How to monitor the sites open on particular pc
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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.