Key-loggers!

When someone types his password, we are so tempted to look at it... but still we turn our heads towards the wall or look at the watch though we could always see the time in front of us in the computer, just to show that we are saints to control all temptations... But therez always a second category of people who keep their eyes just above the keyboard and challenge us to type fast enough for them not to re-construct the password... There is a better way of doing this password sniffing and it is thro' the use of key-loggers...

If you guys call me porups or padips, I would definitely recommend you to have a look at my brother... He's the one who highlighted me the importance of knowing about key-loggers in corporate world... He never "types" passwords unless someone is around... Key-loggers are so common in organizations that people are forced to use "Virtual Keyboard Assistant" or "on-screen keyboard" in windows... Recently, the internet banking started giving a built-in on-screen keyboard interface for entering passwords... Even I saw paypal havin one such virtual keyboard when I changed my password...

The picture shows an hardware key-logger. Even I've one such thing but its jus a DIN to mini-DIN converter... These days, hardware key-loggers come even in USB flavors... Anyway, a software key-logger is way too easy and of course, free... Even I've written one but my avast starts its loud siren whenever I take my mouse pointer near the icon... Though so many key-loggers are available in the net, very few of them goes undetected by the anti-virus...

A key-logger daemon is easy to create in Visual Basic by jus writing 10 lines of code under the keypress(keyup or keydown) event inside an infinite looping while.. It can save everything you type at a particular location... A software key-logger by itself is useless unless its connected with the automatic mailing system which when scheduled, can mail us the saved log file from the system in which the key-logger is running... Now, start searching ur system for my key-logger.. :P