Spyware Research Paper

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Agreeing that spyware is a good way to protect teens and their health.Spyware is a type of undercover job to keep the parents always knowing what their teens are doing.Spyware can help parents always knowing what their teens are doing.Spyware can also be explained to teens by their parents and them maybe the spyware will make parents embarrass their teens and the teens may lose a good relationship between the parents and their kids.Spyware can also be really catching pettaphiles and the parents may catch it before the teens go into the trap and right away the parents can block that website or chat box so their kids don't cause troubles or get into a trap .When parents pay like $75 to intall spyware into all the computers in their house for …show more content…
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And all the chaos that might happen can all be started by spyware that was installed in the teens computer in the first place.Spyware is something big that parents need to plan on having on their teens device but it can affect the future with

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