hacking my own computer

[strandedthinker]

you cant do much to see if your kids are trustworthy and not pliable to start doing things youd rather them not do on the internet. personally i can speak from experience of what the internet is, as my sister has been bannded by my parents by talking to strangers on the internet, calling them long distance, and then ending up with a 550 phone bill.

but this post isnt about ethics though

[detoxsmurf]

I use and can recommend spy agent.
http://www.spytech-web.com/spyagent.shtml

[dragonx81]

Originally posted here by Dahvid
my advice would be stop spying on your kids and learn to trust them

im with him iznt it kinda lamo if u cant trust ur own kidz

[amazingzarkon]

Here are a couple of points:

If the ISP connection is in your name, you are likely going to be held responsible for how it is used regardless of whether you or your kids or your friend or someone else entirely actually sent unacceptable traffic.

If your PC is housing child pornography or a list of credit card numbers, you could be arrested for it. Regardless of whether you or your child actually downloaded/stored the files there. Yeah you might not go to jail, but do you really want to go through the hassle?

It is not illegal to monitor employee activity at work. It is the employer's bandwidth, time, and PC that are being used. As long as the employees are informed of the monitoring policy there is nothing illegal or even unethical about monitoring activity.

With regards to the issue of trust - I don't trust people by default. I can't - to a certain extent it is my responsibility to not trust people.

When my kids are older I will explain to them what is considered acceptable use and what is not acceptable use for my PCs on my internet connection in my house. I will have controls in place to limit and/or monitor their activity. I hope that as they grow up, they will continue to earn my trust and respect. However I fully expect that no matter how good they are, that they will make some stupid mistakes and bad decisions. I know I did, and occasionally I still do. Still I feel that raising my children is my responsibility. Turning a blind eye to what my children do would be ignoring my responsibility.

[TwistedSnyper]

I am a teenager prolly about as old as your kids. I am 16 yrs old. To watch what your kids are doing online and who there talkin to and when basically what, when and where right. There are some remote trojans out there like sub7 and net-devil. Personally i have used net-devil you and get this program at http://www.net-devil.com. This program includes password caching, keylooging and ect.ect. Also with yahoo messenger and aol instant messenger in three program files there is a log of what your kids have said and who theyve talked too. A couple more things you can do is run a html proxy on your home internet like Bess, my school has this and it works very well, but if ur a smart kid like myself u can bybass this very easily if u know what ur doin. but for the computer illiterate people out there bess is just the answer. Finally what you can do is run a netware or novell client on your computer and give your kids each and account and give them access rights to your liking. hope this was usefull and if u dont know alot about computers i would recommend using the remote trojan net-devil. but for future reference i would use netware and bess the html proxy. I will also attach a keylogger to this post that you can use. the keylogger used ms-dos it works very well i have used it to obtain my parent passwords. they program is called keycopy


Twisted Kid

[al36931]

well i think is a easy task spy ur kids on ur computer u can make some logs in some applications like email, internet, u just need active some propertys on ur applications and hide this log too

[dark dragon03]

um this post isnt about family members and trust he is asking abotu a keylogger so instead of judging hima nd getting in his biz...step off and help him out...i know of a keylogger called home keylogger...you can easily hide it and bring it back up by pressing predefined keys...i beliebe it is...ctrl+alt+shift+k and the site to get it at is... http://www.spyarsenal.com/keylogger/ its easy to use and best of all its free : )

[willie12]

how can you track and email down that someone that you don`t know?

[RoadClosed]

Hmmm, yes it's wrong to spy on kids. After all - parents have nothing better to do than worry about what their kids are doing locked in their rooms. It's not right to show concern about the well being of a preteen child or someone who is in high school. I mean, kids never do anything wrong anyhow. Come on you guys! They never chat with strangers and give our personal information. They never attempt to look at porn or surf interesting areas to satisfy their curiousity about sex or drugs or alchohol. They are angels who only desire to seek knowledge on Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. They never click on links or download stuff that installs trojans and spyware on the PC. How could they? Yes it's wrong to show a little concern about what is going on in their lives. The internet is safe, 8-14 year old girls are never lured into meetings with stange persons, with ominous intentions. Kids never use their web cams to show off there private bedrooms and other more curious things. Yes it's wrong for a parent to care and try to be active in their children's lives, both off and on-line.

sheesh.

As a proud supporter of WinVnC for admininstration reasons, I urge everyone not to forget the *free* tool for home use. It installs as a service and with the right security it cannot be disabled. With it you can see what is on the childrens desktop at anytime. In addition, if you are really concerned, because the child spends and extraordinary amount of time online, make sure the PC is facing the door. Pop in once in a while to say hi and talk a bit. If the user starts closing windows like crazy, pop up the VNC once in a while for a quick glance. You don't necessarily have to read everything, just get a general idea of what is going on and go from there.

[hellbringer87]

hey, i don't do that stuff... and arithmetic is fun =D.