where can I download a program that will let me know if someone is spying on me?
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You can't, as there is no such program. At least for some kinds of spying. \n\nLet's look at the issue. \n\n1) Someone spying on you could have installed some software on your machine (a virus or some spyware or something similar), and installing a good anti-virus program (AVG and Avast are both freely downloadable as is Spy-Bot and Ad-Aware -- all for Windows). They require a little, not much, configuration to work properly. If you keep them updated and run them regularly, much of that danger can be reduced. \n\n2) Someone wanting to spy on you might be trying to install some kind of virus or whatever on your machine using a loophole, bug, vulnerability, misconfiguration, etc. One way to reduce this risk is to install firewall software on your computer system. Zone Alarm, by Zone Labs, is well respected, and there is a freely downloadable version. But any firewall worth bothering with will require configuration to match your use of the Internet. The basic principle is to block all traffic to and from the Internet except the stuff you actually need to use, and since your use is different than anyone else's the configuration must be adapted to you to provide a reasonable hope of keeping out the bad guys. Note that most firewalls haven't to date, watched outgoing traffic, which allows spyware that somehow managed to get onto your machine to send information to DataTheivesRus.com without your knowledge. Zone Alarm, at least, does so -- or can be configured to do so.\n\n3) Email spam is still another issue. Much of it is simply a waste of time. There are programs which attempt to filter out spam. Some keep a list of addresses from which never to accept email (blacklist programs), some keep a list of addresses from which email will be accepted (whitelist programs), some attempt to learn from your classifications of email what's acceptable and what's not (adaptive filters). But some spam email is dangerous; this is email with malicious executable content (attachments, images, etc), and is only dangerous if executed (ie, opened). If scanned first by an anti-virus program much of the dangerous bit can be safely detected and defanged. But some programs helpfully open everything first; Outlook Express used to do exactly this, and so contributed considerably to the spread of many a virus. The latest versions, which you might or might not have, supposedly doesn't. But even so, it's not possible to automatically identify every sort of maliciously troublesome email content. And, of course, some images are, shall we say, exceptionally 'adult' in their content. not dangerous to your computer, but likely to excite comment from others.\n\n4) Your Internet traffic goes through at least the following computers. Yours, the computer at your ISP (eg, AOL, or Earthlink, or your cable company, or the local telephone company if you have DSL), several others (100's are easily possible) on the way to its destination, and exactly the same on the way back. Everyone of these computers could be spying on you by copying your traffic for later analysis. In fact, this is essentially what NSA is doing in its surveillance program that President Bush authorized some years ago without requiring permission from a court. You can't stop that kind of spying, in fact you can't even know it's going on and so no program could possibly stop it. \n\nThe only possible thing to do if you are seriously concerned is to encrypt your transmissions so that even when intercepted, it will be meaningless to the eavesdropper. PGP (or GPG, its open source alternative) is excellent when properly used. And, of course, your incoming traffic should also be encrypted. Additionally, it will be useful to conceal the destinations of anything you send (and anyone or anything that sends to you should do the same). This requires use of an anonymous re-mailer (at least for email traffic) and a Web anonymizer service for most types of Web traf
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try adaware se from cnet.com its free and works well for me. also spybot search and destroy at same .com
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I use Spybot go to www.safer-networking.org/en
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u can use pc security software \nwhich can be download from the \nwww.download.com\nand key word is pc security.
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yes. There are programs that closely track every action a computer takes, what action that is, and the details of the action. IF they have this program installed, they will know you are chatting and know what you're chatting about. The chance of them having the program, though, are very slim.
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download shareaza, it's spy ware free and comes with no crap and bundled software.
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http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Buddy-Spy-Download-17167.html
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http://www.ardamax.com/info_akll.html seems this one is for free and they have a full version(one must pay)\nhttp://www.padring.com/soft/Utilities/Security/SpYOuTSiDe.html\ng luck! and do not go into any hackers page they may contain virus and the programs may have backdoors,trojans adware/spyware...
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If you're running Windows (2000 or XP) try Windows Defender Beta.  It's the best out there and it's TOTALLY FREE!!\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
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Get a free anti-spyware like SpyBot or Spyware Terminator and scan your computer:\nSpyware Terminator: http://www.spywareterminator.com/\nSpyBot Search and Destroy: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/spy...
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Go to download.com and download a program name "Golden eye". it is a personal spywere. activate it. if u need any help with it pliz contact me at tito90057@yahoo.com
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what you have is ad-ware, not spy-ware.  spy-ware scanners won't work.\n\nget adaware by lavasoft (www.lavasoft.com)  it's free for home use.
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Spybot is very good, and free.\nhttp://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
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try this free software\nhttp://www.secrethider.com/
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Use http://www.anonymizer.com/ on up left there is Free web surfing option enabled.
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Possible spyware on you're computer?
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go to internet tools and check your privacy and security settings