always entrap in keylogging because they don't know what is going on, in their background process. In key logging snap shots of your activities and keystrokes or keys pressed by you also stored in a record or database and finally dispatched to the person or intruder who messed up with your system. It stores data in a well format so that anybody can get it.

It captures your credentials like user name and password or bank account details and eventually send it to the intruder as you connect to the Internet. Now, suppose if you are doing online payments or checking your bank details online, your password is directly passing to the intruders. Now you can guess how much it can harm you. It is very easy and effective exploit I have also used it. The above was the basic purpose it might be anything else based on intruder's intention.

Steps to get rid of keylogging

1. Use virtual on screen keyboard in order to save you from keystroke capturing.
2. Use anti spyware or anti-malware to block keylogger softwares. Kespersky, Avira, Malware bytes and windows defenders are anti spyware softwares.
3. Use or enable your firewall to protect you from outside access.
4. Also check your programs installed by you time to time to remove such keyloggers from your system, usually they named with keylogger.

Note

"Don't use it to mess up with somebody data. This post is only for study purpose. Do it on your own risk. My recommendations, never use it for any exploitation except study."

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