What is keylogger and how is it dangerous? This is a spyware program that hackers and other computer crooks use to obtain passwords and logins from user accounts on the Internet. You yourself understand what this may be fraught with.
Instructions
Step 1
Be vigilant. The most reliable way to detect a keylogger is to resist provocation. What is meant. Do not open suspicious letters coming to your email inbox, do not go to questionable resources on the Internet, etc. A little more detail on suspicious emails so that you understand what is at stake. Users of the social network VKontakte regularly receive email notifications about this or that update: someone left a private message, a new comment, etc. These messages are completely harmless, unlike those in which, supposedly, a user of the same network asks you to see a photo, attaching a link to it. As soon as you follow this link, you will be "thrown out" from the site. When you go to it again, information about your username and password will be sent to an unknown address. If you still fall for such a bait, change your password as soon as possible.
Step 2
Install and regularly update your antivirus to find the keylogger. This is probably the most reliable means of fighting keyloggers. But do not think that if you have antivirus installed on your computer, you can relax.
Step 3
You need to work with him in cooperation. Antivirus software can only detect a potential threat, and it is up to you to decide what to do with it. There is an option to set automatic deletion of all files and connections that pose a threat to your system in the antivirus settings, but then there is a risk that the necessary files will also be deleted, so in order to effectively fight keylogger, regularly check and filter lists of potential threats.
Step 4
The most reliable way to hide the login and password from a site of particular value from a keylogger is a virtual keyboard. Everything is very simple, the keylogger cannot recognize the signal that comes from it, so all the information that you will enter from the on-screen keyboard will remain a complete mystery to the spy.
Step 5
To activate the onscreen keyboard, go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, Accessibility, Onscreen Keyboard.
