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John

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Since: May 22, 2006
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:35 pm
Post subject: Keylogger resistance
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Hello,
Keyloggers has become the most popular form of virus, therefore some
websites deviced certain mechanism to resist this kind of attack. For
those sites without any remedy for it, as a user while logging in, can
I use this method to resist keylogger type attacks?
My method is to type password and username in an interlaced mode, and
even add some backspaces among them, such that the keylogger will
record incorrect username and password. Will such a DIY method help to
resist keylogger type attacks?


Thanks for your comments.

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Pete

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:55 am
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John

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:15 pm
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Phil,
| After all, a 'keylogger' captures the key sequence you
| type in, not what the results look like on the screen.

The sequence may be misleading because I typed user/pass in an
interlaced mode.
eg. user: ABCD, pass:1234 but I typed them as A1B2C3D4, or even
A13[Backspace]B25[Backspace]..... and so on. Won't this way confuse
simple keyloggers?
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Phil Weldon

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 10:55 pm
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'John' wrote:
| The sequence may be misleading because I typed user/pass in an
| interlaced mode.
| eg. user: ABCD, pass:1234 but I typed them as A1B2C3D4, or even
| A13[Backspace]B25[Backspace]..... and so on. Won't this way confuse
| simple keyloggers?
_____

Now I think I know what you mean; you enter characters alternately into the
'User ID' and 'Password' slots.

It MIGHT be better than nothing, but do you want to bet your security on it?
After all, if a keylogger has breached your security, what else may have?
And keyloggers don't just capture User ID and Password keystrokes.

Phil Weldon

"John" <john65537 DeleteThis @yahoo.com.tw> wrote in message
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| Phil,
|| After all, a 'keylogger' captures the key sequence you
|| type in, not what the results look like on the screen.
|
| The sequence may be misleading because I typed user/pass in an
| interlaced mode.
| eg. user: ABCD, pass:1234 but I typed them as A1B2C3D4, or even
| A13[Backspace]B25[Backspace]..... and so on. Won't this way confuse
| simple keyloggers?
|
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John

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:27 pm
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| Most Keyloggers are Trojans and not viruses. Some viruses do however
have keylogging
| capabilities.

As I know, Trojans are a type of viruses.
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John

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:48 pm
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>There are a new breed of
> trojans / keyloggers which is becomming more and more popular which
> register themselves as browser plugins (BHO - Browser Helper Objects -
> is the name for IE plugins) and capture the data when you are posting
> it to the site, meaning that if you have such a tool, you are
> defensless (no on screen keyboard, https or any other thing can help
> you). So have a good up-to-date antivirus.

For such a plugin attack, there should be no way to protect passwords
on simple webpages.
The workable technique that I can figure out is to embed a java applet
or COM in the webpage for inputting sensitive data, so that BHO has no
chance to capture posting data.
Right?
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