Durga,
I recommend using a program called SpyAgent which you can find
at www.computer-monitoring.com/spyagent.htm. This program will be able
to monitor all the popular messenger programs. It also monitors and
allows you to control other activities like file transfers, password
interception, message time-stamp logging, and more. Like any good
monitoring app, you must be prepared for what you might see logged (aka:
passwords, dialogue, etc.). It's something that you have to install on
each of the client machines, but there are clever ways to hide it such
that the users can't tell what it is. A friend of mine just renamed the
.EXE and the program directory and placed it in the
%systemroot%\System32 directory in order to hide it. One other feature
it possesses is password protection. You must enter a password in order
to change options or to stop the service in order to keep "fiddling
fingers" away. Depending on how many users you have, you can just use a
login script to install it silently. According to a friend of mine, it
doesn't work well on XP, but I don't have XP, so I can't verify that.
Supposedly the software is supported on all Windows platforms including
XP. Just check out the link, there are so many things that this
software does. Oh, and the cost of this is about $50. Not cheap, but
how badly do you want to know what your users are up to? Perhaps just
install it on the machines that you believe are more suspect as opposed
to putting it on all machines. Good luck.
(Damn, you'd think I worked for the company by the way I pitched that
software, huh?)
Virtually,
MarC Eiler
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MSN & Yahoo messengers
Hi folks
my customer wants to log the usage / login/logout timings etc of MSN &
Yahoo
messengers.
also the text being sent if possible.
how do i log that. through a passive listening station.
we have a hardware based proxy (NAT device d-link ) no software based
proxy.
not possible to implement.
regards
durga prasad
