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Top 10 Best Free Keylogger Software to Monitor Keystrokes in Windows
A keylogger can be either a piece of software or a hardware device that can capture the keystrokes typed on the computer’s keyboard. A software keylogger can be run in the background and not get noticed by average users. They’ll have to depend on security software like anti-keyloggers or antivirus packages to tell them that a keylogger is present on the system, or else they will have no idea that things they do on the computer are being monitored.
There are many legitimate uses for a keylogger such as monitoring your children, making sure that they stay safe on the Internet especially when chatting and making friends with strangers. Or maybe even monitoring an employee making sure that they do not copy or leak out any confidential files. However, it can also be used for illegal or unethical purposes such as stealing passwords, reading private data and etc.
There are many software keyloggers around, some are freeware while others require a paid license to use. Free keyloggers are often more limited in functionality and stealthiness. After testing several free keyloggers, we’ve picked what we thought were the best and sorted them into a top 10. In addition to keylogging and features, we’ve also taken into account the ability of the keylogger to hide itself from the average user to prevent detection or tampering. All programs were tested in Windows 10 64-bit.
10. Spyrix Free Keylogger
Spyrix Free Keylogger is the free version of the paid Spyrix Personal Monitor. It is able to capture keystrokes, clipboard text and take screenshots but advanced features like social network & IM capture, visited webpage logging, webcam snapshots, sound recording, and alerts are not available. Spyrix can be launched with either a hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+A) or run command (runkey) and can be protected with a password.
We used to think Spyrix had potential if its stealth capabilities could be improved. Sadly, it went in the other direction and stealthiness is now non existent. Desktop shortcut, Start menu entry, installed program entry, and a tray icon are all shown in the free version. The process is visible in Task Manager and the install folder is not hidden. A good free keylogger has been spoiled by the fact it’s so easy to identify and kill by average users. This is a useful option only if the abilities to conceal the keylogger are not important to you.
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9. BlackBox Express
BlackBox Express is a security monitoring tool that can be used as a keylogger. The free version is from back in 2011 and is not for download on the official website but does work on the latest Windows 10. It works slightly different from the other tools because it can monitor 1 local PC and up to 200 remote PCs on the network. BlackBox Express can log keystrokes, web searches, ran programs, visited websites, email client programs, webmails, instant messaging chat programs, and capture screenshots.
You can exclude specific users from monitoring as well as adding alerts for keywords, websites and programs. BlackBox Express runs as a service and shows in Task Manager, on the desktop with a shortcut, in the Start Menu, in the installed programs list, and in Program Files. There’s no key combination shortcut so the only way to launch the program is from the shortcut or its executable in the program folder. Password protection is supported so at least other users can’t see the gathered logs.
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8. KidLogger
KidLogger is an open source user activity monitoring tool. Other than just logging keystrokes and the clipboard, it can also record USB drive insertions, file/folder activity, microphone audio, browser history and take screenshots including from Skype videos. You’re also able to set keywords as an alert during capture. The log files can be viewed locally or from your KidLogger online account (not required). KidLogger can be installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, BlackBerry, and iOS.
It’s unfortunate that KidLogger is visible in Task Manager, the Start menu, the Program Files folder, and the installed programs list, a shortcut is optional on install. There’s no hotkey or run command to launch the program so you’ll need to start it from one of those options. KidLogger can be password protected but that’s not a great comfort as it’s quite easy for savvy users to find and kill the program. Like Spyrix Free Keylogger and BlackBox Express, KidLogger is a viable option if stealth is not a priority.
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7. Real Free Keylogger
Real Free Keylogger is a simple no frills keylogger and was abandoned by its developer several years ago, the last update was to version 2.5 in 2014. After installation and during the initial launch, it will prompt you to set a password to protect the program so only you can access the settings and view the logs. You can set a different hotkey (default Ctrl+Alt+X) to launch the program when it is running in stealth mode.
The “Stealth Mode” button in the main window is a paid feature only although some measures are still taken to conceal the program. The program folder is set as system, there is no Start Menu entry, no installed programs entry, and no tray or desktop icons. A couple of processes do appear in Task Manager but they might blend in enough to possibly stop them being killed. Real Free Keylogger comes with a scheduler to automatically start logging and the log files can be exported as an HTML file.
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6. Revealer Keylogger Free
Revealer Keylogger Free can record keystrokes, has multiple language support, has all/selected user startup settings, the ability to run with elevated privileges, hotkey support (default is Ctrl+Alt+F9), password protection and automatic log cleanup. Screenshot capture and automated delivery options are paid features only and disabled in this free version.
Although the options to hide the process, program files and startup entry are not available in the free version, Revealer Keylogger Free is not visible in the system tray, the Start Menu or the installed programs list. To uninstall, run the program, click on the Help icon at the top right, go to “Program end” and select Uninstall.
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PUPs
Toolbars
Toolbars are software extensions that are visible in the GUI of the host program. In the case of PUPs, the host program is usually a browser. The visible part of the toolbar can vary from one extra button added to the browsers own taskbar, to the bar over the full width at the top of the browser window.
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Registry cleaner
A registry cleaner, also known as registry optimizer or registry defragmenter, is a program that claims to clean the computer’s registry in order to optimize the system’s performance. It is usually free.
Many favor downloading, installing, and running this type of program because they swear by the improved capabilities observed after the registry is cleaned. However, researchers claim that this perceived improvement can only be a form of placebo effect.
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Commercial keylogger
Commercial keyloggers are applications designed to harvest user interactions with a computer. These interactions include the capture of keystrokes, usernames and passwords, screenshots, collection of images and sound from the microphone/camera, printed documents, browser history, emails, chat logs, and more. Commercial keyloggers are similar to Infostealers in their ability to covertly collect user information, but differ in the fact that these programs can be obtained with a legitimate license through legal means. Commercial keyloggers are often marketed toward concerned spouses/parents who wish to monitor usage of a home PC, corporate IT/security teams maintaining DLP protocols, and auditors checking for conformity to policy.
Commercial keyloggers are often polished applications featuring huge selections of monitoring and stealth capabilities to assist users in maintaining a long-term presence. Due to the low cost and vast availability of these types of applications, commercial keyloggers have long been a preferred choice for criminals seeking a low barrier of entry for identity theft and fraud activities.
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Browser Hijack Objects (BHOs)
Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) are add-ons or plugins designed for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE). Designed to enable COM objects to be written that will load with the browser (both IE and Windows Explorer), BHOs were a means to enhance the functionality of the browser. Their first use was to add toolbars to the browser windows.
Although these objects are usually dll files, we have also seen dat and exe files. The unrestricted access that BHOs have by design in IEs Document Object Model make them a powerful tool in the hands of attackers. In the Windows registry, the BHOs are registered by globally unique identifiers called CLSIDs under the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects. There the CLSIDs are sub-keys that enumerate the BHOs in use on that system.
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Browser extensions
Browser extensions are computer programs that add functionality to existing browsers. They come in as many kinds (and more) as there are browsers.
Internet Explorer distinguishes between toolbars and browser helper objects (BHOs). Other browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari call them add-ons or simply extensions.
For PUPs, the economically most interesting browsers are the most popular ones, e.g. Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.
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PUPs
Adware
Adware, short for advertising supported software, is arguably the forerunner of the modern day PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program). Adware is typically a standalone program which displays adverts to the end-user in a variety of forms: inside the program itself, or via pop-ups, slide-in adverts, browser pop-ups, inserted adverts, or altered website content. The revenue generated by the adverts is how the program the adware is attached to is paid for, meaning the end-user receives their desired tool or service for “free.” Unfortunately, adware has a history of dubious value propositions, and what is initially offered can often turn out to be a scam or not what the end-user intended.
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PUPs
Ad fraud
Advertising (ad) fraud, also called click fraud or click spam, is a practice by bad actors, specifically dubious advertising networks, wherein they deliberately use automated programs—from simple to sophisticated bots and botnets—to interact with advertisements online. They do this by simulating legitimate users into clicking ads, visiting pages, and (in some instances) creating fake form submissions.
While it is common knowledge that fraud earnings of this sort are inflated via automated means, some claim that a significant portion of ad click traffic is generated by actual people (low-wage workers). Furthermore, some form of fraud involves ads that are never seen in the wild by Internet users and ads that publishers intentionally misrepresent. Regardless of how click fraud is played, the objective of people and organizations behind them varies. The most obvious one is to generate high profit, the less obvious one is to incriminate or damage the profit of competitors.
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Free Keylogger for Parents FAQs
If you have registered a Free Keylogger paid license, you can hide Free Keylogger from computer users. When hidden, the program starts automatically and begins monitoring, without displaying dialogs or pop-ups, when the computer boots. Go to the Settingsarea and check the box next to Hide from computer users. The box is checked by default if you are using a paid license key.
2. How do I configure Free Keylogger to email logs?
You can configure Free Keylogger to send its logs to an email address. Logs are emailed as a zipped file attachment and sent over a secure connection. To open the attached file, you must use the same password you selected for opening and closing Free Keylogger's main dialog. (See the FAQ How do I start, open, and close Free Keylogger?)
With a Free Keylogger paid license, you can choose how frequently to send logs. Using Free Keylogger's free version you can only send logs manually, by clicking the Send/Testbutton.
To configure Free Keylogger to email logs, follow these steps:
1. Be sure to set a password for opening Free Keylogger's main interface. You use the same password for opening the zipped log files emailed to you. If you do not set a password, the logs are sent, but they are not password protected. See the FAQ How do I start, open, and close Free Keylogger?
2. In the Mail settingsarea, make a selection in the Send logs everydrop-down but do not select never. If you are using a paid license, you can select any interval for sending logs. If you are using a free license, select manually.
3. In the field below Send logs every, select your email provider from the drop-down list. The email server address for the provider is automatically shown in the Serverfield. Enter your email address in the User namefield and your email account password in the Passwordfield. Then click Send/Testto test your settings.
If your provider is not shown in the list, select otherand enter your provider's email server address in the Serverfield. If you use an email client, like Microsoft Outlook, you can find the address by going to your account settings and looking for “outgoing mail server.” Find an address like smtp.hotmail.comor mail.mindspring.com. If you cannot find your provider's email server address, look the Mail Server Addresses list below. Contact HeavenWard support at support@hwsuite.comif you need additional assistance.
If you only use an internet webmail service, like Yahoo or Hotmail, through a web browser, look for your provider's email server address in the Mail Server Addresses list below. Contact HeavenWard support at support@hwsuite.comif you need additional assistance.
Mail Server Addresses:
- Adelphia: mail.adelphia.net
- Amaze.net.au: mail.amaze.net.au
- Ameritech DSL: smtp.ameritech.yahoo.com
- Prodigy: smtp.prodigy.yahoo.com
- Qwest Internet Service: pop.dnvr.qwest.net
- Purplenet: smtp.purplenet.co.uk
3. How do I change Free Keylogger's interface language?
To change Free Keylogger's interface language, go to the Settingsarea and click the Languagebutton. The Select languagedialog opens. Select a language and click OK.
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