What is a keylogger? According to experts, keystroke loggers
pose more risk to PC users than any other tool used for
committing cybercrime. Also known as keyloggers, they are small
programs or hardware devices that monitor each keystroke you
enter on a specific computer's keyboard, including typos,
backspacing and retyping. Recording your every move on the Web
Although keyloggers are promoted for benign purposes like
allowing parents to monitor their children's whereabouts on the
Internet, they can be used to spy on anyone. They are a form of
spyware used by cybercriminals to covertly watch and record
everything you type on your PC in order to harvest your log-in
names, passwords, and other sensitive information, and send it
on to the hackers. This may include any passwords you have asked
your computer to remember for you to speed up logging in, as
these are held as cookies on your machine. Unfortunately for
consumers, keyloggers are becoming very sophisticated. Once on a
PC, they can track websites visited b