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witterings · 2021-06-16T23:39:30Z

I’m a small company looking for a keylogger for employee’s at work. I would just block sites but I’ve had an instance recently where an employee has made “inappropriate comments” via e-mail to a client who fortunately was very understanding when we took appropriate action and decided not to pursue it any further. Before anybody jumps on the ethical / moral high ground, their employment contract already states that any form of internet usage / digital communication will be monitored … BUT … I’d also go a step further and prior to installing it on their systems would ask them to sign a separate form of consent acknowledging that monitoring software was being installed. My aim is to use it as an absolute deterrent rather than anything else and it means I don’t have to waste time monitoring what they may be doing. I thought I’d test it at home to see which was the easiest to install and set up using a PC and a laptop and have looked at Refog …All In One Keylogger …Best Free keyloggerAnd whilst they offer a free trial I’d go for the paid version longer term if I’m happy it does what it does what I need. All of them so far, either Chrome blocks it as Malware or if you download it which seems easier to do via other browsers, when you get to the install stage antivirus blocks it. I appreciate you can switch off antivirus for this step and then white list the app on the client machines but made me seriously think about whether the software is actually safe on any machine? Whilst I appreciate most can be set not to record passwords etc. but if I can set what reports it forwards to me, there’s no guarantee that the software company isn’t have all the content sent to them including passwords which did raise a concern … or am I being paranoid and they’d cease to exist / lose their living so wouldn’t risk it. Interested in anybody’s input and or other suggestions for alternatives.

jambourgie

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Probably shock rather than hostility. It's pretty damn creepy.

Posted : 17/06/2021 10:39 pm

grahamt1980

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As others have said, in terms of data security and privacy it is a really really bad idea.
Basically if you have any systems with password priveliges and audit trails you introduce enough grey area and deniability to make the security pointless.
Stupid idea overall

Posted : 17/06/2021 11:22 pm

squirrelking

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He was head of SW test as well, partly explains why SW test was so bad, IT illiterate and spent all their time watching films….

Ironing 😂

(I'll give you a starter for ten, Tor is nothing to do with torrenting)

TBH if someone had Tor on a work computer it needn't be anything more sinister than them just wanting to keep personal stuff personal. More so if working internationally. We can't even look up sites about it according to the Web policy as administered by Bluecoat, Norton or whoever it is this year.

Posted : 18/06/2021 12:15 am

RustyNissanPrairie

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We have a large household-name customer you will Deffo have heard of whose policy is that they’re perfectly fine with employees surfing porn on work machines during their lunch break.

Any jobs going there? asking for a friend?.....

Posted : 18/06/2021 12:22 am

Drac

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I still think as long as everybody that works there is absolutely 100% informed it’s happening it’s a massive deterrant and I won’t have to check any logs at all … the pricing of the software would be minimal to increased productivity.

Unhappy staff aren’t very productive, you really need to think about this. Deal with the culprit not everyone.

Posted : 18/06/2021 6:12 am

piemonster

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I still think as long as everybody that works there is absolutely 100% informed it’s happening it’s a massive deterrant

Itll be a massive deterrent to working for you

Posted : 18/06/2021 6:24 am

FuzzyWuzzy

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We can’t even look up sites about it according to the Web policy as administered by Bluecoat, Norton or whoever it is this year.

Could be worse, I can't even access GitHub on my work PC without getting a security exception signed off by my manager and a VP (someone years ago in another country accidentally leaked source code for some of our IP onto it and then it just got blanket banned - only now even MS & VMware store stuff I need to access there).

Posted : 18/06/2021 8:30 am

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