Free internet logger.

Father Ted · 15 Dec 2006 at 12:02

Does anybody know of a free program that will record internet activity - sites visted, dates, times etc.
Thanks in advance.

david334 · 15 Dec 2006 at 13:58

History ?

Father Ted · 15 Dec 2006 at 14:09

Doesn't provide enough info. I need times when pages were accessed as well as dates.

Poolybit · 15 Dec 2006 at 14:10

History does this. It gives you "Page last visited" and a time and a date.

Father Ted · 15 Dec 2006 at 14:35

Yes it gives time last visited, but it does not have a history of times when the pages were visited on previous ocassions.

Curiosityx · 15 Dec 2006 at 14:43

Who do you want to spy on? Home or Work?

Father Ted · 15 Dec 2006 at 14:56

This is for work.

david334 · 15 Dec 2006 at 15:00

IBTL - I don't think this thread is allowed someone got there thread locked the other week for asking about keyloggers at work

David334

toy_soldier · 15 Dec 2006 at 15:01

Get an old machine and install linux and squid on it (web proxy)

Point the computer / computers you want to monitor through it and then you will have log files galore.

Curiosityx · 15 Dec 2006 at 15:10

Father Ted said:
This is for work.

Would not recommend it, you can use the tools avaliable through Windows and technologies like ISA to log what users look at but not install software that monitors personal usage unless they are informed.

Father Ted · 15 Dec 2006 at 15:12

Users would be informed before any monitoring software installed.

toy_soldier · 15 Dec 2006 at 17:33

david334 said:
IBTL - I don't think this thread is allowed someone got there thread locked the other week for asking about keyloggers at work

David334

Who mentioned key loggers lol.

david334 · 15 Dec 2006 at 17:42

toy_soldier said:
Who mentioned key loggers lol.

No one did ...

" I don't think this thread is allowed " ...

touch · 15 Dec 2006 at 18:02

Curiosityx said:
not install software that monitors personal usage unless they are informed.

If he is the owner of the buisness and they are using the company he is allowed to monitor the access under the RIP act2000

The same applys to call centres where they record all calls etc.

zetec452 · 15 Dec 2006 at 18:16

The only free internet monitoring software worth looking at would be squid proxy with Dans guardian and some kind of log analyser. I think Sarge is a log analyser for Squid.

This will all run on linux and could be managed via webmin if needed.

rickyt · 15 Dec 2006 at 18:52

There was a program I use to use years ago that logged sites visited ,ip addys , times etc and would block certain things getting on your PC , you could configure it to block .exe ,js etc .I used it on my internet PC's that were running ME. I recently tried it out on a Pc running XP and it still works .It was called SNETGUARD .Would'nt know if it was still available but it was good .Only thing though , once the PC was switched off it wiped all data .

bitslice · 15 Dec 2006 at 20:37

Father Ted said:
Doesn't provide enough info. I need times when pages were accessed as well as dates.

yes it does, MS just hides it from the numpties.
(NOTE: doing this on someones PC is iffy, doing it on a works PC when you are not the admin will get your bum kicked

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as I said in the locked thread.
download IEHIST from:
http://www.cqure.net/wp/?page_id=18

retrieve index.dat file

type ---> iehist index.dat > log.txt

and you'll get a dated ouput like this for every site visted.

URL|2006/12/15 20:29:7|Visited: xxx@http://www.thetechzone.com
URL|2006/12/15 20:30:17|Visited: xxx@http://www.google.co.uk
URL|2006/12/13 20:31:8|Visited: xxx@http://www.google.co.uk/

Could someone tell me why the other thread got locked ?

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edit: more thoughts.

Obviously, as an admin, you can pick up the users index.dat file remotely, so scripting a download off their PC and doing some log analysis on it should be straightforward.

I've also seen this done with remote profiles, as the history info gets stored on the server.

tbh. it's a darn sight easier to output your router/firewall log to kiwi syslog and script the log analysis from there. I use that purely to detect spyware signatures/.exe downloads.

not that I'd ever know if you read this as nobody posts back....

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