How to record keystrokes on your keyboard

[Yudhajit]

Hi Friends,

Is is possible to record keystrokes on your keyboard? Can anybody tell me how i can record all keystrokes?

Thanks in Advance.

[Katty]

Keystroke logging (often called keylogging) is a method of capturing and recording user keystrokes. The technique and name came from before the era of the graphical user interface; loggers nowadays would expect to capture mouse operations as well. Keylogging can be useful to determine sources of errors in computer systems, to study how users interact and access with systems, and is sometimes used to measure employee productivity on certain clerical tasks.

Keyloggers are widely available on the Internet.

[Praetor]

Following are the types of keystroke loggers:

1. Local Machine software Keyloggers:
These are the software programs that are designed to work on the target computer’s operating system. They are catagorised as under:

• Hypervisor-based: The keylogger resides in a malware hypervisor running underneath the operating system, which remains untouched, except that it effectively becomes a virtual machine. See Blue Pill for a conceptual example.
• Kernel based: This method is difficult both to write and to combat. Such keyloggers reside at the kernel level and are thus difficult to detect, especially for user-mode applications. They are frequently implemented as rootkits that subvert the operating system kernel and gain unauthorized access to the hardware which makes them very powerful. A keylogger using this method can act as a keyboard driver for example, and thus gain access to any information typed on the keyboard as it goes to the operating system.
• Hook based: Such keyloggers hook the keyboard with functions provided by the operating system. The operating system warns them any time a key is pressed and it records it.
• Passive Methods: Here the coder uses operating system APIs like GetAsyncKeyState(), GetForegroundWindow(), etc. to poll the state of the keyboard or to subscribe to keyboard events. These are the easiest to write, but where constant polling of each key is required, they can cause a noticeable increase in CPU usage and can miss the occasional key. A more recent example simply polls the BIOS for preboot authentication PINs that have not been cleared from memory.
• Form Grabber based logs web form submissions by recording the web browsing .onsubmit event functions. This records form data before it is passed over the internet and bypasses https encryption.

2. Remote Access software Keyloggers:
These are local software keyloggers programmed with an added feature to transmit recorded data out of the target computer and make the data available to the monitor at a remote location. there are following different methods for remote communication:

• Data is uploaded to a website or an ftp account.
• Data is periodically emailed to a pre-defined email address.
• Data is wirelessly transmitted by means of an attached hardware system.
• It allows the monitor to log into the local machine via the internet or ethernet and access the logs stored on the target machine.

3. Hardware Keyloggers:
These keyloggers are used for keystroke logging by means of a hardware circuit that is attached somewhere in between the computer keyboard and the computer. It logs all keyboard activity to its internal memory, which can subsequently be accessed, for example, by typing in a secret key. A hardware keylogger has an advantage over a software solution; because it is not dependent on the computer's operating system, it will not interfere with any program running on the target machine and hence cannot be detected by any software, however its physical presence may be detected.

4. Wireless Hardware Keyloggers (Remote Access Hardware Keyloggers):
These keyloggers work in much the same way as regular hardware keyloggers, except they have the ability to be controlled and monitored remotely by means of a wireless communication standard.

5. Wireless Keylogger sniffers:
These collect packets of data being transferred from a wireless keyboard and its receiver and then attempts to crack the encryption key being used to secure wireless communications between the two devices.

6. Acoustic Keyloggers:
These work by analyzing a recording of the sound created by someone typing on a computer. Each character on the keyboard makes a subtly different acoustic signature when stroked. Using statistical methods, it is then possible to identify which keystroke signature relates to which keyboard character. This is done by analyzing the repetition frequency of similar acoustic keystroke signatures, the timings between different keyboard strokes and other context information such as the probable language in which the user is writing. A fairly long recording (1000 or more keystrokes) is required so that the statistics are meaningful.

7. Electromagnetic Radiation
These loggers work by passively capturing electromagnetic emissions of a keyboard, without being physically wired to it.

[Modifier]

hi there.......
i know few software's which can record your keystrokes:

Smack 1.06:

Smack can record keystrokes, mouse clicks and movements and playback under three types of speed (High-Normal-Low). with Normal speed keystrokes and mouse clicks are played back as they recorded exactly. with high speed keystrokes, mouse movements and clicks are played back with no delaying time between events. with low speed keystrokes, mouse movements and clicks are played back with delaying time between your event but more than the normal.

QuickButtons 1.61:

QuickButtons allows you to create an AppBar with buttons that simulate keystrokes. An AppBar is like the Windows Task Bar - a bar that sits at the bottom or top of your screen. A QuickButtons Button Bar will sit happily above the Windows Task bar and will stay visible at all times so that you can work with your favourite applications and click on QuickButtons buttons whenever you need to.

Ardamax Keylogger 3.0:

KeyScrambler Personal is a free plugin for your web browser that protects your important information from keyloggers. It defeats keyloggers by encrypting your keystrokes at the keyboard driver level, deep within the operating system. When the encrypted keystrokes reach your browser, KeyScrambler then decrypts them so you see exactly the keys you've typed. Keyloggers can only record the encrypted keys, which are completely indecipherable.

[MindSpace]

hi there..
you can download many keystroke recording software from the below given site:

http://www.softsia.com/record-keystr...ownload-1.html

[brom]

On Mac i use KeyBag keylogger...

[ventas]

It's easy, visit and download Award Keylogger to help you.

[noltyx]

Hi
I agree with brom
on a Mac ProteMac Keybag good program

[Dylan18]

Hi,you can also try to use ActyMac DutyWatch. it’s prog record all website and keystroke made by somebody .Try.It’s must be helpful to your.)

[Valentina_Sk]

I prefer to use ProteMac KeyBag.

[miniklop]

I prefer to use ProteMac KeyBag.

+1 to ProteMac KeyBa, use this prog few months.