Computer network question

[Ex-MA Hole]

How do y'all tell if someone is watching your computer usuage?  When I sold computers in a previous life, there was a program called "Ghost" that allowed you to see if someone was watching your screen.

I THINK my bosses g/f and my old manager are up to something on my 'puter.  It my personal laptop, but hooked up to the work network.

Any ideas?

[Guest]

Check your running services to start.  Other than the remote desktop tool on XP, anything that will allow what you describe will have to run in memory.  Sometimes, it'll hide itself, but I'd imagine they'll use something less fancy.

Chris

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

Perhaps a screenshot of the process list in the task manager would help us figure out if anything odd is running.

[Ex-MA Hole]

I know how to get to the task manager, how do i get a screen shot?

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Print Screen key.  It takes a snapshot of the screen and copies it to the clipboard.  Paste it into Paint or soemthing.

[Sindawe]

Better than Task Manager is a freeware utility called Process Explorer. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html  It will show who launched what processes, and the command line used, what TCP/IP traffic the process is using and a host of other cool stuff.  It will also kill processes that Task Manager will not.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

Ah yeah, I forgot about Process Explorer.  Good app.