Ad
News

Google Code Search peers into programs' flaws

Published on October 10, 2006

Security professionals warned developers on Thursday that they need to be aware that their open-source repositories can now be easily mined, allowing attackers to target programs that are likely to be flawed. Read more

Apple issues another Mac patch bundle

Published on March 14, 2006

Apple released its second bundle of security updates in as many weeks, issuing updates to fix problems in a few core Mac OS X programs, including the operating system's e-mail client and Safari, the default Web browser. Read more

ATI's R520 has eight Shader units

Published on December 10, 2004

The next generation ATI graphic chip codenamed "Fudo" will increase the number of Shader units from previous generation. Read more

KOffice 1.5 released

Published on April 11, 2006

The KDE Project today announced the latest version of its open-source office suite. KOffice 1.5 now uses the Oasis Open Document format as the default file format. Read more

Latest Reviews & Articles

Five Multimedia Notebooks, Tested

Published on November 15, 2008

Bigger is still better among new multimedia notebooks, where heft and battery life aren't as important as bright screens and video wizardry. Read more

Power-Saving Motherboards: Fact Or Fiction?

Published on November 14, 2008

All motherboards support overclocking—now it’s time for power-saving. Here we evaluate products from ASRock, Asus, Foxconn, Gigabyte and MSI, weighing both performance and power consumption, to determine which P45 motherboard is most efficient. Read more

Overclocking Goes Int'l.: Overdrive In The USA

Published on November 14, 2008

We're gearing up to start the international preliminaries of our Overdrive overclocking championship, which will determine who gets to graduate from Core 2 Duo to tweaking Core i7 965 Extreme. Read on for more about the vision behind this event. Read more

Does 790FX + SB750 = High-End Overclocking?

Published on November 13, 2008

AMD’s shift in focus to high-value multi-core processors has disappointed performance fanatics, but overclocking helps. We tested the company's latest enthusiast parts to find out if there are any real performance gains. Read more

  Tom's Hardware Forums » Windows XP » Windows XP General Discussion » Need help with spy programs
 

Need help with spy programs




Word :   Username :  
 
Bottom
Author
 Thread : Need help with spy programs
 
Profile: stranger
More Information

This maybe a little off topic but I'm hoping someone on here can help. First off I'm not talking about ad-ware or spy-ware. I'm trying to figure out how someone can spy on a computer workstation and see what programs are running, what times you are doing stuff, etc, etc. I'm not sure if there is a background program running or not. Is it possible to do this in Windows XP, without aftermarket software? If not how can you tell if there is software running? This isn't something that is being done live, it's being done after hours when everyone is gone. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.


Message edited by thomasp94 on 08-10-2007 at 06:37:18 PM
Related Product

Register or log in to remove.

Profile: member
More Information

It would require a third party application. Some of them will show up easily, in your process list. Others (more expensive ones) are basically impossible to detect.

Profile: Eternal Poster
More Information

Windows keeps logs with some if not all of the information you mentioned. Probably someone like a system administrator would know better how you can access them and what reports can be generated. If fact they might be able to generated a report to tell you who and what is being accessed after hours. lotussama is right if it's a 3rd party program, they are difficult to detect although sometimes but sometimes something like SpyBot will find them. You could always install one of these programs and they will let you know what's going on

Profile: stranger
More Information

Cool, thanks for the help! I already went into the administrator tools and looked at the security setting and there is something called auditing (which was turned off) could that be something someone could use?
I'm going to try installing spybot on Monday.

Profile: Eternal Poster
More Information

You should turn it on and see what you get. If this is a business and I had security concerns, I would at least look into contracting with a System Administrator or Security person. Who ever would do be capable of doing what you're concerned with would have to be very compute literate. There also should be logs on all the computers that would tell you who logged in and at what time. Is this you're business or are you concerned you're boss is monitoring what you're doing? If the latter, assume they are.


Message edited by g-paw on 08-12-2007 at 02:47:01 AM
Profile: stranger
More Information

It's not my business, I'm the full time IT tech for the company. But I have a suspicion that the owner brings in an outside firm to check the computers. And this is an area that I don't have really any experience in, so I was really wanting to figure out how and what they were doing. The owner is kinda of a penny pincher too, so I was pretty much ruling out the expensive software, but I could be wrong. The help that you all have given me so far will definitly give me a direction to go in, anyway. Thanks again.

Profile: Eternal Poster
More Information

thomasp94 wrote :

It's not my business, I'm the full time IT tech for the company. But I have a suspicion that the owner brings in an outside firm to check the computers. And this is an area that I don't have really any experience in, so I was really wanting to figure out how and what they were doing. The owner is kinda of a penny pincher too, so I was pretty much ruling out the expensive software, but I could be wrong. The help that you all have given me so far will definitly give me a direction to go in, anyway. Thanks again.



I know that businesses can generate reports on what users are doing and when they are doing it. One of the IT people where I work told me they could. I didn't ask for details because obviously this would be suspicious. Your best bet would be to start researching the OS you're using to find out what kind of reports you can run and how to do it. Of course if he has someone monitoring stuff, they'll likely know what you're doing. Kind of Spy Versus Spy from Mad Magazine :)


  Tom's Hardware Forums » Windows XP » Windows XP General Discussion » Need help with spy programs

Go to:
 

Google Ads