"Wolfgang Draxinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > jack trades wrote: > > > Honestly I never even thought of that, it just sounded like a > > fun, and easy, > > project to put my mediocre programming skills to some use. > > However his main concern is internet predators (too much > > Dateline I think) not porn, I should > > have worded it differently in the OP. > > Technically I would not use a keylogger for this. Your > implementation can be circumvented easyly anyway, and every > spyware detection tool will report the hooks immediately. > However I think that tool could do nicely for application > documentation :-) > > To protect the children from predators I'd use transparent > proxies, to analyze all textual traffic for specific statistical > patters, kinda like a Bayes Spam filter, and raise an alarm as > soon something unusual, eventually in combination with some > keywords happens. > > This includes majorly 3 protocols: HTTP, SMTP and IRC. e-mails > should be prefiltered anyway, alone for all the spam. > > Such a system is best installed on a dedicated machine, e.g. a > Linux based router/gateway, that transparently sends all HTTP, > SMTP and IRC traffic through the analyzers. This cannot be > circumvented, as long the kids don't know the root password for > the gateway. > > If you're still up on making screenshots, I'd recommend to > install a VNC deamon, as a _system service_(!), to which the > alarm action program connects to make screenshots. > > Wolfgang Draxinger > -- > E-Mail address works, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ: 134682867
Thanks for the suggestion. I can't believe I didn't think of this. I just installed Kubuntu on one of his old computers (I'm trying to get him to convert to Linux :) and this would work perfectly, especially since I don't really expect him to use the linux box. Trying to get a Windoze user to switch to linux is like pulling teeth. Jack Trades -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
