[parkds]

I think my husband has visited an adult website. Can anyone recommend a good logging or surveillance application I can run on his computer (preferably in a stealth mode) that will monitor websites he visits. It would be great if it could send me emails of activity too. Thanks!

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by parkds 

I think my husband has visited an adult website.

Isn't your husband an adult?

[Gankdawg]

Originally Posted by parkds 

I think my husband has visited an adult website.

Perhaps he is filling a need that he's not getting from his wife?

[ghporter]

Snide comments aside, I have three questions: Why do you think he's visited "adult sites," assuming he's legally competent, why are you concerned about this, and are you talking about monitoring a shared computer (one that you have a user account on) or another computer that you aren't a user on?

I make it a point to avoid getting myself into this sort of discussion. This sounds more like an issue to take up with some sort of professional counselor than an issue to bring to a technical forum. Further, there are so many unknowns involved; are you actually talking about a husband? are you legally in a position to have any say in what he does online? is this part of a much bigger problem, and if so how much worse will it be if you get confirmation of your suspicion-or for that matter have your suspicion completely invalidated?

Finally, we have made it a point on the MacNN Forums to not provide people with the means to avoid legitimately placed obstacles to their "curiosity." That means that we don't help people get around their office network's domain bans, we don't help students figure out ways to do peer to peer sharing on college networks where it's banned, and in general we don't help people get other people's private information without the other person's expressed permission.

[mduell]

Why not just ask him?

I can think of a number of technical ways of achieving what you want (some easier than others), but they don't really seem necessary.

[moonmonkey]

If you are the administrator on 10.5 Leopard you can tell parental controls to log all websites visited, you can also tell parental controls to block access to adult websites.

I bet you don't want to block access, you want to encourage access and then catch him, that way you have another way to make his life even more miserable than it already is.

Another suggestion would be to make yourself look really nice, dress up, cook him some great food and tell him you love him, but that would be too much trouble. Just try to catch him doing something relatively normal and make it out to be evil, thats easier.

[Gankdawg]

Originally Posted by moonmonkey 

Another suggestion would be to make yourself look really nice, dress up, cook him some great food and tell him you love him, but that would be too much trouble. Just try to catch him doing something relatively normal and make it out to be evil, thats easier.