I'll bite:-
On the first point regarding you being a liar. If you are a PI then you should be a suspicious SOB that thrusts nothing on face value. Then you need to think too. Because you have to know that a bunch of computer security geeks are going to be suspicious SOB's that don't take anonymous **** on the internet at face value. If you aren't a PI, you would have to think that a bunch of computer security geeks would be familiar with a PI's work, repsonsibilities and legal obligations.... In short, if you need help... be honest... We don't care about "lame" or "noob" questions... We _really_ care about people trying to play silly games with us.
To your problem, (based on your last version of "the truth"). You are a government employee that has a wife that is a bitch who has sent you a keylogger via email that you were *cough* dumb enough to click on knowing that she is a bitch.... ahh... we'll leave that alone for now.... and you want to know if the mail can be traced, the keylogger found and the culprit located?
That's my reading of it.... The answer is an emphatic yes on all counts depending upon the quality if your IT staff. Granted, the IT staff in local government are not usually the stellar kind you find elsewhere but don't be decieved... just because the dumbass there today isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer doesn't mean that all the systems required for the "investigation" aren't there and functioning perfectly because his predecessor had his **** in one pile.
I say it in that fashion because, being the suspicious old SOB I am there is a high probability that you are trying to socially engineer us into telling you how you might avoid detection if you were to try this on your poor "bitch" of a wife.....
Again, in short.... It all depends on the quality of the IT staff and the mechanisms they have in place, (and, frankly, their interest in your "plight"), as to whether they can detect and trace this if you are, indeed, the victim, or you can trust nothing and no-one if you are the attacker.
This might not seem to be particularly helpful. It is if you read it thoroughly. It is deliberately not precise since, were you the attacker, I wouldn't want you to begin to understand the techniques you might use to try to hide your activity.
Go speak to your IT staff. Tell them that you believe you might have screwed up and allowed your bitch of a wife to install a keyogger on your computer and that now she can see all the local government business you carry out on a daily basis. Then duck!!!
