Is it OK to use a PC or laptop with hardcore spyware for gaming only?
No. While avoiding using a PC or laptop for nothing but gaming reduces the odds of it being used to acquire personal or financial data about you, it is much more difficult to keep all personal data off such systems over long periods. For example, if other systems in a home go down, the temptation to use an infected system for “just a while” can be overpowering if the hardcore spyware does not cause any obvious symptoms. Finally, while using a system for gaming only does reduce the odds that hardcore spyware can collect information on you form your keyboard, it does not prevent hardcore spyware from hijacking other increasingly common types of input devices such as microphones and video cameras. While the high bandwidth of audio and video logging makes such inputs devices less attractive than keylogging to most categories of malicious remote users, the internal design of most operating system makes audio and video about as easy to capture — if not easier — than keyboard inputs. In add
