IS YOUR PC SPYING ON YOU???
PC SNOOPWARE/SPYWARE - PC MONITORING SOFTWARE OVERVIEW
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“Snoopware”, the popular term for PC MONITORING and SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS, is fast becoming a household word. PC Spy Software, once the tool of governments and large companies, are now available to the consumer. Most of these programs are priced well under $50.00, and many are available online for free, or as shareware.
The two fastest growing user groups for these programs are employers and, not surprisingly, suspicious spouses. According to press releases by Spectresoft, (arguably the industry leader in the development and sales of consumer use spyware) suspecting spouses have accounted for much of the company’s recent growth. The use of these “snoopwares” are also proliferating among families, friends, roommates, jealous lovers and overzealous coworkers. One case which garnered much attention involved parents who surreptitiously installed monitoring software on their adult daughter’s computer. Once installed the software was able to capture screen shots of all her computer activities. The program then forwarded the captured information to her parents’ e mail address, all without her knowledge, and without leaving a trace on her computer.
Spectresoft is but one of dozens of companies who package software capable of invading your privacy. Monitoring (Spy) Software takes many forms. There are keystroke loggers, web traffic monitoring systems. Programs which monitor the use and access of files. E mail surveillance programs, chat room recording software and, most ominously, screen capture devices.
HOW SCREEN CAPTURE DEVICES WORK:
Monitoring programs which utilize screen capture are the most effective type of Spyware. Their strength is omniscience. The entity who wants to spy on you only needs access to your computer once. From that point forward the snoopware sees, records and transmits everything.
Here’s how it works. Let’s say your spouse suspects that the time you spend online is not spent doing research. Or a zealous coworker takes a competitive interest in the data on your workplace PC. He or she downloads some free spyware, installs it on your computer and then waits.
Because Spyware is designed to be stealthy you won’t be able to see the software . But the software will see you. Screen shots will be captured, compressed, stored, and forwarded for review to whatever e mail account the user has chosen. Everything you do on your computer can be monitored in fifteen second intervals. Your credit card information, your passwords, web sites visited, programs and files accessed, e mails, financial information, work product information. WHATEVER YOU DO will be captured in fifteen-second intervals and forwarded via e mail or saved on your own computer for later review WITHOUT YOU EVER KNOWING.
Without a trace, your own computer is silently logging everything you do and forwarding it to someone else via e mail. BUT DON’T LOOK IN YOUR OUTGOING E MAIL because spyware doesn’t leave an e mail record. DON’T BOTHER TRYING TO FIND THE PROGRAM ON YOUR COMPUTER because spyware doesn’t show up in the programs menu or in your system tray. PC SPYWARE PROGRAMS ARE VIRTUALLY PERFECT FOR THEIR INTENDED USE which is the surreptitious gathering of information and concealing that means by which the information is gathered.
But we’re smarter than the people who created spyware.
SPYDETECT 2.0—Developed by EXIGENT WEB SERVICES, provides a comprehensive solution to your PC privacy needs. SPYDETECT 2.0 programmatically searches your computer’s drives to detect file types known to be associated with the most popular spyware. Once a file is located the user is then given the opportunity to disable the program. Or if the user so desires, to leave the program in place. For this SPYDETECT offers a number of free SURVEILLANCE COUNTERMEASURES information documents and resources
http://www.spydetect.com
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