Thank you for your very thought provoking post about the spyware.
It is VERY scary indeed.
What I have noticed within the past couple of months or so is that my computer HAS been getting flakier and flakier (which can also be normal computer behavior) but now having read your post, I am starting to wonder about A LOT of things that have happened during my use of it. Just since Friday, I have been logged off of my IM service repeatedly, and it was not me doing it. This morning I came home from Bible study to find my computer frozen, showing it had locked up just after being re-signed into the IM service.
Essentially, I am computer illiterate. My H, however, is a computer geek. When everything that happened Friday happened, my H made mention of a program that BMOW may be using to monitor us--some sort of a "backdoor" program but I have no idea what that is. Perhaps that is what eBlaster is--a "backdoor" program? I googled it, but haven't had much time to read through the sites yet. I think H and I need to have a discussion tonight about how BMOW can achieve spying on us from a remote location.
I have been aware of spy programs and the like, but have always thought that they have to be installed directly on the computer of the person that you want to spy on. I had NO IDEA that someone could install a program on a computer REMOTELY and then spy on that person. Good grief!!
What bothers me though, is that if you are spying on someone, you don't really want to be caught at it do you? My H said he thought she was simply sending him a message that she was "watching" our actions and wanted him to know that she was doing so, knowing that he would never confront her about it, and even if he did, that that was ok too because she would get to talk to him or see him, even if it was an argument.
Wow. Much food for thought. Thank you for your info.
Blessings to you, LG
A blessed and happy marriage is a union of two forgivers and Him, because...a cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12.
