rahulbhagchandani

15/01/2010

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A lot many people aren’t even aware about Keyloggers that can serve potential threats for anyone while using public systems. Here’s how to be sure about your ‘password’ security…
Last day, a very close friend called me for a query. Being a tech savvy amongst my family-friends, I often receive these sorts of calls. He said his Facebook was down and saying that it went under maintenance. Well, I was quite certain about this and asked him to wait and confirmed that his Facebook will be up big time. But instead of waiting, he alleged me of stealing his password. I felt like Lol. This was very obvious as one fine day, when he paid a visit to my place, he browsed the web through my PC unintentionally I had a Keylogger installed that really stole (or in a clear sense – logged) his password. I didn’t used that for any negative means, instead, I did informed him the same that moment and he did changed his password. But, the human mind is as always, full of doubts and hence he did suspect me this time round, though in a very jolly manner – coz he certainly knew I wasn’t the culprit! Well, forget me and my friend, but, if this happened to him on a public PC, one, no one would have had bothered to tell him, and, second, his password could have been used for unfair means. And hence, Trouble! Keylogger is software installed which can be installed on any system and can be used for both positive as well as negative pu...
 
 

 

 
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