“I found something new and strange of my wife. I can’ t see her chat logs in my computer these days, you know, we share it as the home machine. It seems that she cleaned them up after she had finished use. That’ s what she never did before. And, as I see, most of the time, she uses phone to chat by spending much more time and money on sending text message. Never talks on the phone before me anymore, never logs in AOL and MSN when I am at home anymore, never lets me know what she did online anymore…just like she has turned or twisted her habit in a short time. I asked her for why but no responses. I know there is something wrong, but I don’t know what it is…”
I was receiving grumbles and gossips from one of my friend, Randy. By his telling, I got to know that he is facing emotional crises with his wife. Exactly speaking, Randy doubted that his once-devoted wife was cheating on him, and certainly, he endeavored to get this right but had no idea where to begin. I could not sit back and do nothing about it. After somedays of inquires and extraction, I fixed a private detective. Just when I planned to inform him the contact information of the private detective, he came to me and shocked me with a piece of news: he had been told to install a software tool to monitor his computer!
Upon further acquaintance, I finally make it clear that the software tool he installed is a kind of key logger software, which is usually used as parental control software. Keystroke logger(often called key logger) is a tool for tracking(or logging) the keys pressed on a keyboard, typically in a covert manner so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored. There are numerous key loggers, in which the software-based key loggers are most comprehensive used. They are software programs designed to work on the target computer’ s operating system. The latest key logger software can even capture screen shots, send log emails or monitor computers with remote installation.
It seems a way, but does it really work? However, when I am still questioning its practicability, Randy told me with a subdued heart that he had found some unpleasant evidence of his wife’ s recent abnormality. “What a shame!”, I murmured. But Randy replied:” It’ s a shame that we are breaking, but not a shame I found what she had done to me. Even if I’ d rather it would not be true, my senses tell me that it ’s better to learn the truth!”
On the one hand I, as Randy’ s friend, feel sorry for his sufferings; on the other hand, I wonder at the high technology of information. With so creative development, we are provided such cheap Pinkerton for assisting in digging out the truth.