The Complete Guide To Spotting Computer Spies & Recording Devices (Page 1 of 3)
Can you be absolutely sure, that your activity isn’t being monitored and recorded right now, while you’re reading this?
The problem with many people is, because they’re alone in a room with their computer, they think that no body can be watching.
If only they knew how easy it is to plant a computer recording device or software recording program onto a computer, they wouldn’t feel so safe.
Whether you’re a total computer newbie or a seasoned Internet veteran, everyone needs to know how to protect their privacy using the right anti spyware tools for the job.
In this article, I will show you how to easily spot a computer recording device or detect spy software using specific anti spyware tools.
It’s really quite simple if you know what FREE anti spyware tools to use.
Computer monitoring devices come in two main categories, Hardware Key loggers & Spyware Software:
In this article I will address each of these categories and give you the best anti spyware solutions available, to spot and prevent them from spying on you
Hardware Key Loggers:
This type of Key Logger requires that the perpetrator have physical access to your computer.
Key Loggers can easily be installed in less than 5 seconds.
It doesn’t matter if you use your computer at home or at work. If anyone has access to your computer they can install one of these devices without knowing a thing about computers.
If you want to see pictures and read up on this type of product, here is the URL for probably the most well known hardware Key Logger on the Internet:
How To Get Quality Links To Increase Your Website Traffic
How To Build Your List, Get Quality Links and Increase Your Website Ranking Easily
As you already know getting traffic is one or the most difficult task you can encounter as an Internet marketer. Traffic has to be targeted in order to provide building an opt-in list of future customers that will generate the profits that you will need for growing your business.
Pay-per Click (PPC) Campaigns
While There are several ways to get that traffic the most effective and fast way to do this is Pay-per-Click advertising, this is a method that can be used for building your opt-in list real fast. Google Ad Words and Overture are probably the best known of the PPC services. This form of advertisement is not recommended for everyone. Sometimes it can be very time consuming and very, very expensive.
Blogs and Forums
Blogs and Forums are quickly becoming one of the most popular and easiest ways for anyone to publish content to the web and get free traffic. Blogs have become quite the hot topic over the last year. They allow users to easily create their own websites, without knowing any html coding. The search engines love them since blogs are indexed by the search engines quickly better than regular websites. You can link your website to the blog and get the free traffic. While this method is not fully guaranteed it has results. You will need lots of good content to keep the traffic coming to your website and to your blog. But the catch is that it will require more than one blog to get it accomplished and can become time consuming.
When posting to forums you’ll need a lot of time in your hands. Forum wrangling is tedious and time consuming also. You will need to find forums that have good topics in which you will post and discuss with other participants. Both methods required that you post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other forums, blogs, articles and websites in your posts. These type of traffic doesn’t happen quickly, this is something you must do continuously every day to build up.
Article Writing
Article writing is another way of getting free traffic. Is probably the favorite way of many marketers in generating traffic for their website. Simply by writing and submitting the articles to article directories. The more articles you write and submit to directories the more traffic and back links you will build for your website. While article submission isn’t anything astonishing new to the world of Search Engine Optimization, many people still don’t do it… and for good reason. It’s time consuming and takes so incredibly long time to do this manually.
Article Submissions
There are software programs that will submit your articles to hundreds of directories with a few keystrokes. One such program is Article Submitter. The software cost nothing at the time of this writing. With the software you can quickly and easily submit your website to hundreds of article directories with a few mouse clicks. This free software can help get the targeted traffic that you need, plus will help get your website listed on the top search engine rankings in all the major search engines quickly. Visit this blog and read the blog post “How To Get Free Targeted Traffic Using Articles” or just click on the link: (http://blogtipsezine.wordpress.com .)
I can’t think of an easier way to get links. Of course, if you’re going to get links this quickly, it’s important to submit different variations of your articles, to make things look more natural to the search engines.
Is My PC Vulnerable on the Internet? (Page 1 of 2)
Think about this: Is a simple antivirus application enough to protect your PC against all threats?
No longer are viruses the only threat on the internet. In recent years other threats have evolved which include spyware, adware, hacking, identity theft, information theft, pop-ups and the loss of information.
Lets begin with the basics. We all need to protect our PC in the same way we protect our home, car and bank account. We wouldnt give a stranger the keys to our car, home or bank account now would we. If you dont protect your PC it is like giving the keys to a stranger and letting him/her have full access to your PC. Once the stranger has the keys they can snoop around and take whatever they want. I know, your thinking how can they do this, my computer is in my house and my doors are locked. Well, today you can be anywhere in the world and access someones computer via the internet. Since the introduction of cable modems and DSL everyones PC is online all the time and accessible.
Why do I need to protect my PC, I dont keep any important information on it? Ask yourself a couple of questions.
1. Do I bank online? 2. Do I shop online? 3. Do I create documents, spreadsheets? 4. Do I let other people use my PC? 5. Do I download music, files onto my PC?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then your PC is vulnerable. If you bank online then you are sending personal confidential information to your bank via the Internet. For Example: Lets say you are infected with spyware and you are typing in your account number plus password. A spyware installation can record key strokes and then send them off to a site on the internet. Now the person who setup the site has your account number and password to your bank. Here is one more example, if you answered yes to I let other people use my pc, here is what happens. The other person decides that they like this new cool piece of software. They download and double click on the exe, msi or whatever installs the software. The adware, spyware or virus installs. Now the infection is installed and now it can start stealing confidential information or cause havoc on your PC. You get onto the PC as always, since you dont know this has happened and start doing what you always do, type documents, go to chat rooms, do your banking online, reconcile your banking with quicken and all this time your confidential information is stolen and you are completely unaware that this occurred.
The million dollar question, what do I do? Well, you can follow this approach. 1. Install a Spyware application and install and configure correctly. If you already have spyware application installed make sure it is up to date and make sure that is configured properly. 2. Install an Adware application and install and configure properly. If you already have adware application installed make sure it is up to date and make sure that is configured properly. 3. Install an AntiVirus application and install and configure properly. If you already have antivirus application installed make sure it is up to date and make sure that is configured properly. 4. Install backup software, why because if something does get through your defenses or delete something by accident you always have a way of retrieving the information. You should try to backup your system at least every other day. 5. Install Encryption software. This software will encrypt files like word docs, spreadsheets, banking file on quicken. This way if someone does steal your information they will not be able to read it. 6. Install a Firewall. The Firewall can either be software or hardware based. I would install both especially if you bring your laptop with you and connect to the internet at different locations. The Firewall will block hackers trying to scan your system while you are on the Internet.