Keylogging Software Against Spywares

Internet Security is one of the relatively new additions to the dangers of using a computer for the internet. Similarly like viruses, certain spyware programmes can be do a lot more harm than one can imagine, not just to your computer but to you life as well beyond your machine.

Surprisingly, though the term spyware has become popular, most people have very little or no idea at all of what it does and what it can do. Spyware programs can either be just the hateful types or the criminal ones. Dirty spyware gathers information about your online browsing record when you connect online. This then sends the information gathered to their creators who then vend it to advertising firms. These kind of spywares are the main reason that you get pop ups appear on your screen in the form of advertisements. Spyware programs use your computer's resources without your approval & knowledge.

Other Spywares are operating for illegal reasons. These types of spyware programmes collect personal information about you like your passwords or credit card accounts. They do this by monitoring your keystrokes every time you enter your personal information when ordering something online or subscribing to a service. This type of spyware can cause more potential harm to your financial well being as well as causing you some annoyance. There have been many real life examples where people’s accounts have been raided without their knowledge using secure online passwords which have been stolen from their computer. This is one of the fastest growing cyber crimes around the world as more and more people use internet banking. It is much easier now to steal money from someone’s online account than walk into bank with a gun and demand money over the counter.

Therefore lot of people are using various internet monitoring tools (Key logging Software’s) with PC Monitoring features, these are specially designed internet filtering and monitoring software’s to combat spyware. Another way to detect spyware is to verify the running system processes in the computer and test which ones are rightful by checking this with recognized online sources. At spysure.com you can now purchase software which will show you all the programmes running on your computer. If there is a programme you don’t recognise you can then take action to have that programme removed.

Nawaz is an author of this article. Read more articles at http://www.spysure.com/internet-monitoring-software/articles.php

Keylogging Software Developers

Internet monitoring software has been one of the fastest growing areas of computer technology in the last decade. It’s not hard to see why. There are now a billion internet users around the world with 24 hour a day access to the World Wide Web. There’s a mind-boggling amount of information and entertainment available – much of it good some of it very harmful. PC monitoring tools have been developed so that every computer owner – whether the computer is in the home, office or school – can keep track on exactly how it is being used by everyone with access to it. Keylogging software has been developed which allows you to see every keystroke made on a computer. The perfect keylogger will allow you to see the passwords the user puts in, every email message they send, every web page accessed and the conversations they have in internet chat rooms.

If you have a shared family computer, or your child has their own PC, then family keylogging software allows you to see what they are up to. Are they doing their homework or surfing inappropriate adult sites? Internet monitoring tools can help ensure online child safety. If you employ PC monitoring in the workplace a spy keylogger can ensure that your workers are doing just that – working rather that spending hours on internet, shopping, gambling or downloading pornography. Network monitoring software uses sophisticated encryption and security tools to kept track of activity on up to 100 computers. This spy keylogger software can be operated so that no user can detect it. You will be able to see all the keystrokes they make – but only you will know that the PC monitoring software is there, operating invisibly in the background. Surveillance software can also show you which employer is downloading large files from the internet – like music and video clips – what programs they are using and how much time they spend on the internet. Here at Spysure we have developed cutting edge keylogging and internet monitoring software products to fit all your needs – from an easy-to-use internet monitoring software and family keylogger package for the home to the most sophisticated Network monitoring software for the office. Spysure’s Home Version; Office Version and Network Version will give you the ultimate in computer control and peace of mind.

Nawaz is an author of this article. Read more articles at http://www.spysure.com/internet-monitoring-software/articles.php

The Advancement of the Keylogger

<p>A keylogger is a program that runs in your computer’s background secretly recording
all your keystrokes. Once your keystrokes are logged, they are hidden away for later
retrieval by the attacker. The attacker then carefully reviews the information in
hopes of finding passwords or other information that would prove useful to them.
For example, a keylogger can easily obtain confidential emails and reveal them to
any interested outside party willing to pay for the information.</p>
<p>Keyloggers can be either software or hardware based. Software-based keyloggers
are easy to distribute and infect, but at the same time are more easily detectable.
Hardware-based keyloggers are more complex and harder to detect. For all that you
know, your keyboard could have a keylogger chip attached and anything being typed
is recorded into a flash memory sitting inside your keyboard. Keyloggers have become
one of the most powerful applications used for gathering information in a world
where encrypted traffic is becoming more and more common.</p>
<p>As keyloggers become more advanced, the ability to detect them becomes more difficult.
They can violate a user’s privacy for months, or even years, without being noticed.
During that time frame, a keylogger can collect a lot of information about the user
it is monitoring. A keylogger can potential obtain not only passwords and log-in
names, but credit card numbers, bank account details, contacts, interests, web browsing
habits, and much more. All this collected information can be used to steal user’s
personal documents, money, or even their identity.</p>
<p>A keylogger might be as simple as an .exe and a .dll that is placed in a computer
and activated upon boot up via an entry in the registry. Or, the more sophisticated
keyloggers, such as the Perfect Keylogger or ProBot Activity Monitor have developed
a full line of nasty abilities including:</p>
<p>• Undetectable in the process list and invisible in operation</p>
<p>• A kernel keylogger driver that captures keystrokes even when the user is logged
off</p>
<p>• A remote deployment wizard</p>
<p>• The ability to create text snapshots of active applications</p>
<p>• The ability to capture http post data (including log-ins/passwords)</p>
<p>• The ability to timestamp record workstation usage</p>
<p>• HTML and text log file export</p>
<p>• Automatic e-mail log file delivery</p>
<p>All keyloggers are not used for illegal purposes. A variety of other uses have
surfaced. Keyloggers have been used to monitor web sites visited as a means of parental
control over children. They have been actively used to prevent child pornography
and avoid children coming in contact with dangerous elements on the web. Additionally,
in December, 2001, a federal court ruled that the FBI did not need a special wiretap
order to place a keystroke logging device on a suspect’s computer. The judge allowed
the FBI to keep details of its key logging device secret (citing national security
concerns). The defendant in the case, Nicodemo Scarfo Jr., indicted for gambling
and loan-sharking, used encryption to protect a file on his computer. The FBI used
the keystroke logging device to capture Scarfo’s password and gain access to the
needed file.</p>
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Why Parents Need Keylogger Software

The emergence of the internet, and associated technologies like email and instant messaging, present problems for today’s parents that were unimaginable just twenty years ago. Children use computers for homework, surf the web at their leisure and socialize through instant messaging – all activities that are often outside direct parental control and by themselves leave little or no record of their occurrence.

Some parents attempt to solve the problem by banning computer use entirely or allowing it only when a parent directly supervises, but most find this is not a realistic solution and places their child at an academic and social disadvantage compared to other children. On the other hand, unfettered access to a computer with access to the internet poses real dangers to children. Consider the following:

- Computer-sex offenders almost always meet potential victims in instant message chat rooms. Chat rooms grant these predators anonymity and a belief their instant messages are not monitored or recorded.

- The average age of first exposure to pornography is over the internet is 11 years old.

- The FBI recommends you monitor your child's access to all types of live electronic communications, including instant message and email.

- One out of five children were aggressively pushed to have face-to-face meetings with strangers in the last year, often via instant messaging.

- Because young people often find instant messaging easier than talking face to face, they often say things they wouldn't say in person. Cyber-bullying has become a new form of harassment.

- While online predators usually gradually seduce their targets through attention, affection, kindness, and even gifts, some predators work faster than others, engaging in sexually explicit conversations immediately.

Many parents are finding an acceptable middle-ground between no supervision at all and direct personal control of their children’s computer use is to use inexpensive and readily available keylogger software. Keylogger software monitors a child’s actions on the computer and stores this information for later review by a parent. Quality varies, but keylogger software is usually easy to install and setup, requires no advanced knowledge by the user, and often can be purchased for less than $30 (one vendor of keylogging software is PCSentinel Software). Outside of physically being present and watching while a child uses the computer, keylogger software is the only way for a parent to know exactly how their child is using their computer.

Unfortunately, some parents are reluctant to use keylogger software because they feel they are they are spying on their children, or that their children are good kids and don’t require this level of supervision. However, the fact remains that even “good” or “smart” children are still just children and often make, or can be induced to make, very bad choices with awful consequences. Even savvy children who feel they are protecting their private information from strangers in chat rooms often don’t realize how much personal information they may reveal over many conversations – and predators are known to keep detailed files on their victims, often piecing together small bits of information gathered over many conversations to construct an outline of a child’s daily routine and whereabouts.

Ultimately, it is hard to argue that keylogging software is not a necessary tool for every parent with children who have access to the internet. Simply put, it is the parent’s responsibility to know with certainty what is going on in their children’s lives – and given the dangers of unmonitored internet access the only way parents really know how their children are using their computer is through keylogging software.

Michael Ryan owns and operates PCSentinel Software, developer of easy-to-use keylogger software such as PCSentinel’s Busted: Keylogger and Instant Message Monitor and PCSentinel’s Red-Handed: Record Instant Messages!