Yes i am sure her kids have a checking account so they can use paypal. As well as jobs. As well as a desire to snoop on her mom
So you have to have a checking account to purchase software? Funny, but most of the software stores in my area accept cash.
Also, there are plenty of free spyware programs out there.
http://shareware.search.com/search?cat=237&tag=ex.sa.fd.srch.sa_win&q=keystroke+logger
I am not arguing if it is possible it is. But to assume that her kids are working against her is a big one, and to assume that her kids are going to go out and buysome software to spy on the mom because they want to is an even bigger one.
The OP said that he needed to be 100% invisible. Spyware is easy to download and install.
So get a hotmail or gmail account and access it from the local library.
Logging off will make is 100% invisible for all intents and purposes. I dont get why a e-mail account would need to be hidden.
Yeah, no doubt.
“Mom, I’ve been keeping an eye on your web history and noticed that you visited mail.yahoo.com. I thought you might have a private email account that you didn’t register with me and sis. So I borrowed the Mac OS system disks and promoted myself to admin where I was able to view your internet cache. I noticed that you are indeed sending emails and that some of them were to a person with a man’s name. I got a lift to the software store and purchased some Mac OS-compatible keylogging software with my hard-earned allowance money and then installed it on your machine (remember I have admin privileges now). That was when I found out that you are planning on meeting a man for coffee on Tuesday! Why didn’t you tell me?”
Based on the OP it sounds like a web mail account is a reasonable balance of privacy and risk. I mean, if the kids actually did the above (or something similar), then she’d have to have the I’m-not-replacing-your-dad talk a bit earlier than she planned. But at least it would be convienent because she could segue into the stay-the-hell-out-of-my-private-stuff talk too.
And sure, if the OP is not complete (which I don’t know why anyone would assume there is more), then she should just access the web mail account from work during lunch time.
And, like every other browser, that cache can be automatically deleted (and even if not automatically, surely manually—I’m not sure how hard this is for a Mac but it is absurdly easy to manually delete the cache for a Windows PC).
Unless somebody installs key logging software after learning of the existence of the e-mail account. Such software is easily available.
That’s what the OP was asking for. As I said above, the likely reason is that the OP fibbed a little about his situation.
I totally agree.
That’s if her employer allows web surfing for private purposes. And if she can stand being in contact with loverboy only once a day.
So, can we draw two conclusions here?
First, if someone is really worried about “their children” catching them emailing their new squeeze, using webmail and then logging off is perfectly adequate security.
Second, the OP was probably lying about “their children” or, even more humourously, “their friend’s children”.
Third (maff isn’t my strongpoint), if they’re actually talking about hiding things from a spouse, the thing to do is use webmail from somewhere else.
Right?
-Joe
I concur. Because it matters how big the secret is and what are the consequences of discovery.
For what it’s worth, Apple just released a beta of Safari 3 for Windows! I don’t know what they’re thinking, but in any case, the “Private Browsing” feature I mentioned earlier is now available to Windows users.