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September 10th, 2007, 13:59 GMT · By Alexandru Dumitru

Kill the Keylogger!

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Keyloggers are dangerous tools that hackers use to steal data. They can get your account and passwords and anything else they like. Keyloggers simply record everything that you type and
give the hacker access to a text file containing the stored key strokes. As you can see, they can be pretty dangerous. So why not stop them? It's not hard, all you have to do is install an anti-keylogger on your machine.

A new version of Anti-Kyelogger (7.4.2) has just been released and you can download it freely from the official website. Also, this product has one great advantage - it's heuristics (not signature) based and it's 100% efficient. Anti-viruses may have some trouble finding and taking down malware, because viruses are very different and do all sorts of nasty stuff, but keyloggers are all the same - they just record keystrokes, that's why it isn't very hard to build a program that recognizes their behavior and then neutralizes them.

So, what happens if your PC gets one of these keyloggers? Well, it does nothing to your machine, the damage that is done concerns the user's life. Suppose you login to your online bank account and give the official bank site some personal data. The keylogger will be there to record it all and hackers could crack your account and steal your money.

So get an AV, deploy a firewall, use an anti-spyware program and why not, download the free version of anti-keylogger. It runs in the background and will never prompt you with any annoying questions. You should really concern yourself with computer security, and I don't mean just against keyloggers, but in general, if your machine gets affected, either you or your computer will suffer the consequences, so why not avoid unpleasant situations? I've been yapping about this for quite some time now, but I'm going to say it again - get security software on your machine, now!

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