Spam E-mail Reveals Internet Security Threat, Experts Warn
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Unsolicited e-mails with the subject line, "What does your Lover do on the Internet?" have been circulating recently, offering an $89 software program called LoverSpy. Computer experts warn the spyware program is for real and poses a serious threat to Internet security.
"Spy on Anyone by sending them an E-Greeting Card!" reads the spam.
However, unlike the many weight loss and organ enlargement ads or requests for assistance from the widows of deposed foreign dictators, this latest cyber mass mailing may actually be telling the truth.
"It actually does what's advertised," said Mike Cermak the owner of TechSupportGuy.com in an interview with CNSNews.com. TechSupportGuy.com is an Internet forum dedicated to addressing technical issues with computers.
"It does work, and from the couple [of] people I know who have had it, it works quite well," Cermak added.
The recipient of a LoverSpy E-Greeting Card would subsequently become vulnerable to having all of his or her computer activity - the visiting of websites, the opening of e-mails, the typing of passwords - monitored by the person who sent the E-greeting, and in real time, the software maker claims.
LoverSpy's website boasts that users of the software can monitor "every single Chat conversation [the targeted computer user has] on the Internet. In fact, every keystroke they type into the computer is recorded and sent to you in an organized report - every single web site they visit, whether using AOL, Internet Explorer, or Netscape."
CNSNews.com downloaded and tried the demo product, and it appeared to work as advertised. But several efforts to contact LoverSpy for comment were not successful. The website address of LoverSpy has been traced to a website in Moscow, according to the e-mail content filtering company, Clearswift, based in England.
According to Clearswift's Sept. 25 statement, a "careful analysis indicates that [LoverSpy] is, in fact, a repackaged version of well-known spyware named emailPI from a Washington, D.C.,-based company."
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