[Hemidakota]

Originally Posted by unixknight

Ever since my ex lost interest in the church she's been much more lenient on our 3 kids in terms of what they can get away with, morality-wise. One issue is that she doesn't may any attention to what they do with their computers, and each has a computer in their own room, unsupervised.

I am a software developer and I've been working on a program that, once complete, will quietly run in the background of each computer and compile a report for me periodically and send me an E-mail. It will tell me every website the computer has visited, and eventually I might even add the functionality to search things like E-mail and chat logs for possible trouble.

This is, I admit, not allowing them much privacy, but in this day and age, and the fact that they're otherwise unsupervised, I feel it's necessary.

The reason I'm posting this is to let everybody know that if something like this interests you, and you'd like to have it for your kids' computers, let me know and I'll gladly share it with you, free of charge. It will only run on Windows, and you'd need the .NET framework installed but Windows XP and Vista come with that anyway. For those who like to tinker with software or who would just feel more comfortable, I'll also supply the source code as freeware. (It's written in C#)

At this point it's not finished, but the component that scans all Internet Explorer files works, and the E-mail feature is near completion.

MODS: I apologize, I meant to post this under Parenting. If someone would be so kind as to move it, I'll be very grateful.

When you purchase the latest NetGear 'N' router, it has the same logging status and e-mail alerts.