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Does anyone have a suggestion for a keystroke logger?

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Long story short…

I allow my baby sitter to use one of my PCs when she is over. I had a couple of rules such as no downloading and no Myspace, facebook etc.

Going through the box the other day, I found some things that make me believe she isn’t following my rules. I don’t want to ban the use of the PC without cause so I was thinking about installing a logger to track exactly what she did while on my PC.

I was curious if anyone out there has experience with any of the shareware loggers available.

Also, the thought of doing this makes me feel a little voyeuristic, what do people think of this from a ethical point of view?

Slappy

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Not a lot to be quite honest

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You are putting yourself into a position where you could easily be accused of invading her privacy.

Have a look at netnanny or somesuch instead.

You can lock these websites out in the firewall.

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In the firewall section of your Anti-virus software you can lock any website out.

Or go into your security section and do the same. If you have a router you might be able to lock these websites out so that no one has access.
Or you can use this:
http://www.privacywindows.com/kids_restrict_website_software.html

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.
If this information is useful, please mark as helpful. Thanks.

Here ya go

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First off, you have laid down the law, if she doesn’t obey, there will be consequences, that is the way I see it. I have tried this program out and it works wonderfully. You can get a free 5 day trial. It runs in the background and the user, even if found, cannot turn it off unless they have the password. It has a stealth setting that makes it completly invisible. even to you, i think you have to call it by shift+f5 or something like that. Also, a hang up with it is norton or mcafee, they see it as spyware (which it is in a literal sense) so they will block it. Just go into your filter and tell it to allow the program. It is either spyware.pctattletale or something like that. Anyway, here is the link:
http://www.pctattletale.com/ Hope this helps.

local hosts file

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from the ethics side I don’t see anything wrong with it, it is your property, and your choice what to run on your machine, it would be her fault for entering personal information on a machine that she is not an admin on. it is just like using WiFi at a coffee shop, any other user could be sniffing your packets, so if someone obtains your email or bank passwords, it is from your own stupidity.

I agree with the guy above, you can have even a standard Linksys home router block specific web pages you don’t want people going to or use programs like Netnanny to really lock down what a user can do.

A third option is altering the local host table to redirect myspace or facebook to something like Disney.

you need the IP address of the site, that can be found by ping http://www.website.com on the command line, it will give you the address translation.
then you need to go to the host file located at “C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts” open that in notepad then at the bottom add the ip address you just got, then tab and type in http://www.disney.com.

windows always checks that file first for routing packets before giving it to the router to find, plus I usually find it fun to watch people get confused when they are directed to a website they didn’t intend on going to.

This only solves your issues with known websites visited, downloading is a separate issue, which i cannot think of a quick and easy fix

I thought this was going to be a short response and it got kinda lengthy sorry.

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