We come across many individual computers infected with keyloggers, spyware and the like.  It is often a game changer in a divorce case and certainly has broader implications as noted below.  If you are a corporate IT manager, anti-virus/spyware protection software is not enough.  A unified strategy is needed to protect your company’s confidential data.

He allegedly sent the spyware to the woman’s Yahoo e-mail address, hoping that it would give him a way to monitor what she was doing on her PC. But instead, she opened the spyware on a computer in the hospital’s pediatric cardiac surgery department, creating a regulatory nightmare for the hospital.

via Misdirected spyware infects Ohio hospital – hospital, keylogger, medical records, privacy – CIO.