Articles of category "Key Logger"

One of the basic and most common ways of hacking someone’s password or credit card information is through keyloggers and the main reason of keylogger infections is usually visiting online matchmaking websites or websites with loads of ads popping up. Hackers do this just for the sake of having fun while logging other people’s keystrokes or breaking into their computers without their knowing consent and it’s a fact that anyone who uses internet can become a victim.

Would it scare you, if there was a malicious software program (malware) that could capture your keystrokes that you used on your computer? What kind of information do you think people could find out about you, if they could read your keystrokes among other things? Well the bad news is, there is such a program, and it is out there right now. Of course, key loggers are not always bad, they can be used for good things too, but in the wrong hands they could cause bad trouble. There are ways that you can prevent key loggers from getting on your computer and recording your information.

A keylogger is a type of malicious software that can infect the victim's system and keep a log of keystrokes made on the user's keyboard. The primary purpose of a keylogger is to track these keystrokes in the hopes of coming across a user's credit card number or password or other important information and then sending those numbers back to the person profiting from the keylogger.

Data logger is a kind of software to track data. These applications are able to track your activity to send it later to the developer of the program. What this means is that the creator of such an application is powered to know what you are doing when at your computer, track the documents you open, websites you visit and keystrokes you do. Sound unpleasant, true? Well, that is the sad truth of the modern life enchanted with the Internet.