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How to Protect Your Computer from Keyloggers

Protect from keyloggers

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Keyloggers have been a major problem today as it does not require any prior knowledge of computers to use it. So, it is often used by hackers to steal passwords, credit card numbers and other confidential data from your computer. Below are some methods through which you can protect your computer from keyloggers:

1. Use a Good Antivirus

This is the first and the basic step that you need to take in order to protect your computer from keyloggers and other online threats. Use a good antivirus such as Kaspersky, Norton or McAfee and update it regularly.

2. Use a Good Antispyware

If you are a frequent Internet user, then you could be exposed to a number of spywares on a regular basis. Since keylogger is basically a spyware, it is better to install a good antispyware program. Make sure that the antivirus and the antispyware you use do not conflict with each other.

3. Antilogger can be Handy

Antiloggers are the programs that detect the presence of keyloggers on a given computer. Over the past few years, I have tested a lot of anti-logging programs and have found Zemana Antilogger as the best one.

Normally, a keylogger can easily be detected by a good antivirus program, but hackers may use some methods such as hexing, binding or crypting to make it harder for the antivirus program to detect it. In this case, Zemana Antilogger comes handy as this program is specially designed to protect your PC against harmful keyloggers.

Zemana Antilogger

4. Online Scanning

When ever you receive a suspicious file, you scan it with online scanners such as Multi engine antivirus scanner which scans your file with 24 popular antivirus engines and reports it back to you if the file is recognized as a virus or spyware. This ensures that none of the malicious programs can escape from being detected as there are 24 different antivirus engines involved in the scanning process.

5. Use Sandboxie

Sandboxie is another great program to help you protect your computer against harmful keyloggers and spywares. Sandboxie runs your computer in an isolated space which prevents your program from making permanent changes to other programs in your computer.

When ever you receive a file that looks suspicious, just run the program with Sandboxie so that, you can test it without the risk of making permanent changes to your computer.

Sandboxie

To run a program in Sandboxie, follow the steps as mentioned below:

  1. Open the Sandboxie tool and click on sandbox menu on the top.

  2. Now go to Default sandbox.

  3. Then click on run any program.

  4. Now select the file you wish to run in sandboxie and click open.

6. Keyscrambler

Keyscrambler is one of the best program that offers protection against keyloggers. It is a small program which encrypts your keystrokes so that, even if your computer has a keylogger installed on it, only the encrypted keystrokes are captured by the keylogger and not the actual ones.

The free version of Keyscrambler currently supports Firefox, IE and a few other applications. However its premium version supports more than 160 applications.

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  5. Great Info ……..Thanks
    Some type of Trojans (Password Sending Trojan, Key Loggers Trojan)
    logs victims Keystroke and send the log files to the attacker.

  7. hi srikanth,i installed the antivirus(norton),anti spyware(noadware),antilogger(zemana) as u recommended and all of them are upto date,does that make my system free from all kinds of harmful content?And is it necessary to scan the received files using online scanners,can we also scan with the antivirus that is installed on our system…?Which is more recommended…?plz make this clear to me,bye,take care….

    • @ manoj kumar

      There is no need to scan each file you download or transfer to your computer since Norton supports autoprotect feature. Anaways it is better to download files from safe websites since no antivirus can be 100% secure.

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    THEY ARE REALLY VERY HELPFUL

    GO ON WITH U R WORK……….

  13. hey shrikant Your info. is very helpfull. i wanna use it on my blog. Do I have your Permission?

  14. Hi…….shrikant i am very pleased to know about these information plz tell me from where u got information now i am also interested in hacking so thanks for information & i hope u will answer me soon bye.

  16. dude best knowledge of protection from hackers was given by u
    THANK UUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @ Amit

      Very much true 🙂 Use virtual keyboard to protect yourself from keyloggers.

  27. There is another softwase called THREAT FIRE will helps us to know each & every activity of our pc when we set maximum security level, then we can Allow it or Block when detected

  30. realy awesome…..just a simple and logical idea can change their life. realy great job…

  36. I like this post very much.it help me to increase my knowledge in hacking… Thank you for sharing this with us….

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  40. Before reading this article i have no idea about Keyloggers .your blog is giving knowledge every one is not aware of this.
    thanks…………

  42. Its a very Nice post and give knowledge about computer hacking.
    And specific knowledge about keyloggers are very useful and the writer explain this blog is awesome.
    Thanks

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  59. this is thanks full to him who write this blog because sometimes we are filling this distributed.

  60. Great post! I look forward to reading more of your writing in the future.

  61. I have used Zemana anti-logger but it can only block keyloggers. I want to remove them completely from my pc.

  62. Thanks sir its really a valuable information i had faces may times

    this kind of problem.

    thanks

  64. Well, the best method for me is to run the task manager and check for any unusual process.

  70. Nice post. There are some very good tips in your post for protecting our computer from Keyloggers . I think all the tips are very necessary to keep the system safe and secure.

  72. If you want protect from keyloggers, you need alway check from task manager and msconfig, ensure that never have klg in your PC.

  76. The informations you provided are really very helpful to protect computer from keylogger.Anti keyloggers are very essential for Public computers,Financial institutions.Beside that, Anti keylogging scans should run on a regular basis in order to reduce the amount of time during which a keylogger may record keystrokes.
    Thanks.

  77. hi brother iam a degree student interested in hacking and related to it but when i tried to hack my friends pc with netbus 1.7 or 2.0 i cannot do that it is showing an error msg like cannot connect to the server or remote host ….
    can you please help me on this and what do you about net bus program…..?

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