What can we do with keylogger?

The Internet means connection that connects all digital gadgets including mobile phone and computer, it’s a chain linking people together and bringing the world closer. The Internet is a huge hardware combination of millions of personal, commercial and governmental computers; it’s just like roads and highways that can connect all people thousands miles away together. And the shared sources also utilize this channel to achieve to all people who need them. The Internet has become an easy to use method of communication today. Its service of supplying knowledge and news all around the world has made it an indispensable part of our life. The Internet provides us with all types of materials and sources so we can effortlessly obtain what we want.

Since the easily acquisition of materials and sources, children especially teenagers are also touch things that are not suitable for them. Parents have no idea about what their children have done or are doing with the Internet, and children may browse porn or violent contents on the Internet out of their intentional or unintentional motivates. And sometimes administrators of businesses worry that employees may disclose or leak confidential or sensitive data and information of company by misconducts of computer, they at most time choose to install company network management and control system to track and control employees operations on computer and company’s important files and documents.

One of the best answers to these concerns is to use third party program – keylogger to track and record computer activities, and parents or administrators of businesses can take timely actions to prevent things happening. Generally used keyloggers are divided into two types, one of which is hardware keylogger, and the other is keylogger software. If you are using hardware keylogger, what you need to do is to plug the keylogger into the computer and then the keylogger will record all your keystrokes typed in keyboard. And USB hardware keylogger is one of the most common hardware keyloggers, it automatically runs when the computer starts, and it can hardly be noted by target computer users. With USB hardware keylogger, you can keep an eye on people’s computer activities. It can be used by company to manage and master employees’ computer activities to ensure important company data and information won’t be disclosed to others. Sometimes parents utilize it to monitor children’s computer usage to see whether they are talking to wrong people who are alleged online predators or pedophiles. And the keylogger software is installed on computer, it works after computer boosts. This kind of keyloggers is usually not only recording keystrokes, recording visited websites and capturing screenshots, etc. are all its extensible features which can better assist to manage and keep track of computer activities. Besides, some keylogger program even extend features with parental control function, which allows parents to block sites and application on children’s computer, and with which parents can easily limit children’s computer use time.

Keylogger is a tool that can record computer key strokes or activities. Proper use will make it serve parents and employers, while negative use makes it become a weapon to breach computer users privacy.

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How to protect folder on Win with or without software?

Do you want to prevent unauthorized access to folder and files in your computer? Do you want absolute control over access to your folders and files in Win? The built-in feature of password protection of Win helps you protect folders and files in computer quickly. With its assistance, you can ensure nobody else can access your folders and files without permissions.

On a computer with Windows operating system, users can set a admin Windows account and password to ensure all his/her data and information are private. The Windows system can protect the files and folders in admin account by requiring the users to input users name and password when trying to log in the account. This protecting admin account method eliminated the need of password protection for folders and files in local computer. Folders and files in local computer need extra protection if you want to share or exchange files and folders on local computer. Set password on folders and files, and then the directory will be also protected and all users will be asked for password to access to the files and folders every time.

How to set password for folders and files?

1.       Close the files and folders you want to password protect

You must close the folders and files you want to protect before setting a password. You must ensure all the files including executable files in the folder stop, otherwise the system will fail to password protect the folders. If you can’t stop some executable files in the folder, press ctrl+alt+delete to view the Windows task manager to stop the programs running.

2.       Password protect the target folders and files

Right click on the folder or files you want to protect and select “Properties”.

Click on “Advanced” button in the popup properties menu, check “Encrypt contents to secure data” and then click on “Ok”.

And then you’re back to properties menu, and you will be asked if you wish to encrypt the files and subfolders in the folder when you click on “Ok”. Check “Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files” in the popup window and then click on “Ok”.

In order to ensure you can get back your files and folders when you lose your password or computer gets damaged, you are advised to back up the protect folders before the protection. This protection method can be used to prevent unauthorized users accessing the folders in admin account, but they can also access to the folders if you have entered your account and left away from your computer for a while. And the protection launched by Windows system is not strong enough and can easily be breached. To ensure important and sensitive folders and files security, you’d better adopt the third party tool such as folder protector that’s adopting 256-bit on-the-fly AES encryption technology to encrypt folders. This kind of programs is portable and easy to use. You can just unprotect the folder temporarily for viewing the contents in it, and then the program will automatically restore protection after you close the folder.