http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20912497 en Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:39:36 EDT Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:39:36 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20936816 jpg366 : Google on pc key logger usb and you will find many products that will record keystrokes.

If all you want to see is urls visited, you can probably set your router to "log" or broadcast that info to logging software on an attached PC. Numerous free ones available.

CacheView products (for IE or Mozilla) can be used to examine cached photos, etc on the PC.

Be aware that if you are discovered in any of this, you will likely drive the "offending" behavior underground, or over to a friend's house.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20936816 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:41:51 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20918228 SoonerAl : You might consider locking your PCs down with some type of parental control software, some ISPs offer free licenses to their customers, or the use of the free SteadyState tool for Vista and XP from Microsoft. Vista also has built-in parental controls. Those type tools allow you to control when a child can log on a PC, what they can do and if they can access the internet.

»www.microsoft.com/windows/produc···ult.mspx

»windowshelp.microsoft.com/window···controls

Obviously you need to only allow normal/restricted users to have limited user accounts that are password protected. Only a select subset of users would have admin permissions and only then with a strong password.

»www.microsoft.com/protect/yourse···ker.mspx

My middle step-son also puts his family PC out in the family room so they (his wife and him) can easily monitor what their kids are doing online.
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MS-MVP Windows – Desktop User Experience]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20918228 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:52:01 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20917992 anon : Yea I know its tricky... Have had chat and explained all. Only thing is there is still some doubt and I want to be sure before making a stink about this. It might be me that is paranoied after all... And I don't want to start blocking sites, pages, etc as he will just go to any other location
Prob the best thing is a key logger of some sort. will look! Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20917992 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:01:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20915463 docrice : While passively monitoring is one solution, it's only a secondary answer since the root cause of the problem lies in your trust of the child's online activities.

So I agree with what others have said - sit down and talk to your kid first. Then perhaps "hub out" (something like an old Netgear DS104) from your router on its outside interface and sniff from there (you can also unbind TCP/IP from the interface you're sniffing on for a bit of added protection on your monitoring system). I say the outside interface because if your kid's machine is connected wirelessly, the traffic won't be visible to the rest of the LAN since the unicast traffic goes directly through the router to the outside. However, the problem with monitoring on the outside interface is that you're more than likely to see a TON of traffic due to all the incoming portscans and other garbage floating in the outside world. On the other hand, you could set up a chained internal network where your AP routes traffic to yet another router which itself connects to the ISP and you can monitor that way, effectively creating two network segments. This kind of gets a bit convoluted, of course, and might be overkill for your needs.

If you only want to see cleartext stuff like AIM, you can always filter based on that or use Wireshark's feature to roll captures into separate files after x amount of time or data buffer fill-up. This assumes, of course, that you know specifically which protocols your kid makes use of.

However, things get a bit tricky if the protocols use encryption (such as encrypted AIM via Trillian). For that, you'd have to install monitoring software directly on the machine your kid is using. You could even go to things like keystroke loggers (hardware or software), but this starts getting into a gray area...

In any case, a setup like this requires you to use the protocol analyzer, and periodically inspect the captures. That's a lot of work.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20915463 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:44:58 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20913827 nwrickert : Buy a separate wireless access point, and buy an old fashioned 10 mb/s ethernet hub (if you can find one - maybe eBay). Connect AP and your computer through the hub. Then all data is shared on the line. Put your ethernet card in promiscuous mode and log all packets - that might need suitable packet sniffing software.

Better have a big disk to store the data, and lots of time to browse through it.

I agree with Anav , that this is the wrong way to supervise your child.
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What I don't want to do is alert him to any changes...
I was thinking of a more real time viewing over wireless connection...
most tools like cain and abel are password viewers or cracks. I would really like to have the option of real time viewing of the traffic. any tool that can translate that and give me real time view?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20913696 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:49:13 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20913427 Anav : You could spend big bucks for the ability to block programs but to see the text as well, not sure if its possible. As I said, the way to solve your problems is not through hardware (well besides pulling the plug). If I was a kid in your family shoes, all I need is access to a PC in another location to talk to strangers........]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20913427 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:05:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20913342 nwrickert : If you can run your own DNS server, turn on logging for DNS requests, and configure the router to use your DNS server, then the DNS request logs will give you a lot of information on what sites are being visited.

Anything beyond that would depend on the router. You would probably need a more highly featured router than you will see on typical home networks.
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AT&T dsl; Westell 327w modem/router; openSuSE 11.0; firefox 3.0.1]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20913342 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:55:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20913220 anon : True.... But just don't want to be to obvious in my "inspection"... Just want to make sure all chats are legit before doing anything!
Can anyone help?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20913220 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:25:30 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20912973 Anav : Sounds like you have bigger problems than simply monitoring.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20912973 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:41:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20912497 anon : newbee question...
Contary to all posts I actually want to monitor all traffic on my WAN. It has all security enabled and I am admin. I control the network.
What I want to know if there is a descreet way of monitoring my 10 YO kids traffic. be it thru the router or thru my pc.
Just saw him chatting to unknowm people. And am really scared of kid molesting...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20912497 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:03:54 EDT