Mouse Only Keyboard

Everyone’s spying on everyone, or at least trying. Methods can be pretty cunning, ingenious, or plain dumb and straightforward on both sides, the defender and the attacker. Regardless of the side you’re on, files on your computer or some accounts you have need protection, and you can get a bit more with applications like Mouse Only Keyboard.

Since this is an application meant to enhance security, portability comes as a major advantage, because it doesn’t take you through a setup process, thus keeping your computer clean of any traces. You can leave it stored on an USB Flash drive to use on the go or only when you need it.

One thing you need to keep in mind before running it is make sure there’s nothing important in your clipboard because it’s going to be discarded. It’s nothing personal, but the application is meant to block or prevent keyloggers from recording buttons you press, and just wants to make sure everything goes well.

The main window is pretty compact, but doesn’t pose any accommodation problems whatsoever. Multiple columns are used to store different upper and lower case characters, numbers, as well as symbols. There’s also a text field that displays everything you write, and the controls you need to complete the operation.

The application wants to do this by giving you the chance to write down passwords, or any other text, by selecting characters from the given list simply by clicking them. However, if something’s monitoring the clipboard then all effort is in vain, because you still need to copy and paste in in the target field.

You find most characters a password can contain. What’s more, the field is masked by default so nobody in your proximity can see. If the list of characters is not enough, the application lets you fill a column with custom ones.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Mouse Only Keyboard comes with good intentions but it can leave you scratching your head if you really thing of the security strength it provides. It acts like a virtual keyboard which writes only in a single field, which means you still have to make use of system settings to place it in the requirement field.