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In a recent article published by consumer internet and technology magazine PC World, Paul Venezia sheds light on the security risks inherit with trusting your company's entire IT infrastructure to one individual, or in many cases, a small handful of individuals. Many may consider this a common practice, on par with trusting your company's accounting duties to the company accountant or an outside accounting firm.

SpyReveal is proud of have been mentioned on CNN's American Morning by computer security expert Mario Armstrong which you can watch here. For a transcript of the interview, please see below.

Although the term "spyware" is almost universally recognizable, few people really understand what the term "spyware" actually means. Spyware is a type of program (or sometimes, a virus) that is designed to secretly collect your personal information. A keylogger is a very common type of spyware, as a keylogger can collect almost all information that you physically type into your computer.

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When detecting a keylogger on your family's computer, it is important not only to act quickly, but to take preemptive measures as well, which include regular anti keylogging scans of your system. Your family's computer is a particularly desirable target for identity thieves, due to the fact that multiple members of your family likely use the household computer on a regular basis. This gives identity thieves multiple chances to gain access to the personal information of any given member of your family.

Removing a keylogger from your computer, after it has already been infecting your computer for some time, can mean that any information already collected by that keylogger could have fallen into the wrong hands. Therefore, in order to keep your information safe from keyloggers it is important to safeguard your computer from infection to the best of your ability. As any keylogging security expert will tell you, one of the most important anti keylogging steps you can take is to keep your computer's software up to date.

Keylogger infections are becoming an increasingly common way for identity thieves to steal your personal and financial information. As such, we here at SpyReveal felt that it would be important to educate our readers on the prime locations for getting your computer infected with a keylogger. We hope that this list will help some of you to avoid these traps, and that you may better protect yourself in the future.

1. Malicious Websites

According to Andrew Brandt, a senior associate editor of PC World Magazine, criminals are increasingly turning to keylogging as a technique for stealing your personal and financial information. Although phishing was once the primary technique for criminals hoping to steal your financial information, as consumers become more aware of phishing and better able to avoid such schemes, criminals have turned to keyloggers. Detecting keyloggers has therefore become a prime subject of recent IT security.

Anti keyloggers are used quite often in the office to remove keyloggers, by both employees and employers. Oftentimes, employees feel that their employer may be using a keylogger to track their activities while at work: the first question that crosses many people's mind is, is this legal?

Do the computers you open to the public need an anti-keylogger? Without a doubt, the answer is yes. Hackers and identity thieves are increasingly making public computers a prime target for their scams and general wrong-doings, and in order to keep the users of your public computers safe, daily scans for hidden keyloggers are an absolute necessity.