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Question:

First let me say that I'm a network administrator and on occasion I'm asked by supervisors to tell them where their employees are surfing. As everyone knows, if the persons simply deletes their history, it is very difficult to get any factual info.

Therefore, I would like to write a script that runs in the background when IE6 is running and records the URL of the site being displayed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The main stumbling blocks I see are making it undetectable to the user, and finding a command that captures the URL.

If you have any thoughts, advice, scripts that I can tweak, please let me know.

Answer:

Here is some code that logs the information to a file, and runs hidden from the user....

This was developed and tested on Windows XP 

;This script will log all of the URLs being 
;viewed by the user, once every hour
IntControl (1002, 0, 0, 0, 0);run hidden
While @True
	now = TimeYmdhms()
	fh = FileOpen("C:\temp\locationlogger.txt","WRITE")
	FileWrite(fh,StrCat("************ ",now, " ************"))
	oShellApp = ObjectOpen("Shell.Application");
	oWindows = oShellApp.Windows()
	cnt = oWindows.Count
	For x = 0 to cnt-1
	   oWin = oWindows.Item(x);
	   FileWrite(fh,oWin.locationURL)
		ObjectClose(oWin)
	Next
	FileClose(fh)
	ObjectClose(oWindows)
	ObjectClose(oShellApp)
	hourfromnow = TimeAdd(now,"0000:00:00:01:00:00")
	TimeWait(hourfromnow)
Endwhile
exit


Article ID:   W15771

File Created: 2003:05:13:11:29:58
Last Updated: 2003:05:13:11:29:58