detect if you have a keylogger. You can note when your keyboard keeps redirecting you to a
certain site, slower performance than usual or screen error messages .
How to Protect Against a Keylogger
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Password manager – Most of these password managers use the feature of autofill that helps
you remember the password. But did you know this is dangerous? Yes, hackers can save the
password. Although some keyloggers save passwords when typed on keyboards, it is good to
check whether if your computer/system has this suspicious keylogger. As a company, a
keylogger can be used to check unusual activities.
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Be cautions – This happens almost to everyone where you receive links from unknown
people. Some of these links are infected and are sent to prompt you to click them. The click
of those links is the beginning of the hacking. You’ll find once you click on these links your
computer starts misbehaving or redirecting to specific sites.
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Keyboard layout – Perhaps, try to change the design of your computer. Keylogger is
available in QWERTY layout, try changing it to DVORAK. This is because it becomes hard
to convert the captures in that layout.
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Security tools – To put extra security measures in your computer, you need to put
additional security tools. Some tool like Ghost press is an anti-keylogger that stops other
programs from running behind the system without knowing.
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Change passwords – In case you suspect someone is logging to your mails then try to put
the hard password but easy to remember. A hacker may steal your password and not
necessarily use it immediately. Keep changing your password just in case in future he tries to
hack the system unexpectedly.
Cookie theft – Cookie data is available when in transit. It is always sent in the form of
headers in sites this makes them vulnerable to attackers. In public places, this becomes riskier
since they access easily.
