Key logger threats and solutions

With increase in internet usages, malware and virus threats are also increasing day by day. But, if we ensure good computer maintenance and go for regular new updates of windows the chances of getting infected are minimal. Web surfing can bring a great threats and harm your computer. Specially, hacking computers for gaining access without authorization to other personal information has come out to be a normal phenomenon. The key logger is one of the threats to computer. So today I would discuss here about key logger in brief: what is key logger? Its causes and effects.

A key logger is simple program which record keystrokes made on keyboard. This program has legitimate uses like employing monitoring. But it is used for malicious use rather than, legitimate use. The most common example of using key logger is recording key strokes of banking information or bank account. It was developed a long time ago, but they were not regarded as threats until recently when some people decided to use it to steal personal information, and use that information for committing fraud. This computer program as marketed by its developer is legitimate. However it had reached the ethical boundary between justified monitoring and espionage. Today, key loggers may be used for valid as well as malicious or criminal intent.

Detecting of key loggers requires a through understanding: what it is?  What it does? And how it works? The best way to detect the key loggers is to download key logger detection software. It is very effective ad efficient.

You should follow some of these safety measures to protect your computer from key logger: 

1.      Do not click OK on pop-up windows without first reading them thoroughly.

2.      Never open spam e-mail.

3.      You should pay for premium software instead of opting for the free, advertising supported version.

4.      Never click on links in e-mail you receive from an unknown source.

5.      Type the URL on the secured Web browser.

6.      Do not open e-mail attachments from an unknown source.

7.      Use a firewall to help prevent any unauthorized computer activity.

8.      Run a weekly, full system anti-virus computer scan.

If you follow these steps you will never get such kid of malicious programs. But what if, you already got key logger on your computer. The sensitive feature of key logger is that: it’s difficult to be traced. So the best way of removing the key logger can be reformatting the entire hard disk with new version of windows. You can go for back up of all your important files and go for reformatting procedures. The alternate solution if you do not want to reformat your hard disk, you can download software’s which are capable of detecting and removing the key loggers out of your computer. In some cases even an antivirus or spyware remover can fail to get rid of a particular key logger. That is why there are Internet resources such as support.microsoft.com, which provide manual malware removal instructions. These instructions allow the user to manually delete all the files, directories, registry entries and other objects that belong to key loggers. This process may be little cumbersome and hard.