Re: Messenger monitoring

From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:55:54 +0100

Amnon Feiner wrote:

> Does anyone know of a program that will allow me monitoring my kids AOL
> conversations? I need something that can capture and save across the home
> LAN.
>
> TIA

As those conversations are private and most people worry about privacy,
don't think you will find many products which can do that.

There are some corporate products and windows products like e-blaster. I did
a quick google and came up with the following articles among many others:

http://www.spectorsoft.com/products/eBlaster_Windows/entry.asp?refer=4999

Windows based tool for spying on emails, program activity, IM and web
surfing habits of users on other machines in your network. $99.99
introductory offer.

http://arstechnica.com/columns/linux/linux-20051002.ars

Discussion of tracking IM, emails and traffic in general using Ruby and
Pcap. It is technical and a do-it-yourself solution, but all the tools are
free.

There are probably others out there if you refine your googling...

Dave

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