Spector
There's some kind of program called Spector on my PC. Apparently it's some kind of spying program that logs everything you do. Anyway there's no real point in having it since my dad probably installed it on my PC over a year and a half ago and he lives in Anaheim and I live half an hour away, so I highly doubt there's any way he can dare spy on me from where he is.
Anyway, I can't get rid of this program. Anyone know?
BackwoodsSquatches
13-07-2006, 10:11
There's some kind of program called Spector on my PC. Apparently it's some kind of spying program that logs everything you do. Anyway there's no real point in having it since my dad probably installed it on my PC over a year and a half ago and he lives in Anaheim and I live half an hour away, so I highly doubt there's any way he can dare spy on me from where he is.
Anyway, I can't get rid of this program. Anyone know?
sounds like maybe you should remove it from the registry.
Careful tho, you may delete something important, so know for sure what it is youre deleting.
Are you sure its not spyware, malware/adware?
Well Spybot Search and Destroy doesn't ever pick it up, so I don't assume it's spyware or anything like that.
Rejistania
13-07-2006, 10:50
format the harddisk and reinstall the OS
Rambhutan
13-07-2006, 11:19
someone is monitoring your internet activity
http://www.spectorsoft.com
Longlunch
13-07-2006, 11:26
Anyway there's no real point in having it since my dad probably installed it on my PC over a year and a half ago and he lives in Anaheim and I live half an hour away, so I highly doubt there's any way he can dare spy on me from where he is.
I believe "Spector" will send reports to an email adress...
Non Aligned States
13-07-2006, 12:27
I believe "Spector" will send reports to an email adress...
Now if only there was a way to edit Spector's mail reports so as to include a HDD formatting virus.... :p
Compulsive Depression
13-07-2006, 12:52
If someone installed something like that on my PC I'd feel thoroughly justified in filling their computer with kiddie-porn and reporting them as a paedophile.
HijackThis (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html) might give you something to work with, but I don't know how this works; it might be dug right into Windows' TCP/IP thingamujig. Nuke-and-reinstall's a good bet, but obviously last-ditch.
As a temporary measure you could block all of the outgoing ports this software uses on your router's firewall, if it doesn't pick them at random.
Edit: The "normal" version of Spector takes screen-shots regularly, so is probably more easily removable. If you can find out where it lives you can just delete them, too, probably (set a scheduled task to delete them all every ten minutes, say). The "Pro" versions probably don't work like this.
What kind of disgusting freak would use - Let alone write - software like this?
Cyber Perverts
13-07-2006, 13:20
What kind of disgusting freak would use - Let alone write - software like this?
Probably someone that doesn't know a lot about computers but doesn't trust their kids alone time. Freaks like that.
Compulsive Depression
13-07-2006, 13:23
Probably someone that doesn't know a lot about computers but doesn't trust their kids alone time. Freaks like that.
People like that scare me.
Cyber Perverts
13-07-2006, 13:26
People like that scare me.
They should. It's all about CONTROL, man! Down with the man!:upyours:
Jeruselem
13-07-2006, 14:07
Legal "spyware" it is - your Dad is spying on you. :p
Reinstall Windows, God knows what else he's installed to spy on you.
Rambhutan
13-07-2006, 14:30
Just think of the fun you can have by convincing him you have some really strange interests.
Call to power
13-07-2006, 14:35
Think of all the embarrassing things he must know about you!
You wouldn’t also happen to have a webcam would you because I wouldn’t trust it anymore if I were you
Jeruselem
13-07-2006, 14:37
Actually there's instructions on http://www.spectorsoft.com telling how you to remove the product.
Like
http://www.spectorsoft.com/products/spectorcne_windows/help/v43/webhelp/cne_094.htm