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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.

The most excellent advantage of the keylogger is that it is perfectly used as a back up program for security purposes, so that you won’t be able to forget your passwords, user names and other important information’s.

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 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 Use the system configuration utility to know which tasks are loaded at start-up.

o Run your anti-virus on your computer, it can detect any keylogger that are applied on your system.

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.

Remember the name of the key logger’s process and reboot your computer. This is the perfect way of checking if the keylogger has been completely removed from your system.

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