Hi

forgive me if this has already been posted.

As you know a keylogger captures keyboard inputs for later retrieval either for legit purposes or not so.

The key thing is....they only know what has been typed....so if you are paranoid a keylogger may have been installed, you type more characters (if possible) than your password or login name.....and then use the mouse to cull the bits out.

eg

Username....akdhjlogin777name....highlight with mouse and delete until you get
username....loginname

eg 2

passwds often show up as *******...so it might be safer to count a certain number of stars pre or post your passwd to cull

*************.....becomes *********

hope that helps

Uh, no, that doesn't help at all - not for any keylogger at all - unless there's an unusually poorly designed one in existence out there.

Are you posting this as a tip, or do you have a question about the effectiveness of the technique, etc?

I read about it in a (umm) MS magazine so I was posting it as a tip.

Well, whoever wrote the article making that suggestion doesn't know what they're doing. I'm sure a lot of other people out there, like me, wish it were that easy.

i have failed to find the aussie mag

but I did find ..... Non-technological methods using the mouse which is similar to the article I read (at bottom of page)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging

comments jokes etc are most welcome.

cheerio