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10-Sep-2009, 07:11 AM #1
The universal defense against password snoops
"Your best defense is not to use any untrusted computer to sign in to any site that contains banking or sensitive personal information. When you simply must take a chance on using a random PC, however, you can minimize the risk — if not eliminate it.

Security blogger Ian Saxon publishes an approach that may not be 100% foolproof but should provide some reasonable protection when entering passwords. Writing on his Defending the Kingdom site, Saxon outlines what he calls the "revised Vesik method" for entering passwords:"
http://WindowsSecrets.com/comp/090910
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13-Sep-2009, 12:43 AM #2
I use KeyScrambler Personal
http://www.qfxsoftware.com/index.html

It helps out but the premium edition is so much better.
http://www.qfxsoftware.com/products.htm

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KeyScrambler encrypts your keystrokes in the kernel, giving keyloggers only "scrambled," meaningless keys to record.
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