Setting a PC trap ?

Moonpie2 · 4 Aug 2012 at 15:20

I'll not bore you with the details, but my friend thinks her other half is accessing her laptop and skype/gmail/msn etc accounts.

Whether this is from simply knowing the password or having a keylogger installed or being a 1337 programmer (as he is) I dunno.

But can anyone think of any good traps to set to find out for sure?

The only one I can think of (that I sometimes do myself) is to place the mouse in an exact position that's easy to remember, then if it moves a lot over the coming days then there's been shennanigans.

So like I say. Anyone have any sneaky ideas ?

[TW]Fox · 4 Aug 2012 at 15:21

Just look at the event viewer for logons?

Angst · 4 Aug 2012 at 15:22

Does the pc have a webcam?

Mason- · 4 Aug 2012 at 15:22

Webcam on when you leave the computer? Will take up HDD space and would mean you have to leave the PC on.

The mouse idea is fine but open to other possibilities for why it moved.

Hxc · 4 Aug 2012 at 15:22

For gmail check the login history in the bottom right corner.

Danthus · 4 Aug 2012 at 15:24

Moonpie2 said:
So like I say. Anyone have any sneaky ideas ?

The should probably split up.

Moonpie2 · 4 Aug 2012 at 15:30

OldCoals said:
The should probably split up.

If this is proved, that may very well happen

Nice idea about the gmail logon history. Totally forgot about that.

I also believe she has a Mac (bleegghh) so does that have an event viewer type application ?

DcD · 4 Aug 2012 at 15:34

Send a few fake dirty emails back and forth on her gmail account with yourself? If her partner is spying that's what they're looking for.

dbmzk1 · 4 Aug 2012 at 15:48

What's she hiding?

4T5 · 4 Aug 2012 at 15:50

Connect the keyboard up to the mains.

TripleT · 4 Aug 2012 at 16:10

must be great to have absolutely no trust in your partner

end it now as there's no point, it won't last.

Moonpie2 · 4 Aug 2012 at 16:19

Well, I'm just here for ideas on extracting fact from suspicion.

Everything else is none of my business. :-)

AHarvey · 4 Aug 2012 at 16:43

Simple idea is to start having a fake email affair with her and see if he reacts

Raumarik · 4 Aug 2012 at 16:54

TripleT said:
must be great to have absolutely no trust in your partner

end it now as there's no point, it won't last.

That's what I was thinking, if she/he can't talk to her partner then they're either incredibly immature and doomed to break up or are having an affair anyway.

djshauny1 · 4 Aug 2012 at 16:56

spector

Chris [BEANS] · 4 Aug 2012 at 17:03

Is she fit?

One · 4 Aug 2012 at 17:09

Halfmad said:
That's what I was thinking, if she/he can't talk to her partner then they're either incredibly immature and doomed to break up or are having an affair anyway.

She's a women and therefore a paranoid nutcase. Chances are her bloke has not even been going near her laptop. If she can find this out without having to accuse him then it will be better.

malfunkshun · 4 Aug 2012 at 17:11

So either she has something to hide and has made her other half suspicious or her other half is a paranoid nutjob?

One · 4 Aug 2012 at 17:12

malfunkshun said:
So either she has something to hide and has made her other half suspicious or her other half is a paranoid nutjob?

Or she is so crazy that she thinks he is paranoid.

RomanNose · 4 Aug 2012 at 17:21

You are doing it wrong if someone can see what you have been up to simply by logging in
What you should do firstly is install truecrypt, this should stop someone reading your hard drive. After that you should install a proper password manager, such as lastpass. If you are super paranoid, use keyfiles as well as passwords. Put the keyfile on a thumbdrive and nobody will have any passwords for any websites without it.