Can an On Screen Keyboard Bypass Keyloggers?

An on-screen keyboard can protect you from hardware-based keyloggers. It may even prevent some classes of software keyloggers from intercepting your keystrokes. Unfortunately, since an on-screen keyboard is indistinguishable from a real keyboard to the program into which you are typing, there remain keylogging techniques an on-screen keyboard will not protect you from. Remember, a keylogger is just one specific type of malware, and malware can do anything once it’s on your machine.

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