Hello,<BR>I need to know if any of you have winguardian and if you do, is it detectable?<P>Will this record actual text on a computer? My friend is trying to discover the conversations his w is involved in on the net.<P>She deletes everything and he is desperate. Her favorite place is talk city and they provide you with an e-mail address there so she can easily hide stuff. Any ideas? She's took him for a real ride and run him financially in the ground.

As I understand it winguardian is an open survelance system. It is designed for use by companies and parents to let users know that whatever they do will be monitored and therefore prevent illicit activities. There are other, more hidden programs.<P>I am a bit curious, why are you so concerned with your friend's wife's activities? Why is he talking to you about this instead of her? Is this consonant with the MB concepts?<P>

Hanora,<BR>His w has some pretty serious emotional problems. He has come to my h and I out of sheer desperation. She has proven to be volatile and act irrationally at times and he is fearful for his children safety. He is not seeking a divorce he is just needing tofind out where she is and what she is up to. She also has a problem with money as well as affairs. She had stolen 10K before and he bailed her out and she continues in a pattern of outrageous spending habits. Run him indebt on several occassions and he trying to seek help without upsetting her. If he confronts her directly he knows he will not get the truth. <P>That is why he is talking to us about it. I have encouraged him to get her help but he says she (and I know them bothvery well) goes absolutely crazy. I know some of the things she has went through and her behavioral problems do need professional help. He just needs to know where things are at right now. He is absolutely devasted. In case you're wondering I have shared the MB site with him and at this point his world is too shaken for him to consider anything. Don't know what else to try but I am open to suggestions. It's pretty hard to turn someone away who is obviously broken. I would not involve myself at all if I didn't know about her psychological problems.

Ok, there is a program called, I think,<BR>Spector. Or you can do a search on "keylogger" in any of the search engines.<BR>There are others. Mostly they are hidden in windows, but can be found through DOS. These programs can be set to sort of take pictures of what's happening on the computer at intervals of your choosing.<P>I got a bit of very good advice that you should consider passing on to your friend.<BR>"Be sure that you are able to handle what you find."<P>It sounds like the woman needs professional help and quickly. Hope things go well for him and for you.

I have used a program called Stealth Activity Monitor (SAM) for a very long time. No one who uses that computer knows it is up and running all the time

Sorry Tessa, I blew it on the search phrase. I should have said "keystroke<BR>logger". There are several products out there.

Thanks guys. I really appreciate it! Tess