“You won’t find recent independent reviews of anti-keylogger programs [ . . . ]. Raymond did publish a comparison two years ago but things have changed considerable since then.”
by Martin Brinkmann, at www.ghacks.net, on August 31, 2015
Martin Brinkmann’s statement above is from an article about a new version of the SpyShelter Anti-Keylogger. In that article he referred to an older review by Raymond.The opening paragraphs, copied below, still seem a good introduction to the subject.
“Security experts consider keylogging as the most dangerous threat because it allows cyber criminals to capture everything you type on your keyboard. This includes passwords so that they can gain access to your online accounts such as your email, banking, forums, websites and etc to steal valuable information. If keystroke logging is not damaging enough, your webcam, screen, clipboard and microphone can also be secretly captured and logged without your knowledge.
There are a couple of different methods to protect yourself against keyloggers. First you can use an on-screen virtual keyboard where your mouse will be used to select the keys when entering your password instead of typing it from the physical keyboard that is logged. A good antivirus can also recognize some of the known and unknown keyloggers through virus definition or heuristic analysis. Finally, a dedicated anti keylogging tool that constantly monitors the behavior of running applications and notifies you if it detects any potential keylogging activity.
In this article we’ll be putting 3 anti keylogging programs named Zemana AntiLogger, SpyShelter Premium and DataGuard AntiKeylogger to the test with real keylogging tools that are popular and widely being used to determine the effectiveness of each program. ”
Read More at www.raymond.cc.
For other reviews of keyloggers and some other security software, go to snapfiles.com. The linked list is sorted by popularity.