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way to determine if roommate is using my computer for porn?

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calviin

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I suspect that one of my roommate's may be looking at porn or something as every time I use my computer, the history is deleted. Can someone help me out?

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Is he using your account or does he have his own? You could just turn on parental setting (or what ever) and there you can see logs (all sites he has visited, no matter if he clears the history)
 
Keyloggers already exist you can get for Mac. I'd simply password protect my machine and not let him use it if you're worried about his browsing habits.
 
Presumably, since you have roommates, you are an adult. This may sound crazy but how about talking to him. A keylogger. :rolleyes:
 
Not sure what the actual problem is here... do you object to the porn or his using your computer?

If you don't want him using your computer - password protect it

If you want him to have access, but not your account - create a guest account

If you don't want him to look at porn - activate parental controls

Keylogging is not a solution to anything

Personally, I would be more likely to let someone use my toothbrush than my computer

Woof, Woof - Dawg
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I suppose I could just password my computer... I suspect that he's looking at porn but I'm not entirely sure. If he's doing something illegal, then that's a different story. A keylogger would tell me what he was doing. Anyways, thanks for the help!
 
Enter this address into your browser: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

Flash Player stores it's own cache/site storage settings that can't be cleared by clearing out the browser cache, and it still stores even if you're in Private mode in Firefox. So long as they're not YOUR entries, his will be there too unless he knows to delete those (most people don't know that's there). I'm suggesting this because most of those sites stream in Flash.

Hope this may help!
 
NewMacbookPlz said:
Enter this address into your browser: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

Flash Player stores it's own cache/site storage settings that can't be cleared by clearing out the browser cache, and it still stores even if you're in Private mode in Firefox. So long as they're not YOUR entries, his will be there too unless he knows to delete those (most people don't know that's there). I'm suggesting this because most of those sites stream in Flash.

Hope this may help!
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If it's just the history being deleted, then there will be indications of some pages visited through other things not yet reset

e.g. hit reset safari in the file menu:
they're clearing the history, but are they
resetting top sites, emptying the cache, removing cookies, removing autofill form text?

Something similar would happen with Firefox and other browsers.Even if they go into "porn mode" on the browser, they'd have to kill the flash cookies, which needs a separate app/patience.
 
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