I was surfing MSN and found this little ditty about how Spies can get info from your computer just from the blinking lights and the glow from your monitor. Sounded odd to me, then I read it.
Here's the link:
http://msnbc.com/news/720937.asp#BODY

Let me know what ya'all think.

This is weird!

I guess I'm glad I have nothing to hide! LOL!

Shhh,
Whisper

Saw it yesterday. Weird.

Seems like it's not as much of a problem for home users as for those large businesses ...

We don't have any flashing red lights - our lights are all green ...

'shana

I just thought it was odd. But in an odd way it could make sense. It seems that there are all kinds of ways to get information if your smart (and criminal) enough to want it. Sad that some people are like that.

There are some really good articles there. Some interesting stuff. Be sure to read some if you can.

I agree with shana - more for big business. But as ordinary users you probably need to be mindful of cookies that spy on you and send your info to the cookie owners who then target you for marketing etc.

See www.lavasoftusa.com and infd out if you're a victim of spyware. We downloaded the Ad-aware software a while ago and were amazed how many little spies we had in the computer LOL!!!!!!!!!!

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fayee

You little ripper! Thanks for that - I downloaded and ran it and found quite a few of the little jerks on there. Well they got what THEY deserved, snicker

Thank you for this - made very interesting reading!

I got rid of 154 of the dern little buggies! Thanks Fayee, and thanks Wike!!!

Shhh,
Whisper

Bit of a shock isn't it when you see how many little pests are in there!!!!!!!

We do it regularly now as part of the virus protection, defragging and all that stuff. Worse than flipping housework ....... <wink>

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fayee