Jude 2

Someone has approached me for help. It is a pretty touchy situation. Without going into too much detail, let me ask for advice from Windows tech people.

If a person had a need to track someone's internet usage on a shared computer -- emails, sites visited -- without the other person's knowledge, what works best.

I know there are several methods, including key loggers, etc. but this person is pretty tech-clueless, so it has to be really simple, easy to use at a non-technical level, simple to install, and invisible. FREE would be great, too.

Talk to me.

This shared computer... is it in a home or office?

There is software you can use. Software would probably be the best if the person doing the tracking is not tech-savy.

I have never tracked, so I have no real recommendations on which software is the best.

Spector Pro

Track4Win

are just a couple.

Paully_44 wrote:This shared computer... is it in a home or office?

There is software you can use. Software would probably be the best if the person doing the tracking is not tech-savy.

I have never tracked, so I have no real recommendations on which software is the best.

Spector Pro

Track4Win

are just a couple.

It is a home situation, a personal PC, not business, and running some version of Windows. Thanks.

Pastor Gary wrote:

Paully_44 wrote:This shared computer... is it in a home or office?

There is software you can use. Software would probably be the best if the person doing the tracking is not tech-savy.

I have never tracked, so I have no real recommendations on which software is the best.

Spector Pro

Track4Win

are just a couple.

It is a home situation, a personal PC, not business, and running some version of Windows. Thanks.

I'm going to have to agree with the software idea. I've never done this type of thing before (all the tracking I've done was on a corporate network, using a proxy, usually authenticated with network credentials.) However, software is going to be the easiest method and probably least detectable by someone who doesn't "know what they're doing"

Good luck!

maybe this is too simple or don't apply...but when I'm checking up on my kids I always look at the browising history first...checking the cookies is also really simple...this of course is based on the assumption that said person is not deleting the history and cookies...

let me know if you need steps to do this...

PastorDaniel wrote:maybe this is too simple or don't apply...but when I'm checking up on my kids I always look at the browising history first...checking the cookies is also really simple...this of course is based on the assumption that said person is not deleting the history and cookies...

let me know if you need steps to do this...

Cookies and history, I am told, are scrubbed clean with every use, and even emails all deleted. What is needed, I suspect, is a background, undetectable program that captures everything done and reports it somehow.

now that looks like a cool one...

I wonder if it records mouse clicks and destinations on internet explorer or one of the other browsers?

I couldn't tell from the web page.

Jamais Vu wrote:http://www.actualkeylogger.com/

Trend Micro is showing this site as a threat.

CantBCoy wrote:

Jamais Vu wrote:http://www.actualkeylogger.com/

Trend Micro is showing this site as a threat.

Most likely because of the name keylogger.

There is one website (http://www.viralurl.com) that helps people advertise for home based businesses, but Spybot blocks it because of the name even though there is no virus, adware, or Spyware on the website.

CantBCoy wrote:

Jamais Vu wrote:http://www.actualkeylogger.com/

Trend Micro is showing this site as a threat.

any program that logs your computer activity is going to trigger any anti-virus or security application. you cant have the best of both worlds....you have to turn off your security apps to run spyware.

although you could set up a hidden camera somewhere over the users shoulder and hope you can clearly see whats on the screen.