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Are You a Spy? Am I?

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4. SpyCop Software
When you use a computer, you leave an electronic trail that your boss or your spouse might follow. There's a vast variety of snooping software that can be used to track every Web site you visit, every e-mail you send or receive, even your instant messages.

Of course, just because it's fairly easy to track computer usage, it doesn't mean someone's spying on you. But just to be sure, SpyCop.org's software will let you know if covert surveillance spy programs have been installed in your computer.

The $50 program scans your system for 400 different spying software programs. SpyCop's "Evidence Terminator" program seeks out potentially embarrassing and incriminating evidence. Are you sure you deleted those letters from your ex-lover? What about those raunchy unsolicited e-mails you keep getting at work?

6. Dial-A-Cheater
The cell phone is a cheating spouse's best friend. Have you noticed a suspicious telephone number that keeps popping up on your partner's phone bill? Of course, you're not around when those calls are made or received. But you can watch what happens when your sweetie thinks he's getting a call from that number.

Dial-A-Cheater, offered by ACME Telephonic of Wichita, Kan., allows users to control which telephone number comes up on another person's caller ID.

Once you sign up with the service, you set the time, you set the number and watch the suspected cheater's reaction when the phone rings — and that certain number shows up on his caller ID. Will he play it cool or try to lie? Maybe it's all your imagination. But you may find out if your partner squirms when you casually ask, "Who was that on the phone?"

5. For-Your-Eyes-Only Pens
If you can't trust your computer or your telephone, how do you send secret messages? One suggestion: an ultraviolet pen. With ink that is visible only with a special light, you can fill a page with personal information and it will be blank to the naked eye.

A $9.95 UV pen from RKDM.com is equipped with UV ink and a special light on the other end to make your writing visible. The pen is not just for secret messages. It's a great way to mark your personal items and identify them if they're stolen. You can put your secret mark on everything you own, assuming someone doesn't walk off with your UV Pen before you get the chance.

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