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Spector Pro is the best key logging software out there, I think. No, I don't work for them....!! I have been using it to find info on my WW, and it's ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! It does screen snap-shots, key strokes typed, myspace, ALL email, IT SHOWS YOU EVERYTHING!! I even have it set to detect key words, and it sends me an email at work as to what she was looking at, and/or forwards me the emails that have the key words...

My WW and her mother have suspected that I have some sort of spyware on there. They had a computer geek come out and install new anti-virus, and anti-spy software. It hasn't found ANYTHING. I also intersepted an email from the same computer geek to my WW saying that he was not able to find anything, and that there was no way that I had any type of "key-logging" software installed...What a moron!!

Happy hunting!!

Folks, if you're interested in tracking your WS, I've found a great solution.

Have a look here:

http://www.mologogo.com

Here's the short story:
* Get a cheap Boostmobile (Nextel prepaid) phone (I bought a Motorola i415 on eBay for $20).
* Activate the Boostmobile service. Make sure to get the data plan (wireless web).
* Get the data cable for the phone (I got one on eBay for $12).
* Download the free software from Mologogo and install the application on the telephone via the cable (lots of detailed instructions on the mologogo website).
* Configure the application per the instructions on the Mologogo website
* Configure the phone to be totally silent. Disable all ringtones, vibration, etc.
* Deploy the phone

What's Good:
* It's cheap! I paid $20 (including shipping) for the phone. The data service costs $0.35/day! You can renew the service over the internet or get cards in a Nextel/Sprint store. No other charges if you're not using the phone.
* It works! Once the phone has a good GPS fix you're in business. I've read that it works in the trunk of a car. Mine worked fine stashed behind a plastic panel where the jack goes.
* It works in real-time. You don't have to retrieve the device and download the locations to a PC. All you have to do is go to the website and you can see where it is right now. The website keeps the 100 most recent locations; by default the phone reports a location every 5 minutes (you can change that).
* You can send the data to somewhere else if you wish. I had mine configured to transmit to a website where a little program scraped the data and put it into a database, so I could keep more than the last 100 points.

What's Bad:
* Battery life. All the activity drains the battery. Messing with the map zoom and the 'stealth mode' will help. Mine never went more than 24 hours without dying. You'll need constant access to the device to bring it in and charge it up each day. You could wire it in to the car's power system if you had time/access. I'd certainly do this if I was using the device for Lojack-like purposes (a lot of mologogo users are doing this).
* Reliability. The mologogo application is a Java app that runs on the phone. Being a Java app, it locks up from time to time. Again, you'll probably want to reboot the phone once a day to keep things running smooth (no prob if you're charging it at night). The mologogo developers are planning a fix in the future that should allow for extended (indefinite?) use as long as power is present.

Bottom line: the price can't be beat and the results are amazing. I wish I had this when my WW was misbehaving - I would have figured things out much sooner!

Pep bumped some old links from the archive and I got this little gem from a very old spying thread therein.

TRASH

If you know where the OP lives and what night is garbage night you may legally be able procure a lot of evidence by snooping through the garbage they leave out at the curb. This may also be a good source of intel if you and your spouse are separated...just get your spouses garbage.

What's great is I believe it's most likely ADMISSABLE in court.

Especially effective if the OP is single. They won't be very careful at all with what they throw away and leave just sittin' at the curb for your taking.

You may get real lucky and trap the OP or your WS in a lie at deposition which you can PROVE. The shock of producing real documented evidence at a deposition in direct contradiction to testimony....priceless.

Mr. Wondering

p.s. - Another situation where you don't want to get caught because if they discover you are or have done this they will use such activity to make YOU appear like a crazed bitter sneaky controlling manipulate betrayed spouse. In fact, to maintain deniability it may be best to get someone else to make the garbage drive by and pick up, if you are lucky enough to have a friend or family member able and wiling to do so.

Is there a way to get a recording device on somebodies person or in lets say a purse without being detected? Just curious if anyone has attempted this.

Anything is possible. Just a much higher probability of getting caught.

Big purse or small?

Normal Digital recorders can be the size of a pen. Keep in mine the smaller the recorder the smaller the batteries.

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right now pretty big bag kinda thing.
This looks interesting:
http://www.pimall.com/nais/microdotaudio.html
kinda $$$ though.

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We had a custody case once a where walk-away mom was living the high-life and partying ALL the time. Our investigator went trash diving one night and lined up all the empty beer and liquor bottles along the curb and video-taped the whole thing. He also got some empty baggies with residue in them. It was great. He also followed her to a local head-shop and filmed her going in empty-handed and coming out with a bag. It proved that she was placing her children in harm's way by allowing them to be around her partying dope-smoking friends. It was ALL admissible.

..Does anyone out there know how to find if any 'spyware' has already been installed on a PC??

I am a BS, but having a BIG issue with trust. Ultiamtely I want to see his internet/email activity. My WH is an IT person and I know has access to software. I cannot install any key loggers onto the machine which would involve backing up and changing registries as all his business is on this PC and I can;t risk deleting/messing anything.

thanks

Jane,

You could buy a hardware keylogger that connects to the back of the CPU between the CPU and the keyboard connector.

Essentially it's a memory stick that tracks keystrokes. It will NOT be detected by software, and does NOT change your registry.

It is not a all telling as the software version. Only records what you type, no screen shots, etc...

LINK: Ghostkey

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I used a small, GPS tracking device from LandAirSea Systems Inc. (www.landairsea.com) to check my WW's journeys against where she said she was going/had been. This revealed an extra stop on one journey of 1 hr 20 mins that she hadn't mentioned and which seemed to conflict with where/when she said she'd had lunch. I informed OMW of the details and we both challenged our respective WSs independently, naming the pub (bar) we thought they might have met at. Both admitted the encounter and both thought they'd been followed and observed but are unsure who arranged this (me or OMW).
The resulting paranoia will, we hope, end these meetings (both have promised NC) - the device stays!
The device has a strong magnet and no external switches. It's waterproof so can be attached under the car where it works adequately. I placed it near the tail-light cluster, behind an access panel where it is hard to spot and gives a very accurate trace (I could see which parking bay she used).
The device records the time, duration and location of all stops plus the route travelled. The data can be displayed as a simple log or superimposed on Google Earth images (or for US use, on a street map). Data is read by removing the device and plugging it into a USB port on a PC.
The device uses 2 x AAA batteries which should last about 2 weeks for good quality ones.

Good job on not revealing your source. It's making me laugh. Imagine how paranoid the two of them must be, thinking someone is following them, looking around, trying to lose them. LOL, I love it.

**edit**

Rewatch those James Bond movies too, and I'm not kidding !!!

I found my info mostly via old school detective work and cell phone records. The old school detective work means people skills and people contact, James Bond again. Ever work in a bar? Restuarant? Then you know people will talk if you get them going. Unbelievable info sourced this way. It's almost stupid as it can be so overlooked. Think James Bond.
Hope this helps.

My Story:
http://www.marriagebuilders.com/ubbt/sho...e=0#Post3275828

http://www.marriagebuilders.com/ubbt/sho...e=0#Post3277549

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I just read that you can send a cell phone in to a company and get deleted text messages. It costs $175. and they will send the phone back the same day. The place is called paraben. Anyone ever tried it?

Believer, That is good to know and makes sense.

I can retrieve lost or deleted photo's from my compact flash card I use with my digital camera.

I will look for cellphone software that can do the same, and post my findings.

-JKT

I would appear the cellphone forensics is a bit more indepth than a memory card, but still doable. Much of the success varies on the type of cellphone.

There are smartphones that run an operating system much like a computer (PDA, Blackberry, etc, iphone). These utilize both simcard and memory cards for storage.

Your normal run of the mill cellphone stores data on the SIM card or internal memory. It's sounds like most recovery success is with phones that store the data on a simcard.

The sim card is much like a memory stick that also stores your cellphone companies data. This is why if your phone dies, and you move your sim to another phone, it now has your phone number, contacts, etc.. And if is the method your phone uses to store data... It will also have your text msgs.

Simcards, much like harddrives, or memory cards, in that when you delete something, it's not really "deleted". It has just make that space available to be written over in the future. Until the portion of the memory has been replaced with new text, the old text remains unchanged, and can be recovered with software.

here is a link to a forum that discusses cellphone forensics.

Text Message Recovery