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Ok, well, I wasn't trying to stir up a debate on this. I know that a lot of
keyloggers are considered trojans/malware, but some are not and are retail
products, which is why I didn't post to any AV forums as someone earlier
suggested. I have to agree with Null that some situations aren't unethical,
and monitoring your kids' computer activity being one of them. In fact,
that's why she got worried in the first place, because their oldest daughter,
at 12, was playing Runescape and chatting online, and when the phone rang one
night and her mom asked who was calling, the person on the other end of the
line said they were so and so, and they wanted to talk to the (the daughter's
name) that he played runescape with, as she had given her number to hiim
through the game. This alarmed them, so they discussed what she should and
shouldn't discuss online, and then he put the logger on, so that they could
monitor what information she was and was not giving out. Now, as far as what
is legal, and what is not, that's not really what I was concerned about. I
know that more than likely, it would be considered illegal if he were using
one, but she isn't wanting to cause any sort of a conflict with him that
might spill over to the kids as they are going through enough as it is. She
just wants to make sure that she can use the computer without her chats and
emails, etc. all being sent to him as well as who was intended in the first
place. I imagine I'm just going to have to replace the drive and have her
get another OS disk so that it can all be reloaded clean, but I was trying to
save her the expense if at all possible. I was hoping someone on here might
have run across something that has a good track record of identifying these
things, and thanks to Wesley for his suggestion at the beginning of the
thread. I had found that one already and plan on using it, but that's
exactly the type suggestion/answer I was looking to get in here. Thanks to
all who responded.
John
keyloggers are considered trojans/malware, but some are not and are retail
products, which is why I didn't post to any AV forums as someone earlier
suggested. I have to agree with Null that some situations aren't unethical,
and monitoring your kids' computer activity being one of them. In fact,
that's why she got worried in the first place, because their oldest daughter,
at 12, was playing Runescape and chatting online, and when the phone rang one
night and her mom asked who was calling, the person on the other end of the
line said they were so and so, and they wanted to talk to the (the daughter's
name) that he played runescape with, as she had given her number to hiim
through the game. This alarmed them, so they discussed what she should and
shouldn't discuss online, and then he put the logger on, so that they could
monitor what information she was and was not giving out. Now, as far as what
is legal, and what is not, that's not really what I was concerned about. I
know that more than likely, it would be considered illegal if he were using
one, but she isn't wanting to cause any sort of a conflict with him that
might spill over to the kids as they are going through enough as it is. She
just wants to make sure that she can use the computer without her chats and
emails, etc. all being sent to him as well as who was intended in the first
place. I imagine I'm just going to have to replace the drive and have her
get another OS disk so that it can all be reloaded clean, but I was trying to
save her the expense if at all possible. I was hoping someone on here might
have run across something that has a good track record of identifying these
things, and thanks to Wesley for his suggestion at the beginning of the
thread. I had found that one already and plan on using it, but that's
exactly the type suggestion/answer I was looking to get in here. Thanks to
all who responded.
John
