Tuesday, December 14, 2010

How to steal.. online: Keylog

I have a painful experience of having my bank account stolen online a couple years ago. It was about 120 dollars, a big amount to me as a high school teenager at that time . Anger and upset, I promised to myself that i wont let those thieves online touch my thing ever again. So i did a little research about methods to steal online . One of them was using keylogger.

Keylogger is a general name of softwares that track and record the activity of your keyboard ( they can also take pictures of your screen in case the victim use a virtual keyboard) . It stores all the inputs of the victim and send them to the stealer through the internet and that how all of your passwords , emails, bank account fail into those online thieves. Keyllogger programs have various way to infiltrate your machine system. It can be in an advertisement link, a spam email that the victims accidentally clicked on whey they surf the internet. The terrible thing is there is no way to make sure that your computer are cleaned. Keyllogger programs can disguise and fool even the anti-keylogger program.

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