Can spy software be used for any legitimate purposes?
Yes, sure. Here are just a few examples of perfectly legal uses of computer activity monitoring tools. You can: • Monitor your children’s online activity to make sure they don’t visit pornographic Web sites or don’t make any dubious acquaintances. • Ensure no one is accessing your personal files while you are away from the computer. • Keep track of the inexperienced users’ activity to quickly locate the problem if they damage any system files. • Monitor your employees’ computer activity to make sure they are really working and don’t do anything that may be a source of legal problems for you. • Find out if someone uses your computer while you are away. What kinds of computer activity can spy software monitor? Virtually any. It can record keystrokes, make series of screenshots, record sounds, keep track of visited Web sites and launched programs, make copies of sent and received emails, monitor which movie and sound files are played on the system, keep track of the files that are opened
