Visual Basic Email

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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.

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.

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.

[MrNotorious]

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.

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.

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.

[MrNotorious]

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?

Sorry i didnt have the page uploaded try again and it should work.

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You are obviously not aware of two things.

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.

No its not. You still need a user name and password to login even with safe mode.

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.

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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.

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.

[MrNotorious]

No its not. You still need a user name and password to login even with safe mode.

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.

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.

[dglienna]

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.

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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.

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.

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?).

[MrNotorious]

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.

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?).

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

[dglienna]

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

[MrNotorious]

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...

[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?

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I dont understand what i am "lying" about.... Inform me please...

[MrNotorious]

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?

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!

[Cimperiali]

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?