I think my parents are spying on me.

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backseatgunner

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My dad keeps telling me how he can read my myspace messages and spy on me. Can anyone tell me how i could find out if hes running any background programs and if he could actually get into my myspace account?

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jancz3rt

jancz3rt

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No offense

I think parents should back off sometimes. Why should they spy on you? I know they are worried about kids accessing information that would not normally be accessible, but by restricting them, they make them want to resist. Anyway, the best way to check, although some programs are smart, is to CTRL+ALT+DEL and check whether any unknown processses are running. A HJT log would be good. As well as that, clear all your possible histories and so on in IE or Mozilla FF. Good luck.

Keep in mind that if your dad uses a keylogger and so on, even you writing what you did here can be seen by him.

JAN :D
 
spacedude89

spacedude89

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yea, its probley a keylogger or your just forgetting to empty the cache and deleting the cookies. also, whenever you login to a site, make sure you select dont save password or that your using a public computer.

ofcourse he could be making it all up ;)
 
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cell4me

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Antispyware programs should pick up a keylogger. Run spybot and ewido I will post links at the bottom. Once you are sure there are no keyloggers on the computer go into you myspace account and change your password and everytime you are done using the computer run ccleaner I will post a link for that as well...and then tell pops (GOOD LUCK) trying to get in...I despise people who invade other peoples privacy parents or not!

http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html

http://www.ewido.net/en/

http://www.ccleaner.com/

These are your tools for freedom kid :D
 
Sacred Silence_06

Sacred Silence_06

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cc cleaner is a legendary program, it bascically wipes out all the evidence of the things you have viewed on the pc, and all the web pages history, as well as cookies.
 
Scrat

Scrat

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after checking for keyloggers(also check for the "Hardware" style loggers). then i would suggest that you change the options in Messenger(if you use it) so that it does not AUTO login.
Also under the options menu on the MySpace you page you can change the viewing permissions of your "MySpace", and make it so that only Selected people(hotmail accounts) can see it. The default is set so that anyone browses through the "MySpace" website can see your page.
 
age123

age123

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compuserve said:
take the harddrive out of your computer and keep it with you that should keep your dad off track
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Yea but then he cant uses his pc and i would die without my pc
 
age123

age123

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Yes and put the other on slave and move all data like music and pics ect and formate the drive then and use it as storage
 
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compuserve

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or you could invest in an inexpensve packard bell legend 486 computer they come with a 25MHz prosessor,up to 16 Mb of ram,512k onboard video card high quality ISA soundcard,14.4Kbps modem dual speed cdrom drive,a hefty 120Mb harddrive,75 watt p/s 13" stylish packard bell monitor,keybard,mouse and windows 3.x
 
spacedude89

spacedude89

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compuserve said:
or you could invest in an inexpensve packard bell legend 486 computer they come with a 25MHz prosessor,up to 16 Mb of ram,512k onboard video card high quality ISA soundcard,14.4Kbps modem dual speed cdrom drive,a hefty 120Mb harddrive,75 watt p/s 13" stylish packard bell monitor,keybard,mouse and windows 3.x
Click to expand...

DOS? most people dont know how to use DOS, Perfect!
 
Rambo

Rambo

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What I would do is get a new HDD and install Windows on it. Then when you want privacy, just hook up the cables to it, and use it :) When he goes back to check what you've been going on, make sure that your new HDD has the cable out, so it boots up the normal drive. Or, better, install a drive/partition manager which pops up when you boot, so you can select.

:)
 
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Jerkstore

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or you could just stop looking at porn and doing other stupid things on your families computer.

If it's a keylogger then there will be a suspicious process running (yes I'm well aware that many processes are hidden....but I also know ways to view those hidden processes)
Otherwise, there are hundreds of programs on download.com that do everything you want. Some are free, some are shareware, some are trials.

That HDD idea has to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard....what a waste of time and money. All it takes is some detective skills to find out how/if he's spying on you in the first place...perhaps it's for a reason!?
 
mrjack

mrjack

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One kid wrote on the internet about a program that was running on computer which basically enabled his parents to see on their monitor what the kid was viewing on his monitor. They had every computer hooked up of course for that to be possible. He then found out about it and went in to Notepad when he was certain one of his parents was "checking" on what he was doing. He then wrote in Notepad the following:

"Somebody is peaking, they're watching."

The program "somehow" got closed shortly after that. :p
 
LaptopExtreme

LaptopExtreme

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It could be that your parents are that spy-savvy. They may just created a dummy profile on MySpace and read what you've been writing on your friends comments, blogs, and stuff. Lets say you told your parents that you were going to the library and took the car. The next day, one of your dumb buddies wrote "dude, I saw you threw up a s**tload at that party last night" or "Man, it was fun off roading in your mom's car". It kinda seals your fate there. :rolleyes:

Blog entries too, just like a diary, can also seal your fate. Some will write crap like "oh damn, I shouldn't have slept with those 3 guys" or "oh no, I've missed my period". :p
 
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