How Does A Keylogger Work - Better Or Worse?

A keylogger are software designed to record everything you type on the keyboard such as passwords

, user names, emails, credit card numbers and etc. Don't have any idea how does a keylogger work?

Keyloggers are not always used by criminals or hackers, some company's use a keylogger to track their employee's activity and to monitor the use of the company's computers and Internet by the employees. It will depend on exact company policy but whether these programs are used or not may not be public knowledge within the firm.

One of the advantage of the keylogger is that it can be used for back-up purposes in case of system crash, it is useful to know that you are always have a back-up of whatever you type.

Disadvantage of a keylogger, most hackers uses this kind of software to steal their victim's personal information. It is a very harmful program when it is in the wrong hand because it runs almost invisibly as a low level system process. This program usually starts up when your computer is booted, so there is no way for you to detect it. Keyloggers are especially dangerous to anyone who uses online cash sites such as Pay pal for a large amount of money.

Tips on how to recover a keylogger on your system:

o Check your task widow if there are unusual running task, to do this you need to open the task window by pressing ctrl+alt+del on the windows.

o Work with the system configuration utility to locate task that are turned on when the computer is booted on the start up.

o Run your anti-virus software, it is possible to locate and pick up the keylogger.

Once you have found the harmful software, it is better to remove it. Click the process and then click the "End Process" button towards the bottom right. The process you have selected should be terminated immediately. After you have stopped the keylogger, run anti-virus to check your entire computer. However, advanced keyloggers can often get through this entire process and maintain undetected.

To know if your computer is safe from keylogger is to restart your computer and check if the name of the keylogger is still visible when your computer starts and boots up.

by: Trevor Johnson..

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