This is just to warn you.

There could be a snooper programme in your home or work computer taking snapshots of every site you visit.

And the programme could have been placed there by a suspicious spouse or employer. So watch what you do -- or you could be heading for www.infidelity.com or www.Cheating-Husbands.com.

Most of the software was developed to help parents track what their children were doing on the computer, but employers and suspicious significant others turned them on their employees and partners.

For starters, try Spector (www.spectorsoft.com), a program that takes a series of screen snapshots that can be replayed back to see what a person is doing on the computer.

The programme costs $50. WinWhatWhere Investigator (www.winwhatwhere.com/terms.htm) is more built for the work situation. The software is priced according to the number of installations and records date, time started, time elapsed, program captions, and keystrokes.

Silent Watch (www.adavi.com), StealthLogger Pro Bot ($45; www.slogger.hypermart.net), Desktop Detective ($15: www.bitlogic.co.uk) all offer variations of the same services. VNC is a free version from AT&T's Cambridge labs that can be had at www.uk.research.att.com/vnc.

This program allows a suspicious manager to actually watch from another computer what someone else is doing on a monitored network computer.

Wireless security company Ensure Technologies (www.ensuretech.com) has teamed up with a manufacturer to make watches that automatically unlock your computer when you approach it and lock it again when you walk away.

The watches will each contain a radio transmitter that beams a password to a receiver on the computer. The computer automatically locks when it doesn't detect the password signal. Users can set it to work from between one to 12 metres away.

Logitech has developed an optical wheel mouse that transmits tactile sensations giving users the ability to "feel'' their way around Windows and Internet applications.

The mouse transmits the effects as the cursor travels over icons and menus, command bars, folders, tool bars, web buttons and hyperlinks. Apparently the sensations make it easier for users to figure out if they're clicking on what they wanted. iFeel MouseMan will list for $59.95 in the US. For a description visit www.logitech.com.

This year's Internet Marketing Seminar will be held at the Bermuda College Conference Centre on November 3 and 4. The seminar is being run by a company called Affluence Marketing and their site promises to deliver the steps to untold riches on the Internet through building an Internet business.

The blurb on the sign-up site is over the top but the seminar might be useful to people who are looking at a structured approach at getting into the game and who are willing to shell out $595.

The panel includes an ad writer called Marlon Sanders, Declan Dunn (described as the author of The Insider's Guide to Affiliate Programs and Winning The Affiliate Game), and Kirt Christensen, who is described as the "genius behind no less then four successful Internet companies. Last year, he took an existing project and increased revenues by over 950 percent in less than five months! He then sold it for $11 million!'' Apparently, Mr. Christensen will reveal "How to use automation to look like a big company, when you are actually laying around on the beach! One of Kirt's smaller Internet businesses was set up to run automatically. (He doesn't even have to send any orders out.) Within a few short months he was able to generate $40,000 (plus) per month.

Unfortunately there are no links on the site to these amazing businesses so the unfortunate hype does seem like a bit of snake oil salesmanship. I had to laugh at the blurb for Mr. Sanders as well, which revealed that he would show participants a "unique system (that) makes writing almost as easy as turning on your computer''. Hey, I wish he could switch it around and make turning on a computer and getting it to work properly as easy as writing.

I also did a quick search of the Internet and came up with www.allmarketing.net at which Mr. Christensen, 26, offers the "The Scientific Marketing Ezine'' which he says has 22,135 subscribers. The site also offers marketing advice and copy writing tips for a price. It seems as if the copy on the seminar came from the same school.

Mr. Christensen's biography states that he started a business with seed money of $550 in cash that grossed him over $37,000 in 14 months and that only took him 47 hours of work to create.

"After I put in the original time, the money just continues to flow in day in and day out! (Who wouldn't want to have a business like that???) Here's the site if you want to check out how I make my `bread and butter` money! www.magazine-mecca.com,'' he states. The site offers online subscriptions to 591 different regular magazines at up to 37 percent discounts.

He also was the sales and marketing man for a seven-person software company now called OpenMarket. The company was later sold for $11 million, he states.

OpenMarket (www.openmarket.com) sells Shopsite, software that small business owners can use to set up e-commerce ready sites. Apparently the software, which can be purchased through resellers for up to $1,300, is used by 30,000 businesses.

Mr. Christensen's main point seems to be that all you really need is marketing to make it big time. "Marketing isn't a function of business... IT IS BUSINESS!!!!,'' he states.

This strategy goes against the grain of the the Internet age's mantra -- "Content is king".

For more information on other speakers and how to register visit (marketingaffluence.com/seminar2000 or telephone Kent Bascome at 44-132-262-4858 or Antwan Albuoy at 441-293-7435.

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