Need Help

[Tiger6]

There has been a rash of teenagers in the area being sexually solicited over e-mail. I would like to know if anyone has knowledge of a program that would let me check my childrens's e-mail. I am using Windows XP. so my kids have their own accounts. Appreciate any info you can give me. Semper Fi.

[Tiger6]

There has been a rash of teenagers in the area being sexually solicited over e-mail. I would like to know if anyone has knowledge of a program that would let me check my childrens's e-mail. I am using Windows XP. so my kids have their own accounts. Appreciate any info you can give me. Semper Fi.

[groanup]

Try Big-O Software. I think it is just for AOL but it may have some links. The name of the AOL instant messenger version is AIM+.

[Texas_Jarhead]

How do they access e-mail? DO they have web based e-mail like yahoo or excite or do they use Outlook express or some similar program?

[thatsnotnice]

I am using Windows XP. so my kids have their own accounts.

They have their own account on that physical home computer? Or they each have their own dial-up (cable, DSL, whatever) account?

With my dial-up account I am the primary account holder. I can set up mailboxes for other family members through my ISP, but I am the one that has to do it. Therefore I know the username/passwords I used to set them up. I just set my email (outlook express, which isn’t really my favorite) to collect my email (deleting it from the server) and collect the other users email (without deleting it from the server).

In this case, all three users are actually me but it should work for anyone… assuming you have a similar setup.

[Dave_in_Upland]

If you are using Netscape you can use Wordpad by opening it and then using the Open command and go to C ProgramFiles Netscape User and the users name Mail and then click on the relevent file. Make sure that the file type is set for *.*

[Hank Kerchief]

You can take a look at I am Big Brother

Here's the blurb:

IamBigBrother will monitor your family in Instant Messages, Chats, Emails, Web Site URLs and much more while undetected from the user. A parent cannot be watching their child the whole time so let IamBigBrother monitor what they say online. Not only do you see what your child types online but what is said back as well. It monitors both incoming and outgoing activity - no other program offers this feature!

If you use it or like it, I would be interested in your opinion.

Hank

[I_Love_My_Husband]

DH says to get spyware for your computer. He's checking right now as we speak. Ok...he found something Codename Alvin-PC Super Spy Software 2.2. What you should do is go to www.versiontracker.com and also downloads.com and put in "spyware" to the search function. He found something else IIPwr Package. Good luck!

[I_Love_My_Husband]

He just found something else that's shareware Intraspy. He said to go to versiontracker.com and put in "spy" to the search function.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Could you not ask your children to let you know if they recieve any inappropriate e-mails? Surely children old enough to be using e-mail on their own can tell what's really inappropriate, and this approach would do more to build a healthy parent-child relationship than a spy program. Not that I think parents aren't justified in spying on their kids activities, if they have reason to believe the kids are participating in inappropriate activities, but either your kids wouldn't dream of responding to something like that, and would be happy to be your partner in reporting the perpetrators to the proper authorities, or e-mail solicitations are the least of your problems, since kids who want to correspond with Internet sex-seekers will quickly find local in-the-flesh sex-seekers to replace the Internet ones from whom they are cut off by parental action.

[sarasmom]

Common sence sanity bump.