I understand that Identity Safe will keep the stored information safe from key loggers. But what keeps intruders from capturing your Identity Safe Login Password when you key it in.
Hi Jill,
1. You have to clean your system from these nasty malwares, all of them !!
2. You must use securíty softwares that prevents these malwares to enter your
system again !!
That´s the security thinking you need to have, when going live on the internet.
Internet today is not a safe place to be on, without a very good protection i.e. firewall +
a complete malware protection, including real time protection and full scanning capabillities.
N360v3 and Norton Internet Security 2010 are supplied with these absolutely basic functions.
Could you tell us what kind of security softwares you are using at this moment ?
We´ll guide you, if you need help to select an optimum protection suitable for your
personal needs.
Message Edited by Kurt on 10-08-2009 11:50 PM
Welcome, BurnabyJill. As Kurt said the best protection is a clean PC. If you are afraid that malware may be lurking on your PC you could download, install, update, and run a full scan with the free version of Malwarebytes Antimalware. Post the results back here. You may want to consider leaving it on your PC as an on demand scanner and scan with it every now and then just to make sure your PC stays malware free. MBAM
Hi BurnabyJill,
That's a great question. I'm an engineer, not a marketing person, so I'll give you my answer.The various malware detection features in N360 (definition & heuristic detection, SONAR...) already detect and block keylogging malware, and they should block keyloggers that would try to capture your Identity Safe login. Moreover, Norton Tamper Protection prevents malware from injecting itself into the product and trying to log keystrokes in that manner. Your Identity Safe login is well protected by the rest of the product's features.
This begs the question- why is Identity Safe promoted as protecting your logins from keyloggers? I think that although that's an accurate statement, it doesn't convey the main security benefit of the feature. The main security benefit of using Identity Safe is that it makes it easier to use strong passwords in a secure way. By this I mean that it makes it easy to save complex passwords that would otherwise be difficult to remember, and to save unique ones for each site that you log into. Most people use the same password for multiple sites, and most peoples' logins are unfortunately easy to guess or crack. This is because it's difficult and incovenient to use unique strong passwords for every site. The bad guy gets ahold of someone's email password, figures out what financial instititutions the victim uses, and tries the password on those sites.
The bottom line is that you should keep the anti-malware features of the product enabled; don't disable them. Use Identity Safe to make it easy to use very strong passwords for your website logins. Change your Identity Safe password every so often and don't write it down.
Hope this helps,
John
Another layer of Keylogger protection you might want to consider is KeyScrambler. The personal version is free. It’s available from the developer QFX Software.
Message Edited by geneintexas on 10-09-2009 09:34 PM
Hi geneintexas,
I´ll download the KeyScambler and try it for testing.
NIS2010 Download Insight has given it "ok" to download.
That´s good enough for me !!
It´ll probably take some time to test it, because I´ve had no such malwares on my systems
so far.
But you never know when !!
Hi geneintexas,
I´ve installed the personal free version and have also found, that KeyScrambler is installed
as a so called BHO, Browser Helper Object, on both IE8 and FF 3.5.3.
So far none of my other security softwares has reacted on this newcomer, a peaceful one
not making any noice at all.
KeyScrambler is one of the Firefox Add Ons. The version I´ve installed, is downloaded
from the manufactorers homepage and covers more browsers, not only Firefox.
Everytime I "key-in" something, a green popup on top of the browser window verifies and
add an encryption message.
So far so good.
I´ll accept KeyScrambler being installed, and give more info when I have it.
"geneintexas", thanks for your advise !!
Thanks, I first learned about KeyScrambler on the Malwarebytes forum. I’ve been using it for about a month. It just seems to be there. No slow downs or other distractions (except for the little flag when it’s working). I hadn’t picked up on the BHO. Thanks for the heads up on that.
There is a KeyScrambler line item in the Firefox “Tools” drop down than brings up a setup box for KeyScrambler. I’m guessing that’s the BHO.