It is sometimes a good security precaution to avoid using the computer keyboard, especially on public computer systems and other systems that are not under direct control. Keyloggers are still a threat and can transfer every single key that has been entered by the user to a central server. That’s bad if the keys can be linked to activities, like opening the PayPal url, and typing in the PayPal email address and password.
Virtual keyboards defeat most keyloggers, who often concentrate solely on the computer keyboard, and not other means of text input.
The UserScript Virtual Keyboard Interface makes it a lot easier to work with virtual keyboards in supported web browsers.
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Using a UserScript offers advantages over software based virtual keyboards. Two of the biggest advantages are better and faster accessibility of the keyboard on the screen.
Virtual Keyboard Interface supports text fields, password fields and text areas at the moment, which means that it cannot be used in the web browser’s address bar or search form.
The keyboard is displayed on the screen by double-clicking into the text field on the website. We actually had to triple-click to get it working, but that’s a minor problem.
The virtual keyboard is then displayed beneath the text field. It offers different keyboard layouts, for instance for US, Germany, Russian or Japanese users.
Keys are entered by left-clicking with the mouse on them. It is furthermore possible to change the size of the keyboard, which unfortunately does not stick after the page has been closed.
Virtual Keyboard Interface is compatible with Firefox and Google Chrome. Users of those web browsers can download and install the script from the official UserScripts website. Firefox users need the Greasemonkey extension before they can install the script.
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