MKey Logger allows you to silently monitor a computer user's keystrokes. MKey Logger also takes screenshots of the visible display (what is shown on the monitor), to give you a more comprehensive overview of the windows being monitored. The included documentation explains how to configure MKey Logger. You can change how often screenshots are taken, the compression of the screenshot images, change the task manager display name (defaults to Regsvc32), and other options. The trial version installs Start Menu items, and has a ten second nag screen when MKey Logger is launched. The full version of MKey Logger will not install any Start Menu items.
Editor's review of MKey Logger This simple keylogger also saves screenshots, but it is difficult to stop. MKey Logger has no interface; instead, all settings are configured in a text file. Load this application properly and you'll have no idea it exists. It hides itself as a Windows Regsvc32.exe file. Most users wouldn't suspect the Regsvc32.dll file is actually a log of all keystrokes and button pushes. Installation is simple, but the documentation confusingly states that the program launches itself. Users must execute the program file to start logging keys. Once enabled, MKey Logger records all key and button presses and saves a screenshot every five seconds. You can easily change the screenshot interval and log file name and folder in MKey Logger's text-based configuration file. What doesn't work is the complicated disable-key combination. Pressing Ctrl-F5-F7-Space never worked for our testers. We had to kill the program by stopping the Regsvc32 process in Task Manager. Also, the screenshots aren't encrypted and an inquisitive user might notice the multiple JPEG files filling up the hard drive. The 15-day demo logs files for a mere five minutes before automatically disabling logging. Still, privacy-minded administrators will appreciate the simplicity of this keylogger and will look past its few quirks.