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I would like to Email a specified email address at a certain interval in my program. I would prefer NOT using an smtp as i have had NO luck with them. If their is any way or control that can do this i am not aware of it. PLEASE help [EDIT] I do not want to use outlook because some peolpe dont have outlook configured and i want it to send the email without bringing anything up.
Sorry, we don't discuss such things here. Either re-word it to comply with the AUP {edited by admin}Quote:
Originally Posted by MrNotorious
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Originally Posted by dglienna
Although i dont agree with that do to the fact that many people use keyloggers for many dif. security purposes, I reworded it
Well, if you post a valid use of one (which I don't agree with, unless you are an employer) then we may be able to help. If we helped, then anyone else would be able to use code for bad purposes.
The use for the program is as follows; I feel that someone is using my computer when i am at work and school. the program captures screen shots every minute and logs keystrokes, the windows they where typed in and right and left mouse clicks. It has the option to add to registry. I need to add email capabilities so i can monitor what is happening when im not at the computer. I feel this is valid and understandable use for the simple fact that i spent $1400 on the computer and i have the right to control who is accessing my computer and what they are using it for. I also feel with emailing capabilities i will be able to see if and who is using my computer and what they are using it for. I would GREATLY appretiate if someone could help me on this matter as it is not for ANY way being used for misuse or harm.
All you are helping with is emailing -- There isnt any harm in that.Quote:
Originally Posted by dglienna
And again if you do find it in yourself to help me, i need help emailing a specified email address at a certain interval. I tried SMTP with winsock i havnt had luck and i dont receive the email. I cant use outlook or mapi i dont have it configured. I heard of doing this using PHP but dont know where to begin. PLease help
You'll like this. I may remove it in a day, depending on what others say.
I thank you greatly - Let me look at this and see if it helps!Quote:
Originally Posted by dglienna
As before no luck with smtp... Is their a way to log into a server using API to loggin and send or anything of the such? Or maybe a link that logs in and then can send an email?
Your ISP may block messages that don't contain the actual username in the from address. I found this out the hard way. Try sending something from yourself, TO yourself, to test if they are filtering port 25, as was the case with me.
Thats what i have been trying and it still dosnt go through. Plus gmail uses port 465... I have been trying for atleast a week to get this working. I was thinking maybe use API to login and send and in the form have a text for username , pass, and a login button or somthing.
Post some code, and an error message. That code worked fine for me.
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Originally Posted by dglienna
No error just didint get an email
Ok so heres the deal... Im going to use PHP to send the email. The PHP code i have is;
<?php
$fileLocation = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["PHP_SELF"];
$fileName = basename ($fileLocation);
$notcomplete = false;
$nodata = false;
if ( !isset($_POST["mailto"]) ) {
$nodata = true;
}
if ( !isset($_POST["subject"]) ){
$nodata = true;
}
if ( !isset($_POST["email"]) ){
$nodata = true;
}
if ( !isset($_POST["name"]) ){
$nodata = true;
}
if ( !isset($_POST["message"]) ){
$nodata = true;
}
if ($nodata){
?>
<form action="<?=$fileName?>" method="post">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>
Name:<br><input type="text" value="name" name="name" size="20"><br>
Email:<br><input type="text" value="email" name="email" size="20"><br>
Subject:<br><input type="text" value="subject" name="subject" size="20"><br>
Send to:<br><input type="text" value="[email protected]" name="mailto" size="20"><br>
Message:<br><textarea name="message" cols="30" rows="6"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value=" Send "></td></tr></table></form>
<?php
exit("");
}//end if nodata
if ( trim($_POST["mailto"] == "") ){
$notcomplete = true;
}
if ( trim($_POST["subject"] == "") ){
$notcomplete = true;
}
if ( trim($_POST["email"] == "") ){
$notcomplete = true;
}
if ( trim($_POST["name"] == "") ){
$notcomplete = true;
}
if ( trim($_POST["message"] == "") ){
$notcomplete = true;
}
if ($notcomplete){
echo "missing required parameter";
//you could change the a
exit ('a href="javascript:history.back(1)"> click here a');
}
$mailto = $_POST["mailto"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$subject = $_POST["subject"];
$message = $_POST["message"];
$name = $_POST["name"];
//$mailto = "$mailto";
//$subject = "$subject";
$msg = ereg_replace("\\\'", "'", $message);
$msg1 = ereg_replace('\\\"', "\"", $msg);
$message1 = "From: $name\nemail: $email\nmessage:\n$msg1";
$sent = mail($mailto, $subject, $msg, "From: $email\r\nReply-to: $email\r\n");
if ($sent){
echo ("Your Email has been sent to $mailto!");
}else{
echo "Message sending Failed";
}
?>
The code i was told to use in VB is;
WebBrowser1.navigate "http://www.freewebtown.com/mrnotorious/email.php?to=" & Text1.Text & "subject=" & Text2.Text & "from=" & Text3.Text
I added MSINETCONTROLS so webbrowser1 isnt a problem. Other then that i dont know where to start. Any help on this?
I was going to look at the page using Firefox and its DOM Inspector, but I can't seem to even get to the page. Might be a permissions issue.
Maybe they don't want programs sending email?
Yes you do .... Which is the purpose of user accounts and passwords. You can also set your computer to log the time and date of user logons via the audit policy.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrNotorious
Would you like help password protecting your $1400 computer?
Don't go down the route of installing spyware that secretly watch what the user is doing, you could find yourself in trouble, assuming that is what you are actually trying to do. If you can send emails via outlook from your PC, there is no reason why the program you have written cannot do the same through the SMTP server.
You are obviously not aware of two things.Quote:
Originally Posted by visualAd
One being i want to know WHO is using my computer...
Two it is easy to get around password and user account using safe mode.
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Originally Posted by dglienna
Sorry i didnt have the page uploaded try again and it should work.
No its not. You still need a user name and password to login even with safe mode.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrNotorious
What operating system are we talking about here? Because if you've paid $1400 for a PC with windows ME/98, you've been conned. :p
You can also set a BIOS password, lock your bedroom door or take your hard disk with you when you go out. Or maybe just burn it. :p
Fact is, what you are asking is at best un-ethical, moderately worse, against the AUP and worst could assist users in creating a program / key logger/ spyware.
There are ways of doing these things and the way you are going about it is wrong.
BTW, the PHP script you wrote and posted the link for is a spammers dream. An open relay.
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Originally Posted by visualAd
I wont mention how as getting into someones account would be "un-ethical" by all means....
I am also running XP. I wouldnt have said you could do it if you couldnt.
There are a few versions of XP. Do you have Professional or Home? It'd surely be worth the extra $100 for PRO. Even with HOME, it has reasonably good security. You could have a BIOS password, then a USER password, then even log into the Internet Password. If someone can guess all three, and manage to log on, you'll see in the logs that you were logged on when you haven't been. Busted.
The particulars of XP's security or lack thereof isn't really the issue. In XP home, if you have user accounts enabled and have set and administrator password you must supply it to logon. Even in safe mode.. Of course there are ways around this, but you will need a bit of technical knowledge to do so. And it cannot be bypassed in safe mode. Setting the BIOS password will make getting around it more difficult.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrNotorious
If you are that worried about the security of your PC. Lock it away or take the hard disk out.
I am not going to help you make a mail transfer agent in VB and I would storngly advise against anyone else helping you and like I said, if you can access your ISP's SMTP server from outlook and relay through it, there is no reason why you cannot access it from your VB program (provided it is installed on your home pc - which it is, right?).
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Originally Posted by visualAd
Yes it is installed on my laptop... And yes you can bypass the admin. account in safe mode and yes you can bypass the bios PASS by ressetting bios by either hitting the reset button on the mobo or removing the bios battery on older mobo's also all of these solutions arnt solving the fact that i want to know WHO is using my computer
Buy a fireproof SAFE.
And check out the link. I guess someone saw your posts before the EDITS. http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=445104
I dont understand what i am "lying" about.... Inform me please...Quote:
Originally Posted by dglienna
You can hide the laptop or the hard drive in a safe, or take it with you.
Why would you want to spy on your family?
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by MrNotorious
Quote:
Originally Posted by dglienna
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!
Quote:
I would like to Email a specified email address at a certain interval
in my program.
[...]
I do not want to use outlook because some peolpe dont have
outlook configured
[...]
I feel that someone is using my computer when i am at work
and school
[...]
Strange part is:
you claim it is your own computer, used by someone when you're
not at home (when you are at work or at school, you are not at
home. Or is it a public place - meant: a room you share with other
working students - where you live? But in any case, not too many
people could enter).
Thus it should be someone in your house.
But you want email to (yourself?) at work and at school
And some people in your home do not have outlook installed
in your Pc... Oh, yes, it should also be silent, should not it?
If your request is true, what I do not understand is why
it should not be enough to store images and log crypted
and hided somewhere in your own hard disk. Or they
are all hacker (but you) in your home?
BY the way:
If you want to track "who", it is quite useless to track
what is typed in and what appear on the screen. You could
have more luck by using a cam (webcam, if you prefer).
I did not play too much with email sending and Vb, so I
might be wrong here, but I am not aware of a way to send
mails with Vb without user permission, expecially after Sp2
of Xp.
It seems as as if you're trying to mail from a Pc...after logging to
an internet page, and using then the mailserver instead of your
own mail. If you're not building something that is meant to send
mail from any Pc (and not only from your), why you do not simply
upload the data to your site?
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrNotorious
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!