Internet Security

Virtual keyboard.

When working on your computer, instances frequently occur when entering your personal data, or username and password is required. That happens, for example, during account registration on web sites, web shopping or Internet banking.

There is a risk that this personal information is intercepted using hardware keyboard interceptors or keyloggers, which are programs that register keystrokes.

The Virtual Keyboard tool prevents the interception of data entered via the keyboard.

The Virtual Keyboard cannot protect your personal data if the website requiring the entry of such data has been hacked, because in this case the information is obtained directly by the intruders.

Many of the applications classified as spyware have the function of making screenshots which then are transferred to an intruder for further analysis and for stealing the user’s personal data. Virtual Keyboard prevents the personal data being entered from being intercepted with the use of screenshots.

Virtual Keyboard only prevents the interception of privacy data when working with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers.

Before you start using the Virtual Keyboard, please learn its peculiarities:

• Before entering data from the Virtual Keyboard, make sure using the mouse pointer that the appropriate entry field is selected.
• You can press the Virtual Keyboard buttons with the mouse.
• Unlike real keyboards, there is no way to press two keys simultaneously on the Virtual Keyboard. Therefore, to use combinations of keys (e.g., ALT+F4), you have to press the fist key (e.g., ALT), then the next key (e.g., F4), and then press the first key again. Second key press acts like key release on a real keyboard.
• Input language for the Virtual Keyboard is toggled using the CTRL+SHIFT key combination (the SHIFT key should be pressed using the right mouse button) or CTRL+LEFT ALT (the LEFT ALT key should be pressed using the right mouse button) depending upon the specified settings.

You can open the Virtual Keyboard in the following ways:

• from the context menu of the application icon;
• from the main application window;
• from the window of Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox;
• using keyboard shortcut.

To open the Virtual Keyboard from the context menu of the application icon,

select Tools ® Virtual Keyboard from the context menu of the application icon.

To open the Virtual Keyboard from the main application window:

1. Open the main application window and select the Safe Run section in the left part of the window.
2. Select the Virtual Keyboard section in the right part of the window.

To open the Virtual Keyboard from the browser window,

click the  Virtual Keyboard button in the toolbar of Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.

To open the Virtual Keyboard using computer keyboard,

press the CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+P shortcut.