Spyware such as this can be a big headache for system administrators. In March, a surgical assistant named Scott Graham was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to pay US$33,000 in restitution to an Akron, Ohio, hospital, after a spyware program that he'd sent to an employee's Yahoo e-mail address was in Akron Children's Hospital's pediatric cardiac surgery department.

The spyware product, called , captured about 1,000 screen shots containing confidential patient information and sent them to Graham, prosecutors said.

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