Some time or the other, one has to go to
cyber cafe or public computers to access internet or e-mail.
These public computer being used by
large number of people are most prone to password hacking.
Cafe owners can not
put an eye on every one to stop them from installing hidden hacking softwares.
One of such hacking softwares is a keylogger.
What Keylogger do is it will record
every key pressed in some notepad file and store it at a location only visible
to person installed it.
For example, if person goes to
hotmail.com to check e-mails and types
ID as abcd@hotmail.com and password as
p@s5word. The keylogger software records every key pressed in its log file as
Microsoft Internet Explorer :
www.hotmail.comabcd@hotmail.comp@s5word
Don't panic, there is solution to it
too.
If you have noticed in statement recorded by keylogger that it does not
know what is website address, what and how long is user id and when does
password starts. It records as and when you type.
We are going to use this feature of it
to fool it.
So, between successive keys of the
password if you enter/press random keys anywhere on the screen or on new notepad
file, the keylogger software won't ever come to know where you typed in what.
The keys keylogger now records will contain the password, with random keys in
between.
For Example -
1. Go to hotmail.com.
2. Type in your user ID.
3. Type in the few characters of the
password.
4. Open new tab in Internet Explorer.
5. Again go to password field and type
in the few more characters of the password.
6. Again go to the addressbar and type
in a few more random character.
Keep on repeatin the process till you
type in the full password in the password field.
Now Kelogger will something like this-
www.hotmail.comabcd@hotmail.compda@dasdasd5asdwaodajljkljk
I'd appreciate your comments/feedback!
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