Someone is spying on my computer

spighita

Hello;

I work for a company and just not long ago I found out that someone turns on my computer saturdays and sundays.

But the odd thing is that working hours are from M-F from 8 to 5.

The last login was Sunday at 10:30 pm.
I also checked a co-workers computer and she had a login at 11:15 pm.

I can tell because some events are logged in in the event viewer. The person who turns them on doesn't know that.

I would like to know what does this person does to the computer.
I think this person looks at the history files in the web-browser. I honestly don't know who would have a life going to work at 10:00 pm to snoop around on other people's computer.

Mordecai

Time to have some FUN!

Fill your history up with weird stuff. Nothing that'll get you fired of course (Farm Sluts--perhaps not what you think 😉), just weird stuff. Perhaps loads of info on time machines and the like.

Then just start moving everything around in an attempt to confuse them. Perhaps a background where the icons are in the image--then just hide the icons. Always a good thing to freak people out. 🙂

goldbug

Are you sure it's not just an automated audit set up by your IT manager? (assuming you have one)

RossC0

Perhaps - someone at your work is using your PC to SPAM the world!

You could always ask your IT department, say your worried about security - see what they say..

spighita

The designer and me are the IT. But when I showed it to him he was suprised too.

I was planning to install a key logging program.

and see what they do. As of now I can only tell if that person opens IE or Firefox.

But it stinks feeling that someone is snooping in other people's computer.

I think its management who is doing it, but with what purpose and on Sundays!!!!

Weedpacket

Originally posted by spighita
I think its management who is doing it, but with what purpose and on Sundays!!!!

Well they can't do it M-F 8-5 for obvious reasons..... They're looking for pr0n, of course!

I would have considered the cleaners doing a bit of illicit surfing, but (a) I don't know if your cleaners work on Sunday, and (b) their usage would show up in the browser history, and (c) the cleaners shouldn't be able to use the computer in the first place!

Huuggee

One way of having some fun with this is to stop them before they even log onto your machine.

all you need is a little program to sit in the mbr that throws up a dos prompt saying your hard-drive is missing or corrupt.

I know some encryption software that does this, you tap in some passwords and your in, but to anyone else, they may think that your machine is not too healthy!!

dalecosp

Originally posted by spighita
Hello;

I work for a company and just not long ago I found out that someone turns on my computer saturdays and sundays.

But the odd thing is that working hours are from M-F from 8 to 5.

The last login was Sunday at 10:30 pm.
I also checked a co-workers computer and she had a login at 11:15 pm.

I can tell because some events are logged in in the event viewer. The person who turns them on doesn't know that.

I would like to know what does this person does to the computer.
I think this person looks at the history files in the web-browser. I honestly don't know who would have a life going to work at 10:00 pm to snoop around on other people's computer.

Umm, you've never heard of passwords?

spighita

Umm, you've never heard of passwords?

To begin with, this person keeps a list of all passwords of every employee in the company.
What good is the password if it is not personal?

Weedpacket

Originally posted by spighita
To begin with, this person keeps a list of all passwords of every employee in the company.
What good is the password if it is not personal?

It's on the employees' accounts, and not some administrator account?

Here's an idea: change your password and see if that stops it.

LordShryku

I'm not exactly keen on most keylogger programs really, and I've heard stories of people getting fired for installing keyloggers. You may want to get this cleared before doing it. Past that, I'd suggest something like this instead of a program. Assuming whoever this is knows what they're doing, they can usually turn off a program just by killing the process. Should also let you know if this is a remote connection or local.

But I'd also think the question would be who is doing this. If you find that it's local, you can setup a cheap webcam with motion detection to find out who.

Or if the idea is simply to get them to stop, just a little bluff usually does the trick. Setup a small batch script or something to run in the startup folder that opens a message simply saying "Hi! You're being watched 🙂"

dalecosp

Originally posted by spighita
To begin with, this person keeps a list of all passwords of every employee in the company.
What good is the password if it is not personal?

True enough. One thing I'd be doing on that computer, then, is typing my resume ....

Does your computer have to be on 24/7? Set a password on the BIOS so it can't boot without it, and then leave it off.

"Someone" would have to admit that they're spying on you when they couldn't boot your system, I'd think.

Of course, you may want to consider many things before going to this extreme....

tekky

Nifty tool Shryku... might have to get me one of those for work... hehe

LordShryku

I've had one for a while. While it's never been a "someone's spying on me" situation, it's made for some very funny conversations with friends who've used my computer 😃

tekky

oh fudge, I just realized all our pcs back home are USB keyboards I think... :glare: maybe some of them arent... I would certainly have fun with it back home :p hehe

pohopo

setup a little motion sensor camera and catch the culprit in the act. we had some stealing going on in my past job and that is what they did and sure enough the loser did it again and was fired.

BuzzLY

My guess: Quake/Counterstrike players. 😉

spighita

It happened again!

I asked the designer if somehow the server would turn on my computer and then turn it off. He doesn't think so.

So what I did is I left my phone cord close to the mouse and if someone wants to use it, he would have to move something I left on purpose.

I'll see monday when I get back to work.

BuzzLY

well?

spighita

Nothing happened.
No one login during the weekend. Everything was how I left it, and no events are registered.

I'm starting to think maybe, I dont know if it is possible but that the server turns some computers on and turns them off.

Is that possible?

Does anyone experience this at your work place because honestly this does not make you feel good and makes you want to leave.

Buzzly, i had to wait til I got home to send this, sending it could have caught this thread and probably put me in some type of trouble.