April 25, 2003

The Washington Times
Suspicious mates on e-mail trail
By Lara Naaman

"If all is fair in love and war, cyberspace is becoming a new battleground. People aren't using the Internet just to find love anymore; they're using it to catch wayward lovers.

With a little bit of creativity and, on occasion, some moderately priced software, suspicious partners can become their own private investigators or, more simply put, e-mail spies."

The Washington Times examines how Spector Pro and eBlaster are helping spouses take control of their relationships by learning the truth... "They find e-mails; they find an adulterous relationship. People are getting really good at searching where people have been on the Internet."

May, 2002

Macworld Magazine
Spies Like Us
by Lisa Schmeiser

"Once a Windows-only program, Spector - which crouches silently on a hard drive, taking snapshots of on-screen activity for later playback - now lests anyone running Mac OS 8 or later spy on anyone who happens to be using the computer. The utility is both undectable and invulnerable to being disabled by anyone but the installer..."

May 6, 2002

San Francisco Business Times
Big Brother pulls up a chair in workers' cubicles
by James Temple

Fremont official Dave Jenson is concerned about traffic. Not on the city's roads, but on municipal employees' Internet connections. The city monitors its network for signs of dubious or distracted surfing, so if employees tiptoe into the darker corners of the web or dally too long at Schwab.com, they'll probably be warned.

If they persist, or get caught making efforts to cover their digital footsteps, the network administrators install Spector. The software can record every keystroke entered at a particular workstation, whether it was saved or deleted. It can retrieve all emails sent from it -- even those using supposedly anonymous services such as Hotmail or AOL Instant Messaging. And it can not only look up the web pages or chat rooms the user visited, but exactly what was read, viewed or said there.

"We use the software to find out exactly what they're doing," said Jenson, Fremont's director of information technology.

Read the Full Story Online

Ricki Lake
"How to Catch a Cheater"

Featured on the syndicated television talk show Ricki Lake (airing on Monday, May 6).

There's more than one way to catch a cheater, and the alleged – but unsuspecting - two-timers on today's episode are about to experience what it’s like to be the main course on "Ricki's" "how to expose a cheater" menu. Today's guests are convinced that their mates have been unfaithful and are turning to "Ricki" to help them verify their suspicions – and their mates are shocked to discover that they've been under "surveillance" from some of the best experts in the business!

April 23, 2002

PC Magazine
Are You Being Watched?
by Brett Glass

“Spector Pro’s Chat playback interface reveals every exchange, leaving nothing to the imagination…you will not only know what the person typed, you’ll have logs of e-mail and chat room conversations and pictures of the screen”

January, 2002

SmartComputing
Whose Shoulder Are You Looking Over?
by Michael Sweet

Spector has two products for spying on your loved ones: Spector and eBlaster. You can use these products to monitor employees in a small business. These programs record all activity, such as keystrokes, Web sites visited, e-mails, instant messages, and chat room conversations, on the computer in which they’re installed. Spector takes screen shots of the image on the computer screen and stores them so you can view them later. You can adjust the interval between screen shots, which can be as frequent as once every second. Once you type the password, Spector is disabled so you can access the stored data.

December 17, 2001

TechTV.com
Review: eBlaster
By Ray Weigel

If keeping an eye on things from a remote location is of paramount importance, eBlaster should be at the top of your list. This software goes into deep hiding on the computer on which it's installed. It secretly monitors such information as which programs have been running, how long they've been actively in use, and which keystrokes were typed. The biggest plus to this electronic snooping is that once a full report has been compiled, it's sent via email from the suspect computer without the user's knowledge.

Read the Full Review at TechTV.com

November 26, 2001

Washingon Post
eBlaster, The V-Chip's Tougher Big Brother
By Laura Sessions Stepp

Now we can add one more weapon to our arsenal, a next generation of the software known as spyware. eBlaster, as it's called, enables parents to check the Web sites young Caitlin and Caleb visit, whom they talk to online and what they say -- from any remote location. Worried at work -- or on a business trip out of town -- when your kid's at home after school? No problem. Once eBlaster is installed on a home computer, it records all Web sites visited, all applications launched, all keystrokes typed and sends an activity report to a specified e-mail address as frequently as every 30 minutes.

July 2, 2001

Time
Internet Insecurity
By Adam Cohen

What can you expect if someone puts Spector 2.2 on your computer? It will secretly take hundreds of snapshots an hour of every website, chat group and e-mail that appears on your screen, and store them so that the special someone who is spying on you can review them later. A new product, eBlaster, will send the spy detailed e-mail reports updating your computer activities as often as every 30 minutes. These products work in stealth mode, so the people being spied on are totally unaware.

March 19, 2001

Fortune
Top 10 Tech Trends to Bet On
By Eric Nee & Peter H. Lewis

The End of Privacy:
A man in Memphis secretly installed a spyware program called Spector on his 13- year-old stepdaughter's personal computer last fall and discovered, by reading her private e-mail, that she was having sex with her 37-year-old schoolteacher.

March 17, 2001

NBC Nightly News

On March 17, NBC aired an article which showed various ways that parents keep track of where their children are and what they are up to.

The segment discussed how parents are using monitoring tools to find out exactly what their children are doing on the Internet. A parent who uses Spector talked about how he uses the software.

March 17-18, 2001

CNNdotCOM
"Is your computer being monitored?"
By Kristyn Martin

It's called snoopware and it allows snooping into someone's computer to monitor their every movement -- including read their e-mail and watching their chat rooms sessions.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/tools.snoopware/index.html

March 13, 2001

SmartMoney
Working: Spies Like Us
By Anne Kadet and Noah Rothbaum

Suspect that someone's been burrowing through your hard drive at night? Install Spector 2.1 to find out for sure.

http://www.smartmoney.com/consumer/index.cfm?story=spies

March 8, 2001

Family PC
Tools That Tame the Net
By Samuel Greengard and Edward Mendelson

Monitoring Tools Winner: Spector 2.1 Grade: A

February 19, 2001

Maclean's
"Do You Know Who's Watching You?"
By Chris Wood with Brenda Branswell

It could be your boss, your government, your spouse, or a sexual creep. As technology explodes, the law can't keep up.

February 9, 2001 (Originally aired December 15, 2000)

TechTV - CyberCrimes Show
"Using Computers to Catch a Cheat "

If you suspected your spouse or significant other was cheating on you, what lengths would you go to learn the truth?

November 20, 2000

Business Week
"A Nightmare for E-Adulterers"

Featured in the e.biz section of the November 20, 2000 edition of Business Week.

November 6, 2000

Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal had a page one feature on various ways parents monitor their children's whereabouts and activities.

Spector software was discussed as a way for parents to monitor their children's Internet activities.

October 4, 2000

Ricki Lake
"CYBERSEX ADDICTS.COM."

Featured on the syndicated television talk show Ricki Lake (airing on Wednesday, October 4).

On today's "Ricki," family members confront loved ones they say are addicted to cybersex. A mother of four is accused of being online for more than 20 hours a day! Her son says her kids are being neglected because of her obsession with the web. Another guest is surprised to learn that his web room "chat" partner is only 17 years old! The girl's mother is less than pleased with her daughter's web friend, and both the mother and the daughter demand that he leave her alone! Ricki gets web friendly and tries to determine who is using the web for innocent fun, and who is an addict.

September 29, 2000

NewsWeek Online
"Suspicions Confirmed"
By Diane Anderson

Products: Corporate snooping software finds an unintended market— spouses in search of cheaters...

September 18, 2000

The Industry Standard
"Suspicious Minds"
By Diane Anderson

September 13, 2000

Los Angeles Times
"Big Brother Is Tapping Your Cheating eHeart"
By Libby Copeland

Featured on Page 2 of the Style section.

September 12, 2000

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Software allows parents, significant others to keep watch over online activity"
By Stanley A. Miller II

Read the article online at:

http://www.jsonline.com/bym/tech/news/sep00/spy12091100.asp

September 12, 2000

The Dr. Laura Show
"When is an Affair an Affair?"

Spector featured on the syndicated television talk show "Dr. Laura".

August 21, 2000

ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
ABC Television Network

A Spector user is filmed talking about how she discovered that her husband was cheating on her.

August 9, 2000

Good Morning America
ABC Television Network

Spector user Greg Young talks about how he discovered his wife engaging in online affairs.

August 8, 2000

Washington Post
"Cyber-Snooping Into A Cheating Heart"
By Libby Copeland

Featured on Page 1 of the Style section. Read the article online at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/articles/A52154-2000Aug7.html

July 5, 2000

Boston Globe
"THE SPIES AMONG US ARE A KEYBOARD AWAY"
By Alex Pham

Feature Article on Cyber Cheating.

July 3, 2000

San Francisco Examiner
"Spector software lets parents, employers, spouses monitor everything happening on a host computer."
By Alan T. Saracevic

Read the article online at:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/07/03/

June 22, 2000

New York Times
"Spy Software Puts Home PC's Under Surveillance"
By Peter Lewis

The New York Times features Spector in its weekly Technology column called "Circuits".

In this article, a woman who used Spector to prove that her husband was cheating attributed Spector to "saving her life".

"I have no sympathy for people who would try to claim that two wrongs don't make a right," said the woman in Nashville who spied on her husband. "Spector helped save my life. How dare anyone say to me that what I did was wrong? When you're searching for truth and your spouse is doing everything he can to cover up, you depend on programs like Spector."