Comments for Will using an on screen keyboard stop keyboard loggers and hackers?

Comment from Tom Hoffman on 2009-05-27

2009-05-27T15:15:09Z

There is an interesting comparison of approaches at http://kyps.net/home/comparison what do you think?

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Comment from greater good on 2009-01-17

2009-01-17T15:29:06Z

i guess it is the responsibility of websites to establish a security layer. they should ask for partial passwords and not full password. For example, a user has 8 character password. The website should display lesser than 8 boxes and ask the user to, say, enter 1st, 4th, 6th and 7th character of password. every time user tries a login, these places should be randomized so that every time, the website ask for different characters of password of the same user.
This can reduce password thefts to a significant extent, but not 100%.

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Comment from fastfreddie1959 on 2009-01-15

2009-01-16T04:05:07Z

Once again i can offer what i use to defeat
keylogging.
A program called KeyScrambler.
It's a great program.
Works in firefox and IE browsers.

And once again I'll express my extreme skepticism at any software that you have to install as being able to defeat a sufficiently sophisticated keylogger. IMO: it can't be done, and these utilities are a waste of time.

- Leo
16-Jan-2009

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Comment from amitpoddar on 2009-01-15

2009-01-15T18:47:01Z

There is a much better option than using the onscreen keyboard. To defeat keyloggers, i used to carry my login ids and passwords in my usb pen drive and copy and PASTE them into place, NOT TYPE them. This will defeat hardware key loggers. Passwords are entered as ****** in most cases which will defeat image capturing keyloggers.

Unless, of course, the keylogger is also watching the clipboard for anything you might copy/paste. VERY easy for a keylogger to do.

- Leo
16-Jan-2009

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