Prevent keyloggers from grabbing your passwords(VESIK METHOD)
Vesik method revised
- Suppose your password is Jk5pGHmY9
- Type three random characters into the password field (say, Wv5)
- With your mouse, highlight those random characters and type three more random characters right over them (say, aUJ). Repeat this step a few times (the more you repeat, the harder it is for someone looking at a log of your keystrokes to figure out your true password)
- Highlight the last portion of gibberish you typed and input a segment of your true password (say, pGH)
- Place your cursor to the left or right of the correct portion of your password and repeat steps 2 to 4
- Once your whole password is contained within the password field, click the “Submit” or “Log in” button
This is effective because a keylogger would register something similar to the following set of keystrokes:
click Wv5 click d3i click M%f click pGH click Opl click 37s click Jk5 click rF9 click 1N8 click mY9 click
Your true password is contained in those keystrokes, but neither a computer program nor a human looking at them would know which strokes are legitimate and which aren’t. Most thieves would move on to an easier target if they ran into a mess like this one. However, if the thief was persistent, he could probably find your true password by trial and error. But his chances for each attempt are low, at around 1 in 10 million.
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