Internet Explorer Question
 

Hello again. :) This is just another VB programming question and will be the last for a long time. (BTW - the only reason I post these is not to annoy you but to seek knowledge from those better than I in programming and skill. :D)

I am trying to write a logging program that logs the websites that a person goes to in IE. Is this possible by calling an API function or with a keylogger, etc..? I would load the website from the cookies, but as you know, not all sites place cookies on the computer and some people disable cookies. How would I be able to track the websites visited?

(PS. the progtram will always be active in the background and invisible to the user, if that helps.)

Thanks you!!!! :D

email kazza or comet cursor...on some spyware tips:p

LOL, thats a funny one. :D Comet cursor is really quite annoying and hard to remove for the unexperienced user. :( It sucks badly too.

I have never attempted something like this before. Maybe you could use some function in winsock32.dll to track tcp traffic.

Why would you want to do this when IE has a history feature? The history is stored in a folder somewhere, so maybe you could steal the filenames of the internet shortcuts from there.

C:\Windows\History :D

Settings depend on: IE Options -> General tab -> History:
days to keep pages in history = ?

btw, I've got mine set to "0" ;)
Though I've seen some people with it set to 4 weeks or more :eek:

I've got mine set to keep 600 days in history. :D

Mine is at 999 days. I'm not worried, because no one else uses this box. My cache is also set to 5GB. But that's all meaningless because I no longer use IE.


Anyhow, I think there is a systemwide variable for the history. I bet it's in the registry. This is especially important for Win2k/XP systems, because of multiple user profiles. We can't have more then one user sharing the same history, now can we?

I think the reason why he is not using the histroy is because it is to easy to delete the histroy. If you are interested in logging, it doesn't help when anyone can delete the log.

Things end up in the history no matter what the users settings are (even if it's set to 0 days). So, his program could grab the URLs from the history, the log them in a safe file in another location. So, if the user deletes the history, the log will remain intact in another location.

Ya this is what I was thinking. As for the winsock32.dll idea, I'll play around with it later after exams.

The reason I'm trying to do this is becasue I'm trying to write a spyware program for private uses. And bottomline is, I'm cheap, I hate net nanny & alternatives, and everything I've found on the net is shareware. Plus, I'm just going for the whole history logging fature nad that is all so I can keep size down and avoid suspicion by the users.

As for help with winsock32.dll, try

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...asp?frame=true

Try looking through some of the stuff on the left navigation bar. I found a list of winsock32.dll functions somewhere.

Thanks nick, looking at it now. :D