Re: Computer monitoring programs

From: Walter Roberson (roberson@ibd.nrc.ca)
Date: 06/28/02 

From: roberson@ibd.nrc.ca (Walter Roberson)
Date: 28 Jun 2002 15:12:33 GMT

In article <e7b1d65f.0206280418.25356e43@posting.google.com>,
Tania Gobeil <gobeil_tania@hotmail.com> wrote:
:Thanks for the detailed answer. But I guess my questions were pretty
:vague because what I want to know is how to find out if MY computer is
:being monitored, at work. I have a few reasons to suspect it is and
:many reasons to be against it.

:I have a solemn promise from my boss that my computer isn't being
:monitored, but then a lot of weird things happen when I use Internet
:Explorer or Outlook.

In what way is the behaviour you are seeing distinguishable
from the standard abnormal behaviour of IE and Outlook?

It would be a pretty clumsy monitoring program that noticably
interfered with the computer; and if you were under hardware
monitoring, it would be *very* difficult for detect.

I don't mean to sound dismissive, but my first guess would be
that you have Just Another Windows Problem (probably requiring
reinstallation to fix); my second guess would be that your
system is overheating and needs to have the dust blown out of it
and it moved away from the wall a bit and the papers etc. next to it
moved further away.

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