Silently monitor someones computer

I thought most companies' IT usage policy (if they have one) usually states that employee's communications and general usage can be monitored.
 
ODS Client is something I seem to remember. You need to install it on the PC but it is hidden and records everything like screenshots, key logs etc. You can then map to the PC and view the files.
 
Search for "NetOP Remote Control"

It was used in our schools for monitoring suspected pupils of using the IT facilities for means other than educational...

You can silently install the software on the persons computer and have it run invisibly, then connect to the IP address of that computer on the network to view what is going on on their screen.

Not only can you view what they are doing, you can opt to take control of the computer totally (even lock them out if you wish). For example, a kid was playing a flash game they took control, opened MS Word and started having a conversation about how to use the computer room...It scared the hell out of the kid, he was like: wtf is going on my computer is alive!

I had the oppertunity to use this software and it is extremely easy to set up and use. However, I'm not sure on cost.
 
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There are a number of laws which cover the surveillance of workers. They are:-

*Data Protection Act 1998 and the accompanying Employment Practices Data Protection Code - part 3 - Monitoring at Work
*Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the associated regulations - the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000, known as the Lawful Business Practice Regulations (LBPR)
*common law of confidence
*Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights as incorporated into the Human Rights Act 1998.


The law on surveillance of workers is complicated because there are four pieces of law which cover it and these laws overlap with each other. In any particular case, more than one piece of law may be relevant. In addition there have been few cases dealing with surveillance of workers which might clarify how the different laws work together. A worker may have a number of options about how to pursue a complaint about surveillance at work
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bledd. said:
dameware
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^^^

Thats what our company uses. In the recent past, a user was watching movies and downloading mp3's in work time (a member of the IT staff saw it on his monitor when he was walking past). He was warned by a member of the IT department to stop it, and told that we would be monitoring him. He was then caught watching porn movies. Once again, he was warned to stop it.

The third time it happened, he was watching animal porn (some people :rolleyes: ). We used Dameware and remotely watched his terminal and called over his manager. She wasnt impressed and instant dismissal followed.

Job done :D
 
Bolly said:
Sorry for the late reply

There are a number of laws which cover the surveillance of workers. They are:-

*Data Protection Act 1998 and the accompanying Employment Practices Data Protection Code - part 3 - Monitoring at Work
*Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the associated regulations - the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000, known as the Lawful Business Practice Regulations (LBPR)
*common law of confidence
*Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights as incorporated into the Human Rights Act 1998.
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I thought there would be legal implications on this subject. We track our company vehicles but have to get a signed disclaimer from the driver giving permission (think its down to euro human rights).
 
When you connect to a machine via vnc, the system tray icon changes to alert the user that there is a remote connection, however, there is a registry key that can be used to hide the vnc icon, or change its icons so that is shows the same for monitored or unmonitored, thus there is no give away that somebody is remotly veiwing your work...

Copied from another forum:-

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3,
"DisableTrayIcon"=dword:00000001

An alternative and more drastic measure to prevent the VNC
icon from appearing in the system tray is to modify the
a registry entry specific to Windows itself. Making a mistake
in here could prevent Windows from ever working correctly again,
so please beware.

If VNC is running as a service, you can remove its service helper
key from the Windows registry. That is, via regedit, remove the
"WinVNC" value which can be found in one of these:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
or
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
or
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Again, this is very risky. But it should work.

The third method of "hiding" the VNC tray icon requires some
developers tools: using a resource editor, modify the WinVNC
icon so that it will show the same icon both before and after
a client is connected.

Thanks to Michael Roland for the contribution!
 
buzzby said:
I work for a company and some of my job role is to deal with the internal network.

We have a user that is supected of doing very little work.

I need to know if there is some monitoring software that will aloww me to record/view his computer without his knowledge.

It also need to be installed silently.

Is this possiable.

There is no breach in his privacy as it is all company property and on company time.
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You might need a hanky for that brown stuff on ya nose!
 
If your company use sms to deploy software etc use the remote control function to watch a pc.

Gain, reg keys can be fuddled to hide the icons and get round asking the user for permisiion etc.

Howver I am in the camp that says this isn't the way to go about this situation :)

If he is doing enough work to get by then by definition he is doing enough to fulfill his job role. If they are expecting more of him does he know this? Is it documented etc?
 
I was recommended a similar idea of a program a year or so ago on these forums, and it did look impressive but I ended up not having to go forward with using it. (Can't remember the name of the software). But part of the licence agreement of this particular software was that all users of computers who were to be monitored had to be made aware that their company would be using 'some form' of staff computer monitoring. So that if a user was caught, they could not claim that they weren't aware of some monitoring that was put in place beforehand.
 
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