How to Track Movements?

Does anyone know of a good program out their that can track the actions of a user on a pc, such as where or when they have been, internet places they been or what files or folders they opened and programs downloaded and installed. Or is their such a program out their? Just down want to be downloading any freeware software that pops up on the net and it nothing but junk or full of virus.

I don't know about tracking software & I don't believe that we can help with tracking software because of our terms of use.

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I do know that a user on a restricted account cannot install most software on a machine with 2000, XP, or Vista so you might think about having a separate administrator account that is password protected while the rest of the accounts are "limited users." Another advantage of that is that if a virus is downloaded onto that profile because the profile doesn't have administrator's rights it cannot install itself. In addition you can install specialized software like Deep Freeze that prevent unauthorized changes to your computer however you will have to have all of your documents on another drive or partition than the one that the OS is on. Deep Freeze prevents any changes to your operating system while it is enabled by erasing any changes when the system rebooted which is why personal documents have to be elsewhere because if they are on the same partition as windows they won't be saved to the hard drive. Only changes made to the OS when the program is disabled are permanently saved to the hard drive.

I was training in the malware team and do know the tou, guess it I should have been worded a bit differant, was looking for info that may be out their, in general something simple and thats not loaded with spyware if you downloaded it and freeware, just thought by asking if anyone knows a good tool to use. When you google you get hit with all kinds of stuff but do not know what is safe to use. My intent was not to post info on this or any other sites, just for my infomation only as to when the wife or kids play on my system and the kids say we was not online, when trying to clean up the system of virus infections. Cleaning out this system is getting old other than building them a system to play with and let them have it and mess that one up. My bank account, checks and excel files with a database and pictures is too much to lose because of one not telling me the truth. So sorry for posting this.

Jimbo1,

No need to apologize for asking a question.
As Ben T points out, there are some answers that we don't assist with, but you'd never know until you ask.

You have a difficult situation and much more at risk (personal, busines, and financial information) than many would be willing to risk.

Read here about using limited user accounts in XP:
http://forums.whatthetech.com/Limited_User…nts_t88937.html


You may also benefit by placing restrictions with various paid product "Parental Control" utilities.
I have posted elsewhere about this problem. I'll post in the following with an excerpt.
Net Nanny has been recommended by a variety of trusted sources.

Keep in mind, that it is your machine and your choice how to configure and use it.
These are only suggestions of options for you to consider.
Your mileage may vary.

Best Regards

Jimbo,
Here's an excerpt of what I've posted in another off-site location:

Parental Control software may be of some benefit in a few situations, but I have never recommended such.

A determined child will get around software limits, do their internet browsing from school or a friends house, or otherwise defeat digital efforts of parenting.

In my opinion, it is more important for parents to be present and engaged with their children whether the activity is sports, homework, tv, friends or internet activity.

Placing the computer in a family commons location and being readily available when the child is using the machine is a good first step.

Sure. Limit setting and consequences are important tools of parenting.
But both of those tools derive their power and effectiveness from parent-child relationship.

Our children really do want to be successful and an important part of that success for children is having the satisfying experience of receiving the approval, praise and good will of their parents.

Kids really do "want" to behave and please their parents.

Build the "relationship" you have with your child.

* Smile at them as often as possible.
* Greet them when they arrive and when they leave.
* Welcome them in the morning and express your love before they retire to bed.
* Make sure they overhear you and another adult talking about how proud you are of your child's good conduct and learning of new challenges.
* Express interest in your child's activity even after they become better at math than you are.
* Focus more on your child's successes and strengths, than on their short-comings and mistakes.
* Hug your child.

Parents don't have to be "cool" in the eyes of their child.
Parents don't have to constantly outwit their children.
Parents do not have to allow everything their children say they want.
But it is essential for parents to be a solid and consistent source of praise, support and acceptance.

If you accomplish the above first, setting limits and imposing consequences will be much easier and have realistic power and effect.

Would you like to come to my house hehehehehe. but good point. After I finish building the system 7 machine, going to build them one and if they get it infected going to let them do the work of cleaning it up to see what I have to go through. mabey after they have to work and fix the system they may know how to play it safe, aye did some reading on Net Nanny and Web Watcher. Looks to be Net Nanny may be they way at least when you set up passwords to log on to IE, FireFox in a sense you know they are surfing the net, and looks to me it also blocks a lot of the sites you can set the limits to. Going to ponder on that a bit.