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| Guest | a dumb question: on-screen keyboard... would using an onscreen keyboard to type in passwords when on a wifi hotspot avoid capture by keylogging programs? reason i ask, i was just reading a Norton email about password security and they mentioned that one shouldn't log in to a bank site when on those hotspots due to possible key loggers. Dave |
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| Guest | Re: a dumb question: on-screen keyboard... Keyloggers run on individual machines, not on entire hotspots. The session between a workstation and the bank's web server is protected with SSL. So if someone were sniffing traffic from the hotspot, your password would be protected. However, if you were using some kiosk computer (rather than your own), then it is possible that keylogging software on that machine could intercept your password before it gets passed to the SSL encryption. I never worry about hotspots, because I always use only my own laptop. I do, though, worry a bit about kiosks. Onscreen keyboards really don't help here. Sure, they can thwart keyloggers, but what about screen recorders? What about rootkits or trojans (again, installed on a kiosk) that can hijack a session after login happens? Public machines simply present too many risks. -- Steve Riley steve.riley@xxxxxx http://blogs.technet.com/steriley http://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com "David" <david@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:57WdnX9LFOxh3HTbnZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: a dumb question: on-screen keyboard... Steve Riley [MSFT] wrote:
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