Spy Software

["Richard Pachito" <alpyha () prodigy net>]

Hello, I administer workstations for a small company and the boss recently
asked me to isntall sofware called "Spector Pro".  It is a 'spy' utility
that captures keystrokes, e-mails, instant-messages (YIM,AIM,ICQ), and takes
screen shots every X amount of time.

What I was wondering is how exactly does this program hide itself in the
system.  I've called their techs a few times to end with a repsonse of 'we
are not authorized to disclose such information'.

The recorded data is saved in a C:\winnt\system32\netext\ folder but no
exec.  There is nothing unusual listed in Task Manager that would lead me to
the application running in the background.  Would anyone happen to know how
exactly this application works.  I believe a user would have the right to
know what is running on their system, and I'm kinda ticked off that Spector
Soft denys such information.


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