Keystroke logging, often committed to as keylogging or keyboard capturing, is the action of recording (logging) the keys hit on a keyboard, typically covertly, so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored. Data can then be retrieved by the person operating the logging program. A keylogger can be either software or hardware.
While the programs themselves are legal, with many of them being designed to allow employers to oversee the use of their computers, keyloggers are most often used for the purpose of stealing passwords and other confidential information.
Keylogging can also be used to study personal computer interaction. Numerous keylogging methods exist: they range from hardware and software-based approaches to acoustic analysis.
Hardware Keyloggers
Some keyloggers can be executed entirely as hardware devices. A typical desktop computer has a keyboard that connects to the back of the computer using a USB cable. If someone were to sneak in, unplug the keyboard’s USB cable, then attach a specialized USB device between the computer’s USB port and the keyboard’s USB connector, the device could function as a keylogger. Sitting in the middle, it could intercept keyboard signals from the keyboard, store them on the device, and then pass the keystrokes to the computer so everything would appear to be working normally. Security software on the computer wouldn’t be able to detect this keylogger, as it runs entirely in hardware. If the computer were hidden under a desk, no one would notice the device.
The person could then come back a few days later to grab the device and sneak off with it, leaving no trace of keylogging software or suspicious network activity.
If you’re worried about hardware keyloggers, just check the back of your computer and ensure there’s no suspicious device between your keyboard cable and the computer itself — of course, there probably won’t be. (And if there is, it’s probably some sort of legitimate adapter like the one below.)
Anti keyloggers
An anti keylogger is a piece of software specifically designed to detect keyloggers on a computer, typically comparing all files in the computer against a database of keyloggers looking for similarities which might signal the presence of a hidden keylogger. As anti keyloggers have been designed specifically to detect keyloggers, they have the potential to be more effective than conventional anti virus software; some anti virus software does not consider a keylogger to be a virus, as under some circumstances a keylogger can be considered a legitimate piece of software.
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`10. Free Keylogger
It is able to log keystrokes, clipboard data and site addresses externally the screen capture which is fine for people who don’t want to capture screenshots. There are a couple of invisibility settings such as the hidden mode hotkey (default Ctrl+Shift+Alt+U), removing shortcuts from start menu and uninstall list.
9. REFOG Free Keylogger
REFOG is a very popular company that offers a range of keyloggers catering for home, business and corporate use but unfortunately the free version is very essential as most of the important features have been disabled. The free version of REFOG keylogger can only monitor keystrokes, visited websites, clipboard, ran programs and computer activities.
8. DanuSoft Free Keylogger
DanuSoft is a simple and easy to use easy tool to capture keystrokes. The only means to hide and unhide the program is by typing a chosen keyword, for instance the default hide keylogger keyword is “HIDEKEY” while to show is “SHOWKEY”. You can configure DanuSoft to automatically run as secrecy during system startup from the Startup settings tab
7. Real Free Keylogger
After installing Real Free Keylogger to log the keystrokes, running it the first time will prompt you to set a password to protect the program so that only you can access the settings and view the logs. You can set a hotkey (default Ctrl+Alt+X) to launch the program when it is running in stealth mode. It comes with a scheduler to automatically start logging and the log files can be exported as a HTML file.
6. Revealer Keylogger Free
Revealer Keylogger Free is the second most downloaded monitoring tool in CNET Download.com. After testing, we found that it is very responsive and light on system usage. It can record keystroke, has multiple language support, startup settings, ability to run with elevated privileges, hotkey support (default Ctrl+Alt+F9) and automatic log cleanup. Screenshot capture, automated delivery options and additional stealth features are disabled.
5. KidLogger
KidLogger is an absolutely free and open source user activity monitoring tool. Other than just logging keystrokes and clipboard, it can also record USB drives/files/folders usage, sound from microphone and taking screenshots including Skype videos. You’re able to set keywords as an alert during capture. The log files can either viewed locally or from your KidLogger’s online account. KidLogger can be installed on Windows, Mac OS X, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry and iOS.
4. BlackBox Express
BlackBox Express is a free security monitoring software that can be used as a keylogger. The way BlackBox works is slightly different compared to the rest on this list because it can monitor 1 local PC and up to 200 remote computers on the network. It can log keystrokes, web searches, ran programs, visited websites, email client programs, webmails, instant messaging chat programs and capture screenshots. Other than that, you can exclude the user that you don’t want to monitor on the computer. Alert notification and the ability to generate report that can be printed, saved as a HTML or emailed.
3. Spyrix Free Keylogger
Spyrix Free Keylogger is the free version of the paid Spyrix Personal Monitor. It is able to capture keystrokes, clipboard and take screenshots but advanced features such as social network & IM capture, visited webpages, log delivery and alerts are not available. When Spyrix is hidden, it can be launched with either a hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+A) or run command (runkey) and can be protected with a password.
2. G³ iSam
iSam is the free keylogger that’s packed with features such as the ability to capture keystrokes and take screenshots, set a hotkey (default T+G+Enter) to run the program, password protection (default 1234), automatic emailing log files, keywords marking, displaying banner to alert the user, scheduler, blocking URLs and exclusion filtering system.
1. Actual Keylogger
Actual Keylogger used to be totally free but the current version has turned into a shareware with the program renamed to Actual Spy. Although the last freeware version 2.4 was released back in 2006, it worked perfectly when we tested it on our Windows 7 32-bit operating system. It can only capture keystrokes and allows you to access the program in two methods which means hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F7) and run command (akstart).
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