What?
Keylogger (according to http://www.urbandictionary.com)
A keylogger is a spy tool used to capture your keystrokes. The most common keyloggers are software based. There's also hardware keyloggers. A keylogger is a double-edged sword, meaning it can be used for good and bad. It might be used by parents or guardians to monitor their children's internet activity or be used by criminals to steal your passwords, social security numbers, and credit card numbers. Keyloggers might be attached to trojan/viruses. Keyloggers hide and are very hard to detect by a novice. They don't show up in processes. Keyloggers might hook to your keyboard which is the most common way or inject its self deep into the kernel of your operating system which makes it very difficult to detect and remove.
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I don't really notice these type of links anywhere but official wow forums, and as soon as someone posts a link as such the next posters always like
"He didn't ask about keyloggers actually."
"when are these guys gonna give it up?"
Now to my main question, should i be afraid of clicking on every hyper link with peculiar address? Furthermore if i click on a like whats it take me to? I don't think my pc will automatically download an exe file but i've never tried to goto one on purpose and not sure if ive visited one by accident; so im kinda curious as to what threat they pose.
Excuse my information super highway newbiery, thanks people.
Keylogger (according to http://www.urbandictionary.com)
A keylogger is a spy tool used to capture your keystrokes. The most common keyloggers are software based. There's also hardware keyloggers. A keylogger is a double-edged sword, meaning it can be used for good and bad. It might be used by parents or guardians to monitor their children's internet activity or be used by criminals to steal your passwords, social security numbers, and credit card numbers. Keyloggers might be attached to trojan/viruses. Keyloggers hide and are very hard to detect by a novice. They don't show up in processes. Keyloggers might hook to your keyboard which is the most common way or inject its self deep into the kernel of your operating system which makes it very difficult to detect and remove.
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I don't really notice these type of links anywhere but official wow forums, and as soon as someone posts a link as such the next posters always like
"He didn't ask about keyloggers actually."
"when are these guys gonna give it up?"
Now to my main question, should i be afraid of clicking on every hyper link with peculiar address? Furthermore if i click on a like whats it take me to? I don't think my pc will automatically download an exe file but i've never tried to goto one on purpose and not sure if ive visited one by accident; so im kinda curious as to what threat they pose.
Excuse my information super highway newbiery, thanks people.
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