. Check the for the model of scanner you are about to connect to your Mac. to automatically install third-party scanner / printer software updates. Connect a USB scanner to automatically create the scanner / print queue. You can share your USB connected scanner with other Macs on your home network.
You can scan from various applications:. Image Capture.
Keyloggers are legal when used according to the law for monitoring your children, however, such tools can be abused for sinister use such as stealing Hotmail and Gmail password, not to mention stealing credit card information. I've created a simple Mac app that gives you statistics on your working behavior over time. For example, your average words per minute, what language you are typing in.
Preview. Print & Fax preferences in System Preferences.
Scanner / Printer queue. Some third-party applications Important: If your scanner driver supports control panel functions in OS X, pressing a scan button on your device may not begin the scanning process. Use one of the above applications to control the scanner.
See below for more details about these features. Simply connect your multi-function printer or scanner via a USB cable. If you multi-function printer uses a Ethernet or wireless network, make sure it is configured to use the same local network as your Mac.
Next, choose Apple () System Preferences and then choose View Print & Scan. Click the + (plus) icon below the Printers pane on the left and select the printer you would like to add. After you connect to your scanner, Software Update to check for the latest third-party printer / scanner software and updates.
Note: Refrain from installing the software that came with your scanner as it may be out of date. OS X and contain the most recent versions of scanner software. You will see future updates when they are made available via Software Update. In the 'simplified' scanner interface, follow these steps:.
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Place the item(s) you would like to scan on the scanner bed. Open Image Capture by clicking Launchpad in the Dock and typing Image Capture in the search field. OS X Mountain Lion: If your scanner has a document feeder, you can check 'Use Document Feeder' to scan via the feeder instead of the flatbed. OS X Lion and earlier: If your scanner supports different modes, you will see a 'Mode:' pop-up menu in Image Capture. Modes may include Flatbed, Transparency Positive, Transparency Negative, and more.
OS X Mountain Lion: By default, Image Capture will scan to the system's default page size such as 'US Letter', and scan the whole page. Click for other options such as 'Detect Enclosing Box' or 'Detect Separate Items'. OS X Lion and earlier: Choose 'Detect Separate Items' from the 'Auto selection' pop-up menu to have scanned objects automatically selected and straightened. Each item will also be stored in a separate file. Tip: Objects with high contrast edging will increase the accuracy of auto-selection. 'Detect Enclosing Box' from the 'Auto selection' pop-up menu to include all the items on the scanner bed in one image. Choose where to save the scanned images from the 'Scan To:' pop-up menu:.
A folder of your choosing. A number of folders are already pre-configured or choose 'Other' to select the folder you want.
An application such as iPhoto, Aperture, or Preview. Mail application, to have each of your scanned images put into its own email message. Click 'Scan' to scan. Note: The scanned items will become JPEG images incrementally named: scan1.jpeg, scan2.jpeg, and so forth.
Click 'Show Details' if you want to enter a detailed scan mode with more advanced options. In the 'Details' scanner interface you can manually select the following options:. If your scanner supports different modes, you will see a 'Mode:' pop-up menu.
Modes can include: Flatbed, Transparency Positive, Transparency Negative, and so forth. The 'Kind:' pop-up menu lets you select the kind of scan you would like. Choose 'Color' to scan an object in color. Choose 'Black & White' to scan in an object in Grayscale (256 or Thousands of grays). Choose 'Text' to scan in text documents. The 'Resolution:' pop-up menu lets you select the dpi (dots per inch) of your scanned imaged.
Typically, 300 dpi is all that you need. Too high of a resolution can result in. Select the Use Custom Size checkbox to enable the 'Size:' fields (if it's not already selected) to specify the width and height you want to scan. Choose pixels, inches or cm (centimeters). In the 'Rotation Angle:' field, you can set the number of degrees of clockwise rotation for your scanned image. Choose one of the following from the 'Auto selection' pop-up menu:.
'Detect Separate Items' to automatically select and straighten the objects you are scanning. Tip: High contrast object edging will increase the accuracy of auto-selection. 'Detect Enclosing Box' to include all the items on the scanner bed in one image. Use the 'Scan To:' pop-up menu to select your 'Scan To:' destination. Your destinations can include:.
A folder of your choosing. A number of folders are already pre-configured or choose 'Other' to select the folder you want. An application such as iPhoto, Aperture, or Preview. Mail application, to have each of your scanned images put into its own email message.
The 'Name:' field lets you enter the name of your scanned image or images. For multiple scans, the name entered will be a part of incrementally named scans. For example, scan1.jpeg, scan2.jpeg, and so forth. 'Format:' – Choose the image format of your scan: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, JPEG 2000, or PDF. 'Image Correction:' – If you select 'Manual', you have the following options with a histogram of the scan selection you click on. The following options are available when the 'Kind:' pop-up is set to 'Color.' .
'Brightness:'. 'Tint:'. 'Temperature:'. 'Saturation:' Tip: click 'Restore Defaults' to reset settings. After Image correction, you will see a number of scanner-specific options that your particular scanner model supports.
If you want to select specific areas to scan (or if you unchecked 'Detect Separate Items'), follow these steps. Note: The 'Scan' button is dimmed until a scan area is selected. Deselect all currently selected scan areas by clicking in an empty area that is not yet selected (selected areas are outlined by a border that has a line of dashes).
To specify the scanning area, click and drag to cover the area you want to scan. To resize a selection area, click within the border of the selected area.
Gray dots appear on the border. When your cursor hovers over a handle, it will turn red. Click and drag the red handle to resize the scan area. Tip: You can Shift-click another area to select more than one. If you want to delete the selection, press Delete. If you want to rotate the selection, click the rotation handle just at the end of the line that starts in the center of the selection. When your cursor is near this handle, it turns red and a transparent image of a person will appear within the area.
Click the red handle and adjust the rotation to your liking. Note: There may be a border handle to resize your selection near this handle; make sure you click on the correct handle. To create a new selection area, simply click and drag in an area that is not part of a selection. Information about products not manufactured by Apple, or independent websites not controlled or tested by Apple, is provided without recommendation or endorsement. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of third-party websites or products. Apple makes no representations regarding third-party website accuracy or reliability. Risks are inherent in the use of the Internet.
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Keyloggers: What they Are and How to Defend Yourself A keylogger is a program that records everything that you type on a keyboard. All of your keystrokes are stored, in order, in a log file. Hence the name, 'key logger.' The log file is intended to be read by a third party that is typically unknown, remote and malicious. Keyloggers do have legitimate uses, such as troubleshooting, training, analyzing employee productivity, and law enforcement surveillance. But keyloggers are most often used illegally to spy on people.
A report by Trustwave security researchers revealed that malware known as 'Pony' was responsible for the, many of them for popular sites such as Facebook, Gmail, LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo. Keyloggers are especially useful for stealing usernames and passwords, bank and credit card numbers, and other sorts of personal information that people type every day. Even data transmitted over an encrypted Internet connection is vulnerable to keylogging, because a keylogger records keystrokes before they are encrypted for transmission. See my related article if you're thinking about using one to spy on someone, as there are some serious ethical and legal concerns. Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, keyloggers are not limited to spying on your web browsing activity.
Anything you type, in any program, online or offline, can be captured by a keylogger. So if you've been told to type your password into Notepad, then copy & paste it to a web form, that's bad advice. Software keyloggers are often distributed in Trojan, virus, and other malware packages. These keyloggers can operate at the kernel level, making them virtually invisible to the operating system. Others use 'hooks' into the operating system's keyboard API to monitor and record keystrokes. Keyloggers generally attempt to transmit their log files secretly back to their masters, either via email or FTP. Detect, Defeat and Defend Against Keyloggers A number of techniques can be used to defeat keyloggers, but no one technique is effective against all types of keyloggers.
A keylogger can be housed in a hardware device that plugs into the keyboard port on your computer. Some hardware keyloggers are hidden inside of keyboards themselves. Hardware keyloggers cannot be detected by software, but they have the drawback of requiring physical access to a computer. If you suspect a hardware keylogger is present on your system, inspecting the keyboard's connection to the computer, or replacing the keyboard will solve the problem. Form-filling software such as Roboform stores passwords, credit card info, and other information in a database, then enters it into Web forms as needed. This eliminates the user's need to type such data on the keyboard, and can prevent keyloggers from recording it.
However, there are other forms of spyware which can intercept data posted to forms by form-fillers. (See for links to password manager software, and tips on creating secure passwords.) Speech-to-text software or virtual keyboards can eliminate the keyboard connection, too. However, the text has to get to its destination somehow, and that path may be vulnerable to clever keystroke loggers. An antikeylogger program attempts to detect and/or disable keylogging programs.
Antikeyloggers scan your hard drive for the digital signatures of known keyloggers, and look for low-level software 'hooks' that indicate the presence of a keystroke grabber. Antikeyloggers and keylogger detectors are more effective against keyloggers than general antivirus programs because the latter often don't identify keyloggers as malware; keyloggers do have legitimate purposes, as noted above.
Anti-Keylogging Software Options is an anti-keylogger for Windows that works a bit differently. As the name implies, KeyScrambler scrambles your keystrokes with encryption at the driver level (the first layer between the keyboard and the operating system), then feeds them in decrypted form to the software application. The result is that keyloggers see only the scrambled keystrokes. Three versions are available, Premium ($45), Pro ($30) and Personal (Free). The free version only protects web browsers.
The Pro and Premium versions add protection for other popular software programs. Is an anti-keylogger that claims to protect every application on your computer, not just your web browser. Like KeyScrambler, it uses keystroke-encryption to scramble every keystroke, and protect everything that you type.
It also adds protection from keystroke-stealing malware that attempts to work by grabbing screenshots of what you're typing. Zemana works on Windows XP and higher. A free trial version is available, and the paid version costs $24.46 for a 1-year license. Is another program that will detect and remove keyloggers. Instead of relying on signatures, Keylogger Detector uses behavioral analysis to detect the newest, modified or custom-built keyloggers, which are not yet detectable by antivirus software.
A free 10-day trial version is available, or you can purchase the program fo $19.95. The paid version includes 2 years of technical support, and free upgrades to all future versions of the product. Just be aware that your anti-virus program may flag these programs as malware, but you can safely ignore any such 'false positive' alarm. A final defense against keyloggers is a firewall that detects outbound traffic.
A firewall can alert the user to unauthorized attempts to transmit data to the Internet, which could indicate a keylogger is trying to 'phone home' with its log file. I have mixed feelings about the usefulness of outbound firewalls. If you decide it's for you, check out my list of software. Have you been bitten by a keylogger? Do you have something to say about dealing with keyloggers?
Post your comment or question. Bob another great article! I have used Key Scrambler for quite a few years now, not really sure exactly how many. I am using it per an earlier article of yours and it was one that you highlighted. I have never had an issue with my Anti-Virus protection and Key Scrambler. They have both respected each other's programs.
Now, mind you - My Key Scrambler has always been the FREE version. I know it only works on the Browsers but I think it is good enough for me.
There is a Premium and Pro Key Scramblers. I am not interested in purchasing either one. The price is too high, in my book and both of them are only an annual subscription. I prefer a Lifetime payment on my Premium and Pro purchases - Please, that is only my opinion on this issue. I feel comfortable using the Key Scrambler Free version.
It has served me well, all these years. Posted by: bob rice 03 Jul 2017. Thank you for another great coverage of an important topic. I am wondering if your feeling(s) regarding in/out bound firewalls usage has changed since you wrote the linked article.
There should be an 'honorable mention' for FireFox' PasswordManager (w/a strong Master Password). Especially since the keylogger-desired credentials are mainly those that most people use within their browsers. Chrome and IE/Edge browsers also do provide similar locally stored credential security with minimal worry about keyloggers. Posted by: Paulus 03 Jul 2017. I have a pretty good password database called Keypass 2.
I've been using it for a few years now and it will easily generate any random password (except what my Army retired pay wants). I do have to log in with a master password though. So my thought is that I stay disconnected from the internet to open it and then before connecting I could clear my temp files or cache or something? Never tried but maybe it would work. EDITOR'S NOTE: A keylogger doesn't need an Internet connection to capture keystrokes.
It might well save them in a file, then transmit when the connection is available. Posted by: Egbok 04 Jul 2017. @Chuck; thank you for your service to keep my pass safe;) No need to disconnect from internet. 'This might be a stupid question, will using the on screen keyboard keep a key logger from recording the key strokes?' Yes and no: it depends. Some on-screen keyboards are merely accessibility aids that simulate keystrokes and are absolutely useless against software keyloggers (although, presumably, they'd work against hardware keyloggers); others such as Neo's SafeKeys (and Oxynger KeyShield (are specifically designed to thwart (software) keyloggers. Neo's and Oxynger are free.
Posted by: Phillip Reed 07 Jul 2017. I had an unfortunate experience. Someone used a key logger on the lobby computer in the Holiday Inn I was staying in one weekend. A couple days after arriving home, a friend of mine sent me the email the hacker sent to all in my address book asking him to send money to me in England, that I had used a cab and accidentally left my wallet in the cab, not to be recovered. Thus, I'm very careful in using common computer networks, especially those that don't require a password and especially those in separate business center rooms where no employee monitors.
And I never log into a sensitive account unless the account requires TFA and it's over my WindScribe VPN. Posted by: Rocky 09 Jul 2017. Thankyou Bob, A very interesting article, about something to really watch our for. I'll try each of the suggested anti-keylogger detection free trial programs and see if I've been infected. Hopefully with my arsenal of anti virus/spyware programs (Avast Free, Super Anti Spyware, Malwarebytes, Adware Cleaner, CCleaner, all of which I use each time after logging-off the internet, unplugging my cable internet modem when doing the cleaning scans. Haven't picked up anything drastic all these times, mainly only detect Tracking Cookies galore, especially after having played 'Just Words' on the MSN Free Games website.
Is the Microsoft free games site rife with Tracking Cookies??? Most other times, my regular daily cleaning scans hardly detect anything. I hope with my practice, I'm able to prevent any keyloggers from installing themselves onto either of my computers. Look forward to more of your interesting articles. May you have a nice day. Posted by: scott 12 Jul 2017.
Bob, I just came across this article and I compliment you on a job well done in explaining keyloggers and the associated risks and such. I would like to make you aware of another company that developed products for protecting against keyloggers on Mac and Windows computers as well as on Apple and Android mobile devices. The company is Strikeforce Technologies and their products are GuardedID and MobileTrust. Mobile devices are more vulnerable today and MobileTrust is a great solution.
Regarding password managers, if your device is infected, then your master password or keys to the kingdom are at risk. Strikeforce's products will protect your password manager! Keep the articles coming as it is important to educate people on keyloggers! Posted by: rc primak 18 Jul 2017. While these suggestions are good for a pure keylogger attack, very few incidents involve just a keylogger. Modern malware is capable of doing screen grabs and leveraging Windows Step Recorder (or other screen recording methods). Everything entered, by no matter what means will show up on screen and can be captured by these modern Trojans.
Just something more to keep us up at night. Oh, and as to the comment about the public computer - DO NOT USE public computers.
Bring your won device and connect using your own paid VPN service. That's the best practice when traveling. Don't even use the hotel room TV as a monitor. And do not trust hotel Ethernet Plugs. Posted by: rc primak 18 Jul 2017. Name:.
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