Online Armor detects keyloggers by how they act, assuring the greatest level of detection and ensuring that they cannot bypass the Online Armor firewall.
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- Accessing the Keyloggers page in Online Armor (Video)
- Allowing a program you trust "Keylogging" permission. (Video)
- Blocking a program you do not trust from "Keylogging) (Video)
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Online Armor uses OASIS to automatically allow known Trusted programs, and block Untrusted programs, as much as possible to minimize the amount of pop-ups that you see. For any potential Keylogger you should first see a pop-up when the program first tries to run. If it’s Allowed to run and begins to act like a Keylogger then Online Armor will block the behavior and pop-up to ask you if you want to allow it to proceed. The Keylogger pop-up is very simple. The pop-up shows you the file name, the location of the file on your hard drive, and allows you to choose to “Remember my decision” to prevent pop-ups for this program again in the future. You can click the More button to be taken to the Online Armor website to view any information that Online Armor has collected about this program. |
Once a Keylogger has been Allowed or Blocked it will be added to the Key Loggers list. You can access this list by opening the Online Armor Control Panel and selecting Key Loggers from the main menu.
The Key Loggers list is organized using a table with the following columns:
- Status – Shows whether the Keylogger was Allowed or Blocked.
- Program Name – The name of the program file that was detected as a possible Keylogger.
- Name – Shows the name of the program that was detected as a possible Keylogger.
Each row is color coded to indicate whether the program is Trusted (green), Untrusted (red), Unknown (salmon), or is no longer present (gray).
A legend showing the colors and their corresponding status can be found in the Options tab of the Keyloggers list.
Underneath the list are the following buttons:
- Allow – If a Keylogger has been Blocked then this button will be enabled and will change the Keylogger to Allowed.
- Block – Blocks the Keylogger activity and configures Online Armor to automatically block any future Keylogger activity from this program.
- Delete – Removes the Keylogger from this list and deletes any associated history information that Online Armor has associated with this program. Deleting the item will cause Online Armor to pop up again if the program acts like a Keylogger again in the future.
Online Armor does not show Trusted programs by default to keep the Keyloggers list more manageable. Remove the check next to the “Hide Trusted” box to the left of the buttons at the bottom to see any Trusted programs in the list.
You can right-click any item in the Key Loggers list to access the following additional
options:
- Show file information – Shows any information about the file that was included by the maker of the program, including the full path to the file on your hard drive, the name of the program, the program version, the company that made it, the date it was created, the description, and any copyright information. Most programmers include all of this information with their files, but some may omit some of this information. You can also click More to be taken to the Online Armor website for any information Online Armor has collected about this particular program. Clicking the arrow buttons will show the file information for the previous or next file in the Key Loggers list.
- Autosize columns – Sets the Key Loggers list to automatically resize all columns in the table to accommodate the longest string of text in each column. This makes it so that you can see all the text in the table without any information being truncated by the width of the columns and without having to resize the columns manually. This setting is enabled by default.
The Options tab contains the following two items.
- Legend – A visual reference to the color coding used in the Keyloggers list
- Enable Key Loggers detection – Allows you to disable detection of potential Keyloggers.