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- From: s_curtis@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Steve Curtis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: How do I stop 3rd party snooping software?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.121730.13547@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 12:17:30 GMT
- References: <1992Dec03.185319.8935@crash> <1992Dec9.103213.27872@csd.uwe.ac.uk> <1992Dec10.173456.577@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Dec10.173456.577@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec9.103213.27872@csd.uwe.ac.uk> s_curtis@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Steve Curtis) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec03.185319.8935@crash> tech@crash.cts.com (Don Bontemps) writes:
- >>>Hello everyone. At my current place of employment, our network analyst has
- >>>installed some 3rd party software that scans your local C: drive across the
- > [ .... ]
- >>On a different note, is there a program that allows you to snoop other peoples
- >>computers without them knowing. The only one I know of is PC Commute which
- >>informs the user, and allows them to reject the caller ?
-
- >The only way for a user to access another users' system is to install a
- >sharing package onto the target system. It may be possible to do this via
- >a login script, but I'm not sure how well it would work. The target user
- >should be able to check for TSRs that weren't loaded from CONFIG.SYS or
- >AUTOEXEC.BAT, but otherwise the only indication would be mysterious disc
- >activity or a slight reduction in throughput.
-
- >Of course, it's always possible to sit down in front of their computer
- >and look at whatever is on there....
-
- ahhh yes, but in a big organisation finding the computer is difficult
- enough ! A nice user managment system is soooo much nicer and easier.
-
- I am still yet to find a freeware / shareware version availible though.
- I was informed that a program named LANHIJAK was availible but I can't
- find it on any ftp sites. If anyone has got a copy of this program,
- apperently the early versions were freeware / shareware I would be most
- grateful if someone could email me a UUE'd copy.
-
- Thanx, Steve.
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