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Anti Keylogger Shield Keeps Your Passwords Safe
Posted by Adam Pash at 4:00 AM on April 12, 2008
Windows only: Freeware application Anti Keylogger Shield blocks keyloggers from tracking the passwords and other personal information you type on your computer. Unlike other similar tools, Anti Keylogger Shield does not detect existing keylogger software; it just disables the mechanisms they use to record your typing. While I can't vouch for this app across the board, I did install one keylogger and it worked as advertised—I typed, but the log remained empty. This would be a real winner if it were portable and could run from thumb drives. (For portable protection, check out previously mentioned SafeKeys.) Thanks Jason!
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modeling22
Posted 4:33 AM 12/4/08
Thanks Adam.
modeling22
BugMeNot
Posted 5:34 AM 12/4/08
Yeah, I would like to know how this would work, although it seems that it would try to get as low into the operating system as possible (that is what the install is about, tying it in to the lowest functionality) so that most every keyboard traffic goes striaght to it, then it passes it directly to the application. I may be wrong, it is just speculation.
BugMeNot
Keonne
Posted 5:33 AM 12/4/08
Well it dosen't seem to work against the keylogger I have installed... at all.
I have screenshots if you want proof.
Keonne
ACF
Posted 5:21 AM 12/4/08
Can anyone comment as to how this program works? My understanding was that the keys had to be passed to the application sooner or later and a keylogger could jump in the middle. Can anyone correct this or share what this program does to circumvent this?
ACF
Tara-PassPack
Posted 5:59 AM 12/4/08
Tara-PassPack
SMSDHubbard
Posted 6:50 AM 12/4/08
Then again, there are also hardware keyloggers that this certainly won't stop.
SMSDHubbard
kurt wismer
Posted 6:37 AM 12/4/08
a bit of critical thinking suggests that keyloggers can theoretically intercept keyboard input in much the same way that certain legitimate apps (hotkey software or even launchy) intercept keyboard input... if this blocks all ways that keyloggers could work it would also break a significant portion of legitimate software...
kurt wismer
Qwertinsky
Posted 7:06 AM 12/4/08
Nice, but would be better if it could be ran as a hidden service just like a key logger.
Qwertinsky
YachiraG
Posted 10:32 AM 12/4/08
I'd be very careful about installing this app. I've read nothing but cheap advertising about it on the Web. Googling it does not inspire confidence.
YachiraG
kurt wismer
Posted 12:49 PM 12/4/08
@Qwertinsky: if it runs as a hidden service, as you suggest, then the user won't have any indication when a keylogger kills the process in order to install it's keyboard hooks...
not that a missing system tray icon is much of an indication anyways, though...
kurt wismer
Lawk Salih
Posted 1:12 AM 13/4/08
Does anybody know of a good keylogger tool/software?
Lawk Salih
Lawk Salih
Posted 1:11 AM 13/4/08
@Keonne: What's the name of the keylogger you're using. Is it a freeware?
Thanks, Lawk.
Lawk Salih
Keonne
Posted 5:21 AM 15/4/08
Keonne
ahoier
Posted 7:12 AM 17/4/08
Sounds kinda weird.
For me, the most obvious time to use an anti-keylogger, would be, if I'm at an internet cafe, or "public" computer...library, bus station, friend's house, etc.
I realise yes, installing it as a service (or hell, why not as a "driver" - similar to that of ProtoWall and/or PeerGuardian?)
Even then, this is no defense against a hardware keylogger (dongle attached to the keyboard itself, or the USB or PS/2 port(s) on the public terminal).
Good try, but I don't know how useful it is yet.
Who needs an "antikeylogger" on a machine in their home which they control and have sole access to? :P That seems to be the only place this would work...
ahoier