Because KeyScrambler gives you a reliable layer of information security that few other security programs offer. With cyber criminals swarming the Internet and with keyloggers and keylogging malware becoming a major means to stealing private information, you want to have KeyScrambler installed on your computer so all your keystrokes are encrypted and protected from possible keylogging malware intrusion.

Since its initial release in August 2006, KeyScrambler has been tested by numerous users, bloggers and security experts in the world. If you're interested, you could read the KeyScrambler reviews on our website or on other major download sites. Read the reviews & endorsements

If you'd like to do a test yourself, you could download any number of commercial keyloggers from sites such as CNet's Download.com (most of these have a free trial period). You could also download Anti-Keylogger Tester, which is free at http://www.snapfiles.com/get/antikeyloggertester.html.

Yes and absolutely. KeyScrambler is designed to strengthen your anti-spyware, anti-virus software where it is weak, that is, in dealing with new, unrecognized viruses and worms. All too often a new virus or worm could escape detection, which is why for years keyloggers and keylogging malware have been found to be the major cause for identity theft and data breaches. Since KeyScrambler encrypts everything you type on your keyboard realtime and decrypts it in the destination app, KeyScrambler renders your info indecipherable, and therefore safe, to keyloggers, old or new. Many anti-virus, anti-spyware programs claim to defeat keylogging malware, but the way they work, they cannot do what KeyScrambler can for you. Learn more about KeyScrambler | Learn more about security trends

Yes. Because your master password still needs to be protected. Also when you have to enter new information, you need KeyScrambler.

Yes, it is normal. On a 64-bit system KeyScrambler runs as both a 32-bit and a 64-bit process to ensure that all the supported programs are protected. Because there's a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit programs running, KeyScrambler runs in both modes simultaneously to protect both types of programs.

Yes. Here is why: If malware with keylogging capability had wormed into your computer, it would sit there trying to capture all you keystrokes, not just those in your browser. You could lose crucial info whether you're online or not. That's why you need KeyScrambler Professional or Premium, to protect your keystroke data in those information-sensitive programs that you use often.

There are a number of reasons for the change:

First, in order to expand the number of supported browsers from 3 to 29, we had to move away from the add-on model. It would be impractical to produce an add-on for each different browser, and if we did, it would greatly increase the size of the download. More importantly, many of the browsers we now support do not have an add-on or extension system.

Secondly, some popular browser, such as Firefox, IE, and Chrome, are now putting limits on when add-ons can run. IE does not run add-ons in its "InPrivate" mode by default, and the same is true of Chrome in its "Incognito" mode. Even Firefox has at times considered disabling add-ons to improve the its own performance and security. So it is becoming more difficult for an add-on to provide the kind of always-on protection that KeyScrambler strives to give to our users.

Thirdly, Firefox's new "frequent release" schedule has been problematic. In the past year or so, Firefox moved from having a major release once every 6 months or more to once every 6 weeks. Because the Firefox add-ons system was not well adapted to this new schedule, Firefox would frequently disable the KeyScrambler add-on, even though KeyScrambler is perfectly capable of supporting the new version without any changes. Starting with 3.0, KeyScrambler Personal will support any new versions of Firefox without requiring an update, which will make the experience much smoother for Firefox users.

Finally, with the new model, it will be much easier for us to add support for more browsers in the future.

For all these reasons, we believe that in the long run it is best for KeyScrambler to be a standalone program rather than a browser add-on.

Only very slightly. The way KeyScrambler is designed, the standalone portion of the program ("KeyScrambler.exe") is basically inactive when KeyScrambler isn't in use. It doesn't use any CPU when idle and uses less than 5MB of RAM. The standalone's main purpose is to give users a way to control KeyScrambler, and very little resource is needed for that. Additionally, we've structured KeyScrambler so that there's a lot of sharing between the standalone program and the decryption module that attaches to the protected applications. The actual net increase in RAM usage is even less than the 4 to 5MB indicated in Task Manager.