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Posted By Mimenta on January 31, 2010

Key \loggers – Do they trap passwords?

This could be a short session – in a word – YES!

I always assumed that you could thwart this by using a secured login screen (eg SSL) like you have with online banking but even that is not secure friom a keylogger on your computer. I thought that making a mistake and backspacing to correct it would foil a key logger but as we saw last session, the better key loggers can remove this from their logs too. Today’s keyloggers even have the ability to hilight passwords within the log!

While all of the keyloggers we tested are adept at capturing passwords, they can be difficult to see amidst all the other data collected. Perfect Keylogger has gone one better by identifying and labeling the passwords it records. Without such labels, it’s difficult to know whether a random word or phrase typed in a given window is actually a password. It’s also the only keylogger we tested that can be remotely installed (if you’re willing to spring for the U.S. $83 Silent Logger Plus Remote-Install Edition, which was beyond our budget). Perfect Keylogger was approximately half the price at $44.95.

Perfect Keylogger lives up to its name by offering a range of useful features that we didn’t find in the other keyloggers we tested. For example . . .

• Perfect Keylogger is the only program we tested that automatically zips and password-protects logs that it sends to you via e-mail.

• You can also choose to encrypt the log so that it’s viewable only via the program’s built-in log viewer.

• It was the only one out of all rthe ones we tested, that enabled you to select certain user accounts to monitor.

• The step by step installation wizard made sense, even to a newbie. It was in simple plain English with images to give you visual confirmation of what you were selecting.

Perfect Keylogger’s basic version lacks most of the paid edition’s features but at $19.95 it does an excellent job. The company sells an in-between version at $34.95 that has all the features without the remote installation, The remote version allows you to install, update and remove the keylogger from another computer. On the company’s site (www.blazingtools.com) lists differences among the three releases.

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