Keyloggers are a serious threat for everyone who is using the internet for sensitive applications such as online banking or shopping. The biggest thread in my opinion comes from trojans and viruses that log all keystrokes once activated. Other possibilities include local installations of keyloggers and successful hacking attempts.
Keyscrambler for Firefox is a add-on that encrypts the keystrokes and decrypts them in the browser. This ensures that the keyloggers can only log the encrypted keystrokes which protects the original data. Every time you enter data in a sensitive area a overlay is displayed which displays the encrypted keystrokes. The data is of course encrypted and entered correctly in the form to ensure that you can use the service as usual.
This add-on seems to be only working with Windows because it installs some additional files during the installation of the add-on which open a normal windows installation dialog. I did not experience the troubles that some of the comments described at the mozilla website. The add-on is running fluently without complications.
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At last some addon has come to protect from keyloggers.Thanx for informing us.
Great utility but I don’t like the way the plugin reduces the size of your browser screen.
We appreciate the review of KeyScrambler you published last December, but with the publication this year of KeyScrambler 2.0, we’d now like to update your information. The free Personal version of KeyScrambler 2.0 protects everything you type into Firefox, Internet Explorer or Flock against keyloggers, not just login information, and all websites, including online banking, online shopping, web email, forums, and more. KeyScrambler Professional now protects 15 major browsers and 19 major email and instant messaging clients against keyloggers as well as email and IM/VoIP. It costs $29.99. Thanks for your support.
After ZoneAlarm ForceField was installed, the actual bank log-in details were appearing in the KeyScrambler Encrypted Keystrokes window on the top and the encrypted keystrokes were appearing in the bank log-in fields in the bank website.
Initially i had problems of popups constantly telling me to update when i was using the latest version but, after doing a full restore unrelated to keyscrambler, i installed it as a firefox addon from the firefox site…is that the reason all the issues stopped…i don’t know, but i’ve now been using keyscrambler personal for close to a year and the only problem is that on occasion it will type out the encrypted characters…but just backspacing and retyping takes care of that. So, i consider that a minor issue. I would recommend this software.