Quiet

Introduction

Quiet prevents user mode software keystroke loggers from logging keystrokes. Keystroke loggers are modules that record what a user types on the keyboard, including passwords and other private information.

Even though websites such as online banking sites claim total security through encryption and some anti-phishing techniques, keystroke loggers are impervious to these defense because they are run on local machines before the data are encrypted. This makes keystroke loggers particularly threatening to privacy and security.

What Quiet defends against

There are many types of keystroke loggers. Quiet guards against a particular class of keystroke loggers that run as user mode processes. Other kinds of keystroke loggers include hardware based and kernel driver based.

To defend against hardware based keystroke loggers, the user need to physically secure their hardware so that no hardware keystroke logging device is installed without the user's knowledge. As to kernel driver based software keystroke loggers, the user should follow common security practice, such as logging on and running as a computer user (as opposed to administrator) in normal usage, and do not install software of unknown origin.

Download

Click here to get, includes demo keystroke logger. Zip version here (rename to .zip.gz if it fails to unzip).