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> Commercial malware doesn't work this way. The term "keylogger" is a misnomer. I don't know about commercial malware, but at least in the 90s (which is when t
by cesarb 5y ago
> Commercial malware doesn't work this way. The term "keylogger" is a misnomer.
I don't know about commercial malware, but at least in the 90s (which is when these kinds of on-screen keyboards started to appear), it was not unusual to find on a computer "infected" with malware a text file containing every key that was pressed since the malware was installed.
Yes, nowadays malware tends to be much smarter: also capturing an image of the area around the mouse pointer on every click (which is the reason some on-screen keyboards blank the keys when you click), only logging when the window has an specific title (which is the reason some online banking sites add lots of random spaces and punctuation to the window title), or even using lower-level code to hook into the browser and directly capture the form contents on submission (which is the reason several online banking sites require you to use invasive "anti-malware" plugins which attempt to prevent these kinds of hooks).
- halJordan 5y agoIt hurts when you’re so old the kids don’t even know the countermeasure, let alone the threat it defeated.