Account Administration encouraged not to restore hacked characters

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1-08-2010 @ 12:03PM

Drakkenfyre said...

"Or if it's because of a keylogger and not phishing, you could save your pass to a word file and copy paste it so the keylogger just registers a ctrl v."

Squirrl, don't take this the wrong way, or personally, but if you think that will prevent you from being keylogged, you are an IDIOT.

I am sorry, I have just seen so many people claim that that method will keep you from being keylogged, and it does no good.

If you copy and paste a password, A KEYLOGGER CAN GET IT.
If you use an on-screen keyboard, A KEYLOGGER CAN GET IT.

Keyloggers don't just log keys. They are named keyloggers because that's what they originally did. Today's keyloggers watch your clipboard, some even take screenshots, monitor the position of your mouse, and intercepts the data as it leaves your computer, before it gets to the servers.

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