If you work in an office with other work colleagues, if you use the computer in an environment where there are other people, as well as at home, instead of locking Windows with the password, you can leave it open and available and let it be used by others, spying on them. At the same time, if you use a computer shared with other people or if you suspect that an outsider (colleague or family member) has access to your computer without permission, you can certainly spy on his activity precisely and know what he does.
At a more advanced level, moreover, when two or more people work with their personal computers, at the same desk or even at home or in the same office, they most likely connect to the same router, using the same internet connection.
This means that the PCs are connected to the network and can be seen between them .
In some cases it may be easier than it seems to check and spy on the activities of the desk neighbor or colleague who works, perhaps, even in the next room, seeing what he does and what he reads on the computer.
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Among the "easy-to-use" tools there are some small programs that can be used quite easily to monitor the activities of your PC and, under certain conditions, also to control other PCs on the network, such as that of the desk next to it.
1) The easiest way, but also the one to pay more attention to, to spy on a PC is with a program that records the keys pressed to the computer.
This type of program works as if you put a microphone with a tape recorder at home to find out what is said between two people in my absence.
In this case what is recorded is all that is written on the keyboard .
If you wanted to control another computer, you would still have to manually install the program by having physical access to that computer also because I don't think anyone gets persuaded to be spied on.
All software of this type can be hidden on the PC and remain running, by registering the keyboard, without being noticed.
However, the fact remains that all or almost all of these programs are caught by antivirus and antimalware so you will also need to remove them from the quarantine and tell the antivirus to ignore the program.
AllInOne is a paid program, but it can be downloaded for free for a 7-day trial, which not only captures keystrokes on the keyboard but also has advanced options for sending recordings via email and also for recording sounds.
Such programs are not illegal, it always depends on the use that is made of them: if you want to check who uses my PC without permission it is an account, if instead you want to spy on another person without his permission, then you fall into the crime computer scientist.
2) A new program to see how your computer is used and also to monitor other PCs on the network is SurveilStar Activity Monitor .
This software must be installed on the PC to be checked, which can be that of a family member at home or a work colleague.
It is used to check how the internet is used by another computer, monitor it and, if necessary, also block some sites so that they cannot be viewed.
This program works through the sniffing driver for Windows WinPCap and, as it is installed manually on the monitored computer, it captures all the information on the visited sites, e-mails and file transfers.
SurveliStar Activity Monitor is free for personal use and is a regular program, which is not blocked by antivirus.
3) Always to spy on those who use their PC and record everything they do, you can use Blackbox Security that I had described in a previous article on how to control other computers on the network.
The program always remains to be installed manually on the PC to be spied or checked, however it does not show up, remains hidden, is not caught by antiviruses and is able to send recordings via email.
The same type of program is Spy Screen mentioned in the post on how to spy and record the activities of a computer.
An idea to transfer these programs to the target control PCs, without using USB sticks, are online hard drives such as Dropbox or, better yet, like Box.net that can be used without installing clients, therefore without leaving traces.
4) iSpy instead is one of those programs to automatically record from microphone and webcam .
In this case we move to an advanced level of control because we want to record the audio of what is said in a room and also the video of what happens.
After configuring the program, with absolute ease, you can go away and let it record all the movements recorded by the webcam.
Programs such as iSpy or even Yawcam record only when motion is detected and iSpy also allows you to manage and watch videos recorded by other computers.
5) Keylogger programs for Windows are used to record in a text file all the keys pressed on the keyboard during the period in which the surveillance is active.
These are programs to spy on the PC everything that is written, including passwords and messages.
6) Described in another article, Spyrix is a program to spy on the computer by recording images and keys typed during its use.
7) As written in a previous article, if you want to try to see how neighbors in the office or at the desk surf the internet, inside an internal network, without risking being caught and without leaving traces of program installations, you must use the tools to sniff internet traffic in a network of PCs explained in another post.
The tools above provide a complete package for monitoring your PC.
You can find out what has been typed, which sites have been visited, which files have been downloaded and which emails have been sent.
You can also see what is happening in front of your computer remotely via the webcam (even if, on those integrated in the monitors, the little lamp always lights up).
