Thread: Enter sensitive data in a secure manner

While using Internet banking and online shopping services, you worry about hackers or trojans intercepting sensitive information like your PIN numbers and credit card data. The best way to avoid losing your numbers is to use a virtual keyboard. Then keylogger programs will not be able to secretly record and send out your keyboard entries. This useful function is integrated in Kaspersky 2009.



To use it, right click with the mouse on the Kaspersky icon in the system tray and select 'Virtual keyboard'. With a virtual keyboard, you can click the buttons on screen to input characters without any need to copy and paste the text, a process that exposes your sensitive information to the Clipboard utility. So, first click on the input field to be filled on the website, and then type your data by individual mouse clicks on the required letters. Even special keys like [Ctrll, [Altl and [Shift] can be used. You will see your current status in the dark shading on the left side.
Even Windows comes with a virtual keyboard included. To run it, click 'Start I Run .. .', type 'osk' and click 'OK'.