How to monitor the sites open on particular pc
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d@nish wrote:
Sorry, but I don't care
You should, actually; you could get into a heap o' trouble if you aid someone who is breaking the law.
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Not in this regard, you have to know before-hand that you are contributing to a malicious cause, in this case this type of functionality could very well be justified. Either way I wouldn't help, but you can't say something like that without justifiable reason behind it. Otherwise you are just fear-mongering.
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Actually there is a client, he wants to monitor all the web request, he don't wants to go on particular machine but he wants to receive an email containing that URI/URLs. it is totally new task for me and i thought that code project family member can do everything that's why i need your help. so tell me is it possible by vb.net programming or not. Thanks
So your client doesn't know how to use his proxy server, can't be bothered to look in the help, and you have agreed to provide him with something he already has. Monitoring this on each PC is insane when there are already server logs and reporting built in to all proxy server software to give him the information he wants. Or does you client have every machine in the office separately connected to their own individual internet connections? This is a basic network administration task not a programming exercise. Plus of course while you can monitor browser activity and send the visited URL list to someone, that is definitely Hacker territory. Such software exists already and are known as trojan horse viruses, malware etc.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
This has more than a wiff of malicious software
I don't get that point. How can reading internet history or the current url be malicious? I dont see any extremely important data in URLs which needs to be secured from others. If it was the case, why keep it in url in first place.
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Interesting Article on this E-mail-monitoring-may-contravene-European-laws[]. From what I have read, here in Europe, where I am an app on the PC monitoring and reporting internet usage would be in breach of European human rights legislation unless there was a company policy previously in place and enforced stating that the internet cannot be used from company machines for personal use, and that all traffic will be monitored to log business usage (which is lawful). So, what is the purpose of a monitoring application, to enforce the company policy or to check what people are viewing? Enforcing policy would be better done by regulating site access on the proxy server, and checking usage is also best done there even when illegal. So my read on this is that anyone installing software (or writing software for installation) on an end user PC for the purpose of reporting on their internet usage is very likely acting in breach of European law, if that is where the software is used. Seeing as we had a high profile case of a British Hacker being extradited to the U.S. for contravening their laws (not British law where he lived) there is no way I would get involved in something like this, and I would advise anyone else to stay well away. You just don't know where the software will end up with your name on it.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850) www.JacksonSoft.co.uk
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Not in this regard, you have to know before-hand that you are contributing to a malicious cause, in this case this type of functionality could very well be justified. Either way I wouldn't help, but you can't say something like that without justifiable reason behind it. Otherwise you are just fear-mongering.
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EliottA wrote:
you have to know before-hand that you are contributing to a malicious cause
It's not that black and white; if the client is a internet-cafe, then he/she might not be aware of the implications of tracking personal data. It's their computers, it's their data. Right? The client might not even have a malicious intent, and still ask you to break the law. Most of us won't be sure whether it's being broken, as an engineer isn't a lawyer. Does that mean that we can thread any law, just because we don't know them? If this is seen as mongering, then please, do accept my apologies. It's not like I just wanted to troll around and spread some paranoia; I just stumbled over an "I don't care" and tried to point out that there's a risk in simply shrugging your shoulders.
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d@nish wrote:
Sorry, but I don't care
You should, actually; you could get into a heap o' trouble if you aid someone who is breaking the law.
I are Troll :suss:
It is not in relation to what OP is asking. I said that for Mycroft saying that he would apologize if he was wrong about OP's intentions. I really don't care if he does that or doesn't. He had an opinion, told that to OP. What's wrong in it? I had different opinion, so I gave a different reply.
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My problem is that i want to know the web sites open in my network's pc so that i could monitor all the web site open on that computer. i want to develop a desktop application that will be install on each machine and will keep the url information and at particular time it will send an email containing all the requested URLs. Please help and guide me.
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A key logger does nothing in this case. Sure, you can get a URL, but you cannot use the content of a site and classify it.
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Sumit Prakash Sharma wrote:
Actually there is a client
here's the crux of it coming....
Sumit Prakash Sharma wrote:
it is totally new task for me
... won a contract but doesn't know how.... So try google, there should be something there
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Actually i don't take contract for this task, i want to reply him that it is possible or not. if possible then i will take contract from him.
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So your client doesn't know how to use his proxy server, can't be bothered to look in the help, and you have agreed to provide him with something he already has. Monitoring this on each PC is insane when there are already server logs and reporting built in to all proxy server software to give him the information he wants. Or does you client have every machine in the office separately connected to their own individual internet connections? This is a basic network administration task not a programming exercise. Plus of course while you can monitor browser activity and send the visited URL list to someone, that is definitely Hacker territory. Such software exists already and are known as trojan horse viruses, malware etc.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850) www.JacksonSoft.co.uk
Thanks for your kind reply
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Interesting Article on this E-mail-monitoring-may-contravene-European-laws[]. From what I have read, here in Europe, where I am an app on the PC monitoring and reporting internet usage would be in breach of European human rights legislation unless there was a company policy previously in place and enforced stating that the internet cannot be used from company machines for personal use, and that all traffic will be monitored to log business usage (which is lawful). So, what is the purpose of a monitoring application, to enforce the company policy or to check what people are viewing? Enforcing policy would be better done by regulating site access on the proxy server, and checking usage is also best done there even when illegal. So my read on this is that anyone installing software (or writing software for installation) on an end user PC for the purpose of reporting on their internet usage is very likely acting in breach of European law, if that is where the software is used. Seeing as we had a high profile case of a British Hacker being extradited to the U.S. for contravening their laws (not British law where he lived) there is no way I would get involved in something like this, and I would advise anyone else to stay well away. You just don't know where the software will end up with your name on it.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850) www.JacksonSoft.co.uk
Thanks for reply After consulting with cliet, when i told him that this is against human rights. he said to me that he wants to know only domain names not full URL with query data. he wants to know the domain names like songs.pk, mp3pk.com, yahoo.com, youtube.com etc atcually he told his employees not to use unnecessary sites at working time because it effects the work. after long waiting he decide to get such application that could tell him about the domain names opened on particular system. when he check out at the server he get all the url requested and found that employee open youtube.com and watch the vedio at working time. so he wants to stop that particular employee. thats why he wants to get this application.