HELP! Errant child, spyware needed!

Jaffa.

thomas01155 wrote: »

You could filter social networking sites etc http://www1.k9webprotection.com/

+1 for K9 web protection

stressedofdevon

Thank you everyone so much for your help and understanding.

My daughter is a gifted student and is supposed to be very smart, which makes this all the more shocking that she has been so easily manipulated. She has respected the verbal ban on Bebo, and we have had some very open and honest conversations about the dangers on the web and her exposure to those dangers. However, even though she is aware that we are openly checking her online activity for the moment she has made steps elsewhere and through other people to find the man/boy she had arranged to meet. It therefore is not a matter of blocking sites but monitoring her behaviour, at least in the short term, and with her full knowledge.

Even more concerning is she seems to maybe have been flagged up as potentially vulnerable and there were some naked male pics coming through from chat sites/msn with offers of friendship. While she is not acting in her own interests we are going to need to take tight control right now to prevent a repeat performance. Banning the internet is our short term solution but we will need to allow access gradually for school work and to rebuild the trust too.

This has been such a stark lesson to me - I never thought my intelligent much loved daughter could behave in such a silly and dangerous fashion. I hope anyone with children who reads this just goes and checks on their kids. I never believed in spying, her room is her territory, and she only used a laptop in the lounge so was never isolated while online. What a massive wake up call!

I will certainly be trying some of these suggestions - she does seem to know enough at least to be deleting some basic stuff such as msn conversations but maybe my original idea of keylogging is not so good, sounds like it could leave me open to frauds or viruses and create problems. I think a way of stopping deletion of history and msn chat along with remote monitoring is perhaps our best solution so I will be looking into that in the next few days.

Thanks once again everyone. :A

elvch01

If your daughter is a gifted student, she may well be able to delete MSN history etc, so a product that logs/records keystrokes is the only way to go without blocking access to sites.
As mentioned earlier, I use thnkertex spypal to record all MSN conversations, keystrokes etc. My sister uses K( web protection. I can recommend either

aliEnRIK

A lot of kids these days have got their heads around using free PROXY sites which makes it VERY difficult to catch them out at times

Lakeuk

stressedofdevon wrote: »

However, even though she is aware that we are openly checking her online activity for the moment she has made steps elsewhere and through other people to find the man/boy she had arranged to meet. It therefore is not a matter of blocking sites but monitoring her behaviour, at least in the short term, and with her full knowledge.

You wont be able to monitor anything if she's using a PC you have no control over (ie friends)

Jaffa.

aliEnRIK wrote: »

A lot of kids these days have got their heads around using free PROXY sites which makes it VERY difficult to catch them out at times

K9 blocks proxies for that very reason

aliEnRIK

Jaffa. wrote: »

K9 blocks proxies for that very reason

Cool

Might give it a go on a mates pc where hes having pron problems with his son

[Deleted User]

Jaffa. wrote: »

K9 blocks proxies for that very reason

You can set your own proxy up in less than five minutes with very little IT literacy required. Does it simply blocked known ones, or is it able to identify information being relayed?

aliEnRIK

Hes using sites like these ~
http://www.hidemyass.com/
Would it block them?

thomas01155

Doesn't k9 have special technology to identify certain sites even if there new? Not sure if it does it for new proxies. Yep it blocks most popular proxies like hidemyass.