February 15th, 2011

Keelog USB Keylogger

Installation and Testing

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As you can see by the pictures above the key logger is hard to notice amidst the chaos behind most people’s computers – I even had to unplug a lot of my other USB items to be able to see the product in the picture.

I got sent the 4 mb versions of the loggers; however this capacity is more than enough, with over 1000 pages of recording potential. Installing the key logger is very easy, you simply plug the keyboard you want to monitor, in through the logger and within seconds the simple device is recording away.

To test this product I have already plugged it in to my computer and am logging this section of the review. This should give me an idea of how invisible it really is to my computer whilst I’m typing and it will allow me to see how it records text.

Essentially the logger performs its duty until I press a certain three letter combination when it then turns into a memory stick. This disables the keyboard but looking around the memory stick view of the product can be done with the mouse anyway so this doesn’t matter. So here goes, once I press the letters “kbs” all together I should be able to see everything I have just typed.

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And there we have it, everything I typed up until the end of the last paragraph. Apart from showing how bad I am at typing this image shows off the brilliantly simple software that is already on the key logger. The software only really has three buttons of interest firstly the save button which allows you to save a copy of the log.txt file, which stores all the logged information, to your own computer.
The second button is the most interesting, allowing you to search the document for certain terms, such as www. This allows you to filter out any uninteresting things such as letters to your Grandma or your conversation with Larry about dinner, and find out interesting things; such as what your employee has been doing instead of the billing report or just which website those moaning sounds have been coming from on your son’s computer.

The third button of interest is of course the close button which turns the memory stick back into a key logger and allows quick closing of the window so no one knows what you’ve just been doing.

Another good feature of the logger is its “config” window; this allows the user (or the planter) to change the 3 letter password to put it into flash drive mode. You can also change whether the logger records “special keys” such as backspace and enter, and whether it records keys typed on systems with an IME editor. The final use of this file is to turn logging on and off, so sadly, employers, if one of your employees finds the three letter combination they can turn logging off; however if you pick a good combination of letters and/or numbers, this is unlikely.