Computer Security: Internet Spy Software
We do not live in a perfect world. Whether we want to believe it or not, spouses cheat, employees steal, and children disobey when their parents are not looking. There may not be a way (yet) to monitor the thoughts that go on in any one persons head, but there are at least software applications that allow us to monitor the online activity of people we suspect are up to no good.
Internet spy software allows its user to monitor internet activity on one computer from any other computer connected to the Internet. Internet spy software can show a computer owner what is happening on his or her own computer in real time. It will even allow the computer owner to break in and control the computer remotely to prevent further damage from being done.
Watch from Afar
The newest internet spy software applications can also work in conjunction with a computers web cam. The software will take periodic snapshots with the web cam and store those images for the computer owner to look over at a later date. Some applications will even allow the computer owner to watch activity through his or her web cam in real time just as he or she can watch activity occurring on the computers desktop.
Big companies have been using spy software for years. The decreasing price of new technologies has made spy software an option for individuals now as well. No one likes thinking that a loved one or an employee is doing something untoward behind ones back; but at least with spy software the offenders can be caught misbehaving red-handed.