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stumpy6

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I have a teenager daugther (15) that uses my pc which is in the living room. She has been sent down to live with me by her mum and as i work and she's at home alone (she goes to collage here in september). She is always on msn, bebo, facebook, and when ever i look up at the monitor (from the sofa) she hides these pages or shuts them down. Now i trust her but i dont those that she talks to, as over the weekend a stranger turned up at the door and thought that he could take her out to Stafford i live in Southend (i went mad at her and more so him).

Now my question is this. Is there any software that i can use that will monitor anything that is typed so i can keep a eye on what is being talked about. I dont want to spy as i dont want her to feel as she can't trust me but as i dont want the same thing to happen again i cant trust who's shes talking to.

This also has to be free, be able to run in the background and run on windows 7
Thanks
 
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To log MSN conversations, enabling "Automatically keep a history of my conservations" in Messeges->Messege History might be worthwhile, for keylogging try KGB Free Logger

If anybody has any good recommendations for free keylogging software, could you please list it so I can add it to the "Useful Freeware Utilities Thread"...

Thanks.
 
"Is there any software that i can use that will monitor anything that is typed"
"I dont want to spy"

You clearly do

I imagine every 15 year old girl hides pages when someone looks at what you are doing on facebook. I'm 24 and when I was at home hid pages from my mum when she came in (even though she is a friend on my facebook)
 
Guest2 said:
"Is there any software that i can use that will monitor anything that is typed"
"I dont want to spy"

You clearly do

I imagine every 15 year old girl hides pages when someone looks at what you are doing on facebook. I'm 24 and when I was at home hid pages from my mum when she came in (even though she is a friend on my facebook)
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I was the same too. But I think when random strangers are actually looking this girl up and coming to the door, it gets into a grey area of protection over spying.

I would say a keylogger if you want to catch everything thats typed (remember this includes usernames and passwords so if your worried about security, I wouldn't use it) or page monitoring software. A quick google will give you a list.

Also do you want to run the risk of falling out with her if she ever finds out? I've seen familys break up over less trivial things than invasion of privacy, cause thats what this is.
 
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On internet its pretty hard or impossible for the average person to "look someone up then come to their house" I imagine she has told the person where she lives, in which case its her stupid fault. She is 15 after all, not 10
 
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On internet its pretty hard or impossible for the average person to "look someone up then come to their house" I imagine she has told the person where she lives, in which case its her stupid fault. She is 15 after all, not 10
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not that hard on social networking sites. usually there is "hometown" or "current location" (a bit like OcUK forums but in more depth i know FB has the hometown: town,city option. details can be very specific on fb) and usually the persons full name. flip through a phonebook, especially if its not a common name. But yea you knew what I was trying to get at, no need to be pedantic she probably did tell him.
 
One of my mates recently put his ex-girlfriends phone number on facebook in a posted conversation she had with (possibly) someone she cheated on. Cue him then posting for people to stop texting her loads of crap about it.

If you put your town, house number, postcode and phone number on something like facebook, be prepaired for people to find you (especially if you are a 15 year old girl!)
 
I didnt say that she didnt tell him where she lived. As i think she did but my point is it should not of happen in the first place. This guy was 35 and was under the impression that he was gonna go to stafford with her. I told her how i felt about it after he had buggered off.
"I dont want to spy on her" but at least i would have some notice as to when and if it happens again. Cos what i dont think is clear is while im at work she is at home on her own on face book, msn, bebo all day till about 10pm (i usually work from 6.30am till about 5-6pm)
I dont want to stop her talking to her friends but as a single parent i dont want to come home one day and find she aint here cos of something that i could have stopped with a little bit of information that some software like this would give.
As for her finding out, i dont think there would be any chance of that as i wouldnt install it in the usual place, have the program file hidden and if possible password protected, delete it from all programs and have the short cut to the exe hidden. Shes not all that tech savvy.
 
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I didnt say that she didnt tell him where she lived. As i think she did but my point is it should not of happen in the first place. This guy was 35 and was under the impression that he was gonna go to stafford with her. I told her how i felt about it after he had buggered off.
"I dont want to spy on her" but at least i would have some notice as to when and if it happens again. Cos what i dont think is clear is while im at work she is at home on her own on face book, msn, bebo all day till about 10pm (i usually work from 6.30am till about 5-6pm)
I dont want to stop her talking to her friends but as a single parent i dont want to come home one day and find she aint here cos of something that i could have stopped with a little bit of information that some software like this would give.
As for her finding out, i dont think there would be any chance of that as i wouldnt install it in the usual place, have the program file hidden and if possible password protected, delete it from all programs and have the short cut to the exe hidden. Shes not all that tech savvy.
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That's along time for her (or anyone) to be on these types of sites. What about setting time limits, or blocking sites while your not there, or for certain periods of time (like 10am-4pm) using software (don't know of any free ones but "EZ Internet Timer" seems a good one)?

Like we've already suggested, a keylogger is light and usually hidden (again google is your friend), the only problem is you will need to trawl through logs of every key hit to find the specific information you are looking for, but it will be there.
 
Since she's fifteen I've a feeling you'd end up reading far more than you really want to. So consider that first. But the incident you described is pretty damn worrying. Must be tough. :(

If you go the keylogging route make sure your security software allows exceptions as any AV software should stop keyloggers.
 
Get her to use of of those anti-rape devices then invite the 35 year old around to study in her bedroom. Dont think you'll see him for a while then!
 
Instead of doing all this. Just tell her straight, I don't want you ever meeting strangers again. Or something, tell her a bad story like how people get raped etc.
 
Macky said:
Instead of doing all this. Just tell her straight, I don't want you ever meeting strangers again. Or something, tell her a bad story like how people get raped etc.
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I'm sure just telling a teenager to do something will automatically mean they do the opposite?
 
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