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How Does A Keylogger Work - Disadvantage Or Advantage

Written by Trevor Johnson Wednesday, 09 December 2009 10:05

Do you have any idea how does a keylogger work? Keylogger is a kind of software that is specially design to track everything that is happening on the computer's keyboard. While generally made for security reasons and for back up purposes, but was known for an improper usage.

Do you have any idea how does a keylogger work? Keylogger is a kind of software that is specially design to track everything that is happening on the computer's keyboard. While generally made for security reasons and for back up purposes, but was known for an improper usage.

Some company's uses this kind of application to monitor the activities of their employee's and the uses of the Internet in their computers. But when people discover and use it in a violent way this software can be dangerous. Often hackers take advantage of the keylogger because they can easily steal other person's personal information.

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.

Ways on how to detect a keylogger:

o Open the task window by pressing ctrl+alt+Del on windows. Check some unknown tasks that are running.

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

o Running the anti-virus can also help you to detect and select where the keylogger is located.

After locating this dangerous keylogger, the best thing to do is to remove it from your system. The best way of removing it is by clicking the process and after that you need to click also the "End Process" button. It will surely terminate the process you have picked out. Advanced keylogger are very difficult to detect even anti-virus could not detect it.

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.