Re: Application monitoring/key logging

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"Rob Kings" <greeneggsandham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I don't know whether this classes as OT or not, but here goes anyway. I'm
>looking for a keyboard logger, but it needs to capture mouse activity as
>well. I want it for testing some software. Occasionally we get a crash, but
>only after a long session of complex activity. What I'd like to do is run
>some background task and then after my App has hit its problem I'd have a
>full log of everything I'd done upto that point, and hence be able to try
>to reproduce it.

This is not a good plan. Log internal processes, errors, etc., not user
input. Imagine if a black box on a plane was replaced with a series of
camcorders aimed at vital engine parts, etc. It would be very hard to piece
together what happened after the fact.

>
> Most of the logging tools out there (that I've found) seem to:
>
> a) Be written from the point of view of company/parent security (They all
> have stealth modes so that the person using them doesn't know they are
> running)
>
> b) Capture text only (i.e. When I use my app I see very little logged
> after my password)
>
> c) Are frankly pretty crap.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>


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