Top Keyloggers Compare--Choose Best Keylogger for Windows

keylogger comparison	Anykeylogger	refog keylogger	Revealer keylogger	Elite Keylogger&nbsp	All In One keylogger	Ardamax keylogger
Price	$29.95	$69.95	$39.99	$79.00	$69.95	$44.95
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OS support	Anykeylogger Windows	Refog personal	Revealer keylogger	Elite Keylogger	All In One keylogger	Ardamax keylogger
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Security
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Monitoring
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keystrokes	√	√	√	√	√	√
screenshots	√	√	√	√	√	√
application	√	√		√	√	√
password	√	√	√	√	√	√
clipboard	√	√		√	√	√
sounds	√	√		√	√	√
Online Monitoring
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websites	√	√			√	√
Control
block website	√				√
block application	√				√
time control	√
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size	3.85 MB	1.77 MB	1.35 MB	8 MB	4.4 MB	1.6 MB
Review	Anykeylogger Windows	Refog personal	Revealer keylogger	Elite Keylogger	All In One keylogger	Ardamax keylogger
	This type of keylogger is easy to install and use. Its rich functions leave me a good impression.It's not only a keylogger that can be used to record computer activities, but also a parental control tool that can be used to control and manage chidlren's Internet use.And I like its main interface,straightforward and user-friendly.	It flexibly allows you to configure multiple alerts on harmful or offensive keystrokes sent or received on target computer. You can set alarms, and get notified instantly with real-time alerts if a pre-defined event happens on their PC.But it lacks some features if you want to take it as a parental control tool.	This keylogger is very very simple. If you just want to record keystrokes and screenshots, you can choose it.	It can run on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista and XP. Unfortunately, the rest of the operating systems are not supported.Its main interface is nice and functions can basically meet users' need of a keylogger.Its price is the highest among all the six keyloggers.It will be better if it can record both side of chats	It has comprehensive functions as a keylogger program, and it works well in recording keystrokes and capturing screenshots, etc.But its delivery feature sometimes fails to work, and for me its price is a little bit high.	It can do most things of that is supposed to be done by a keylogger, while it fails to log email.Other functions works well.
Summary:If you just need a keylogger that can be used to record strokes and screenshots, you can use Revealer Keylogger or Ardamax Keylogger.If you need a keylogger to help you do more things, such as parental control, you'd better choose the other keyloggers, for they have more functions.Judging from price,function, and performance,I think Anykeylogger and Refog Keylogger are better choices.

How to completely protect your USB?

As more and more individuals and enterprises are emphasizing on the importance of data security. Password protection technology has become a hot topic nowadays. Today, I'm going to show my own opinions about a variety of data protection methods based on my experience.

Part one: Protect your USB from being accessed

There's a kind of products that aims at protecting external hard drives, such as USB flash drive, pen drive, memory card, thumb drive etc.This kind of encryption products is designed for password protecting files stored in flash drives. USB encryption products can be divided into encryption hardware, encryption software and encryption method built in Windows OSes.

1.      Secure data with USB encryption hardware.

The first one is just a kind of special USB flash drives with built-in fingerprint processing technology, some USB encryption hard drive allows owner to set several admin fingerprints and user fingerprints. In addition to the fingerprints identification, the USB encryption hardware provides second layer of protection---you can set password for the USB. However, the price of this kind of hardware is a little bit high. Maybe you will say that it's worthwhile for data security, while what if you need many these USB flash drives? That would be a significant amount of expense.

2.      Protect USB with bitlocker

Bitlocker drive belongs to the second classification; it is free to encrypt external hard drives in some Windows OSes. Bitlocker is able to protect hard drives from physical access to the drive. That's to say, if someone take your hard drive from you and connect it to another PC trying to access the data in it, the Bitlocker will make the drive unreadable. This function adopts 128 bit or 256 bit encryption technology, which is strong enough to protect the data stored in computer and USBs. What's more, it's completely free. However, it has many shortcomings, for example: it can only be used to lock the entire hard drive; and time needed for encryption is depends on the memory space, it's generally very slow. And there's another problem, Bitlocker drive isn't supported by all Windows operating systems, Windows 7 Professional, Windows Vista Business Edition and the Home Editions do not include BitLocker.

3.  Protect USB by TrueCrypt

Regarding to USB encryption software, there’re many such kind of programs on the Internet. TrueCrypt is freeware and you can follow the tutorial on the site to learn how to use it. As its description on the site, there're only four requirements for you to complete the USB encryption: a computer with a USB port, a computer with a Windows operating system, a user account with 'administrator' rights, a USB stick. However, I have to say that the process of whole encryption with this program is too complex. Nowadays, people are all searching for tools that are effective and easy to install and use. I just try to lock my flash drive with it once and then have no interest to use it again. Concerning this point, Kakasoft USB security is better than it. It's easy to install and easy to use, you can complete encryption in several steps. This software is able to lock individual files in USB, while it can't prevent others storing files in the USB flash drive.

4.  Protect USB by hiding in partition

And there's another way that can be found on the Internet---creating a hidden partition on USB flash drive to hide all files. Actually, this method is useful for people to backup files so as to avoid unintentionally formatting data. If you want to password protect files stored in the USB flash drives, you need to use another encryption program to set a password for it.

Part two: Protect individual file or folder in USB

1.       Manually protect each file

Sometimes we often need to share our files in USB with others. However, we may store some files that we don’t want others to view them. In this situation, what should we do? In fact, some files have built-in password protection function, for example, word, power point, excel, etc. which allow you to save them with a password.  Of course, the secure level of this kind of built-in protection is not that high; some programs even don't have this function, such as picture, software and so on.

2.       Protect folder on USB by Kakasoft folder protector

Regarding to the problem above, I choose to adopt folder protector software to protect individual files in PC or USB flash drives. In order to protect different forms of documents in one time, I put them in one folder and encrypt the folder with this software. However this software can only be used in Windows operating systems.

Conclusion:

There are always many topics about data security, and there are always many solutions to data leakage. Data security is not only a problem of enterprise; it's also a problem of our individuals. How to find out an effective data encryption program that is suitable for us? In my opinion, try and test are necessary; besides, searching relevant knowledge on forums and collecting others advices will also help you a lot.

Resource: 

http://www.wikihow.com/Completely-Protect-Your-USB

Identity Theft and Solutions

You may have heard the news about identity theft happened or happening in our daily life. Now identity theft will appear in many different ways and new methods of information theft will be soon created by those who are living for stealing others’ personal data and information. People who suffered from identity theft must know and understand the different ways of information theft. You should understand how it occurs before you take measures to fight against this crime.

How does information theft occur?

One type of information theft occurs after the criminal has obtained the victim’s personal financial information, and then the criminal utilize the information to open a new account to purchase or consume under the new account.

Another type of information theft is criminal theft, which means the criminal will break laws to offer false information to authorities. This kind of information theft causes many criminal activities that people can’t track the criminal’s trace.

Almost all information theft involves money, especially the business and commercial information theft. Business information theft will result in great financial and reputational loss to both the owner and the customer of the business.

When you read this article, you may wonder how it happens and how can you prevent it from happening. The identity theft may dig your personal trash to obtain your personal information, you may think it impossible, and while you should know that your personal data and information will be reuse by those who are willing to use your information to do bad things when you randomly throw away the rubbish with your personal information in it. Another way you’re your identity information will be stolen is that your purse with credit card and medical card has been stolen. There’s another way that lead to your identity information loss. Your children or family members may carelessly disclose your information when you tend to store the information in your PC. The Internet makes us able to access to the world and also makes others can easily access to the information stored in your computer. With some malware in the market, hackers who want to steal your information are able to get your information. If you tend to store your confidential and personal information such as credit information and medical data without any protection in your PC, your children or family members use this PC when you are away, they may access the information and disclose it by misconducts. For example, hackers will send link with virus or email with malware attachment to your children, once your children click on the link or download the attachment and open it; the virus and malware in them will soon invade your computer to damage or steal the data.

How to prevent identity theft?

Check your credit card consumption report and change your password of such kind of identity information. You’d better set different passwords for different cards. If you always store your personal information in PC, I recommend you to password protect windows folder contained your information. You can encrypt the files with third party software so that other s can’t access your information without correct password.

Folder protector donwload link:  http://download.cnet.com/Folder-Protector/3000-2092_4-10829601.html?tag=mncol;2

Take Right Actions to Avoid Data Leakage

It’s acknowledged that the biggest problem faced with the USB Flash Drive security of data and the protection from infected viruses and malware which will corrupt the machines that are connected to it or when data are shared. Since the USB flash drive is widely utilized as a powerful storage device, people like to save their documents and information in it and take them anywhere. What if your USB flash drive loses?

As for security, these also act as one of the biggest threat to any organization, as these are so handy that the important and secured data can be easily taken away with no efforts and the company will pay higher price than imagine. So it is prohibited in many corporations to carry a password protect usb drive away.

The solution for this is now available with features like antivirus software, password protection, encryption.

For antivirus software, it will help to ensure that your flash drive won’t be infected by virus. As for password protection and encryption, it can also be helpful to have a password Flash drive. When you are on your home PC, password protection and encryption will help you protect your data in USB drive from other users’ access. Of course, if the data in your USB dive is not only for you yourself, if you want to share the content of you USB drive to others, you can choose a type of flash drive copy protection software which has a function of configuration of access permission, then you can assign access right for different people.
 
The best secure USB flash drives should adopt the newest government and corporate grade encryption standards, and it should be more than sufficient to protect your data. Its practicality and convenience should meet the requirement of security of both normal users and corporate users. Choose a USB flash drive with proper usb encryption complexity that's comfortable for you.

Apart from utilizing extra protection USB drive, you firstly should use it correctly. Some just take away the USB without properly doing the 'safely remove device' procedure. This sometimes results in loss of data as the data gets corrupted and is lost in this procedure. It is highly recommended that not to try such things if your data is really important.