New identity theft protection service offers early detection through proactive searches.

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Many identity theft protection services offer credit monitoring and fraud alerts, but a new service from Affinion Security Center, Norwalk, Conn. (a division of the Affinion Group) offers what it calls "enhanced" protection.

The service, called IdentitySecure, includes proactive searches for criminal activity. It offers features such as monitoring of Social Security numbers and public records to detect criminal activity, frequent data sweeps of the Internet for personal information, credit monitoring, and monitoring of underground chat...