Anti-Keylogger Trick
Most Filipinos access the Internet through Internet cafes of wildly varying quality — from posh luxury gaming centers to dingy little holes-in-the-wall (mostly the latter). The wide low end of that spectrum is a fertile password-hunting ground for keyloggers. Right now, Filipino script kiddies steal passwords to play infantile pranks on newbies’ social network and [...]|
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Will not work if the person who installed the keylogger is using a more sophisticated keylogger application.
I saw a couple of freeware and shareware keylogger apps that can track everything.
The simplest of these apps, I was able to figure out the password typed in 30 mins after reading the log file. One good way is to simply duplicate the process as is written in the log file.
Now it is up to the person if s/he will be patient enough to decode the numerous random and not random clicks, tabs, typing, etc.
Simply, keyloggers will log where and when you clicked and/or tabbed where and when, even if you clicked on another browser window, or tabbed to another browser-tab. If you scroll, typed in notepad, typed in command line, run, etc.
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Oh, basically, there is really no other way to be secured in a public terminal unless you can do a restore of the system from it’s very first state when it was first booted after a fresh reformat and installation.
That’s why I only trust a very few iCafes in the Metro Manila, and I don’t log in sensitive stuff at terminals that I can easily install and edit the startup system.
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Actually, this is a good idea. Another method is to copy and paste some letters of the password from text on the screen, or from different applications.
No need to disclose your password to an Internet cafe: http://kyps.net