Foils keyloggers using encrypted communication between keyboard and browser. Feeds bogus keys to keyloggers. Clearly indicates when protection is/isn't active. Needs no signatures or updates.
Doesn't prevent keyloggers from monitoring the clipboard, taking screenshots, and so on. Protects only Internet Explorer.
GuardedID protects sensitive data by establishing an encrypted alternate communication line between your physical keyboard and IE. It stops keyloggers only from logging keys (they can still log many other system events), but supplies additional protection for online financial transactions.
Keyloggers hook into your system at many different levels for one purpose: to capture passwords, secrets, and anything else you type. GuardedID 1.02 is equally single-minded. Its sole purpose is to provide a secure path between your keyboard and Internet Explorer, one that the keyloggers can't tap. It doesn't look to see whether there are keyloggers snooping your system, and it certainly doesn't try to remove them. It just battens down that all-important data path to protect your online passwords and personal information.
Despite the version number of 1.02, this is a significant update from version 1.0, reviewed last November. The most important difference is that it protects the transmission of keystrokes to the browser at even more levels. StrikeForce Technologies Vice President George Waller explained that the initial release protected keystrokes all the way from the keyboard to the browser. It prevented key capture using a Microsoft Windows hook, a driver filter, or even a replacement keyboard driver. It turned out, though, that some keyloggers managed to capture keystrokes after they were handed off to the browser. The new version extends its protective coverage into the Document Object Model within Internet Explorer.
Of course, if a keylogger is already present on your system, it might snag your credit card information when you purchase GuardedID. Wouldn't that be ironic? To head off that possibility, StrikeForce now offers a 30-day free trial. You can install the trial version and then confidently enter your financial data to purchase the nonlimited version.
The toolbar that GuardedID installs in IE has slimmed down in this new version, and by default its security is always onyou don't have to click a button to activate it. When the cursor is in a text box that GuardedID can protect, the toolbar displays a green On icon. In most cases, GuardedID also turns the background of the text box itself green, or whatever "CryptoColor" you select. If the cursor is in a text box that GuardedID can't protect, there's no CryptoColor background, and the toolbar shows a red Off icon.
GuardedID can protect any text box on a normal HTML pagegreen light all the way. But when a site resorts to Java or Flash for user input, it can't make the connection. You can always see whether what you're typing at the moment is protected and choose whether to continue.Next: Protect Me, GuardedID!