Visual Basic Email

If you already have a keylogger and/or a program taking snapshots, then you should already have proof as to whether someone is using your PC. So if you still suspect it but have no proof yet, then either there isn't anyone using it, or they are turning off the spyware and/or deleting any logged info.

One sure bet however, is to start the system with a command prompt only, and check the date and time of the registry or other such files, as a number of them get updated every time the system is used.

Also, unless the user is aware of it, the recent documents list can leave tracks too.

Soo, ppl you don't want are using your precious PC? My suggest is that even if you discover they ARE using it without permission, it will just cause conflicts. The best way you can go is talk to the person you have problems with and talk about resolving conflicts.. Just let he use you PC. I bet you wont die for that.


As for technical questions: You should have specified 2 things you didn't:

Thing 1
The suspect person level of computer knowledge?
It is a hacker? Or is he/her like my mom that thinks computer is all about that Internet Explorer thing?

If the user is a hacker, he will try to clean all his traces before shutting down the PC (including cooling it down with a big fan, deleting logs, browser history, registry files, files last-acess dates, puting back mouse,keyboard in same position it was before) and will also block unwanted activities like keyloggers, background emailing /web-acess and remote access.

In the other hand, if the person is like my mom, probably all he/she will do is shut down the PC usign the on/off button and run to the nearest sofa when you arrive back home.

Thing 2
What kind of data you wan't to send in the email?
You want to send just text? Images? HTML?

If it's just text, forget SMTP protocol. Use a free web email form. HTTP will always be easier and is harder to detect. Anti virus detects emails being sent if you use SMTP, in the other hand, if you use form it might go clean in the background.

If you need the screenhots to be sent, MAYBE the only way is SMTP. Other way i see is (again using HTTP) uploading the images to a free image hosting site. That might be a bit more complicated because you will have to upload binary file, which is a bit less simple.



I hope it helped. I insist the best solution is PEACE between you guys living in same place.

Sorry for my bad english.

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Originally Posted by MrNotorious

Spying is not what im after here... If you would read more carefully i want to know WHO yes guys WHO let me say that again WHO is/was using MY computer. i want to know WHO yes WHO!

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I have to agree with many others here - sending an email to yourself of screen captures and keylogs isn't going to tell you who. The best way to know who is with a $30 camera on your machine that is timed to take snapshots every few seconds or minutes. There is a PowerTool program from Microsoft that will do this. It can write the images to the hard drive or a web site. You could put them into a folder that allows for reading and writing, but no deletion. That would prevent the average person from removing the images -- if they even knew they were being taken.

I also agree with others that the average person would be stopped by the login security that Windows provides. If they can get around that, then they can get around any program you write by simply going to Task Manager and killing it.

I think building an anonymous emailer that avoids the SMTP server and operates in stealth mode sounds like overkill. Do you also need it to be self replicating across a network or the internet? ;)

Brad!