FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Spyware is a type of malware that records your activities. A keylogger records every keystroke you make on your computer’s keyboard. With this information, a hacker can work out your username and password for a range of sites without even seeing what comes up on the screen.

Detailed explanation-2: -Short for “keystroke logging, ” a keylogger is a type of malicious software that records every keystroke you make on your computer. Keyloggers are a type of spyware-malware designed to spy on victims. Because they can capture everything you type, keyloggers are one of the most invasive forms of malware.

Detailed explanation-3: -Keyloggers, or keystroke loggers, are tools that record what a person types on a device. While there are legitimate and legal uses for keyloggers, many uses for keyloggers are malicious. In a keylogger attack, the keylogger software records every keystroke on the victim’s device and sends it to the attacker.

Detailed explanation-4: -It’s possible for advanced keyloggers to: Log clipboard text, recording information that you cut and paste from other documents. Track activity like opening folders, documents, and applications. Take and record randomly timed screenshots.

Detailed explanation-5: -Keylogger malware may reside in the computer operating system, at the keyboard API level, in memory or deep at the kernel level itself. Hardware keyloggers will likely be impossible to detect without physical inspection.