Commercial Spyware

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Is there anything that will detect this sort of thing?

I'm thinking of either purchased commercial spyware/snoopware being used
inappropriately or a freebie that could have been downloaded that allows
undetected remote viewing or screen shots to be taken.

Paranoia maybe, but your advice would be appreciated.

Regards.
Bill.
 
Bill said:
Is there anything that will detect this sort of thing?

I'm thinking of either purchased commercial spyware/snoopware being
used inappropriately or a freebie that could have been downloaded
that allows undetected remote viewing or screen shots to be taken.

Paranoia maybe, but your advice would be appreciated.

Regards.
Bill.
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Bill:

There are several apps out there to do this. See the alt.privacy.spyware NG
as this NG is more for AV's. For starters, 2 common and FREE apps are
Ad-aware SE http://www.lavasoft.com/ and Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html .

Steve
 
Bill said:
Is there anything that will detect this sort of thing?

I'm thinking of either purchased commercial spyware/snoopware being used
inappropriately or a freebie that could have been downloaded that allows
undetected remote viewing or screen shots to be taken.

Paranoia maybe, but your advice would be appreciated.

Regards.
Bill.
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See:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
 
Steve said:
Bill:

There are several apps out there to do this. See the alt.privacy.spyware NG
as this NG is more for AV's. For starters, 2 common and FREE apps are
Ad-aware SE http://www.lavasoft.com/ and Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html .
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These apps are geared more for the kind of spyware that's related to adware. Some AV programs have added support for
alerting to "potentially unwanted programs" and I suggest this is more what the OP was asking about.
 
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