Spy Software

[[GSV]Trig]

Need to spy on a machine at work to collect evidence on a users activity.
Something like Sub7 but legit lol...
Needs to be invisible, ie no taskbar icon.

[zulander]

Major Geeks have a whole host of those kind of things not sure what tho

[Paul Adams]

Need to spy on a machine at work to collect evidence on a users activity.
Something like Sub7 but legit lol...
Needs to be invisible, ie no taskbar icon.

Check with your legal & personnel departments before doing anything like this, it's very shaky ground and the user might have had to have signed a document permitting this.

[[GSV]Trig]

people dont sign things in our place, not yet, thats next years big project, all the nice IT policies and practices...

[Paul Adams]

people dont sign things in our place, not yet, thats next years big project, all the nice IT policies and practices...

Then I think you may find you can be sued horribly if you try to apply disclipinary procedures on evidence obtained without their knowledge or consent - and even if you don't, if it is discovered that you did so then you could be in trouble too.

[madman045]

Already do this at one of my clients, catch me on MSN when you can Trig.

Paul is right in some ways, however this client has already sacked one member of staff due to them spending their days on ebay!!

[GDVS]

Paul is right in some ways, however this client has already sacked one member of staff due to them spending their days on ebay!!

Why do you need spy software for this? Surely a proxy log is enough for that (and wouldn't get you in any legal trouble).

True story: I used to work for a massive pub chain and we were all reminded that we had to follow official procedures for any form of disciplinary. This was in the wake of a tribunal the company lost when they caught someone nicking from the till and sacked him on the spot. He went to tribunal because the disciplinary procedure wasn't followed (suspend/investigate/interview/dismiss) and won.

The moral: Bend the rules and you'll lose, if you want to sack someone you need to be whiter than white.

[XA04]

There's nothing illegal about sub7, it's just people use it for malicious behaviour. If you find any other software for what your looking for, one way or another it will be seen as legal or illegal. The software your looking for can be used malicously anyway - no matter what name it has.

BO2K is a very good tool for remote administration, very customizeable. Pain in the arse setting it up though, so it's worth a look through the documents.