What is spy software?
Spy software is a generic term for various kinds of programs designed to monitor the user activity on a certain computer. Some programs can send collected data to another machine via e-mail or network connection, other just write it to a hidden file on the same computer. Is there any difference between spy software and computer monitoring software? IBoth these names can be used to describe the same kind of programs. But some people say that the difference lies in the fact that spy software works without detection and computer activity monitoring programs warn the user that his activity is monitored. But the border between these two kinds of software is very vague. Is spy software illegal? No, there is nothing illegal about spy software itself. The vast majority of its developers are law-abiding people who create their programs exclusively for legitimate purposes. There are many situations when monitoring the computer activity is perfectly legal: the parents can use key loggers to prote
