My father is spying on me through refog keylogger
By beeh13u
@beeh13u (1037)
Philippines
October 28, 2010 12:51am CST
I like surfing the net day and night and my father was a bit curious of what I am doing. He downloaded the refog keylogger software from the internet. Now, he can read everything I typed in my laptop. Good thing it has no password. I like to uninstall it but I'm scared he'll get angry once I'll do it because it may mean that I am really hiding something. I only chat in facebook and YM and I have nothing to hide. But I don't want my father to interfere with my personal life.
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15 responses
@isroxck (39)
• Malaysia
28 Oct 10
Install an antivirus software and uninstall it lol.
Then tell him your antivirus has removed it lol !
Well...Maybe you should tell him that you have your own life and privacy ? OK. It's kinda creepy for your parents to know about everything you do,watch,listen,and TYPE ON THE KEYBOARD !
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@sid556 (30959)
• United States
28 Oct 10
Hi Beeh,
I would ask my father to please uninstall it. You have a right to your own privacy and if your age in your profile is correct then he does not need to be watching your every move. My daughter is 16 and I would not feel right at all spying on her on the net or snooping through her stuff. I see where you said that he spies on your mom too. Have you talked to her about this?
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@apoljuice1 (730)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
I'm not sure how open your father is about these things, or how he would react to talking to you about this if you open it up. But sometimes parents do things because they want to protect their children. Usually it's the most screwed up kind of act, but it's only because they love you so much they don't know how to handle it, and take the easiest way out by spying, or checking stuff. He wants to know more about you which is why he's doing this. Not the classiest way of portraying his parenting skills, it's true. But you can't blame him for trying to get to know you better.
Since he's spying on you anyway, let him know how you feel by creating a blog. Write on it like a normal journal. Tell your 'journal' how you feel about knowing that your dad has installed key logger. Write how you would probably like your dad to get to know you better instead of having to spy on you. Dom't make it sound mad. It's hard enough for your dad to have to resort to this kind of act, let alone having to deal with a child angry at him. Maybe write about how it can bother you, and that although you don't really want or feel the need to have to hide anything, It can have worse effects. Get my drift? Try it and see what happens. ;-) Goodluck~
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@apoljuice1 (730)
• Philippines
29 Oct 10
We all think that way one way or the other. While you're being monitored through your computer, my mom basically goes through my stuff every single day, sometimes every other day. She does it at random times during the day, and does it when she's at home. She looks through my drawers, through my book case, she reads my journal and when she finds something she doesn't like she gets angry for me about it. If she sees I have too many sketches lying around, she gets mad at me for not focusing on school work. If she so much as sees that I'm writing about a boy, she tells me i'm not allowed to have a boyfriend and that it's not necessary and all sort of bad things will happen to me. She was so paranoid, that when I got my period when I was in gradeschool, she told me I shouldn't sit next to boys because I can get pregnant! I mean, come on!
One day, I left a notebook lying around with nasty stuff written on it like on the first page it says "keep out, private". Then on the second page it says, "don't you understand what private means? it means that you shouldn't look into it if it's not yours...". And the rest of the pages keep getting nastier. I know my mom backed off a little after that. I knew she was hurt.
But I realized that I do want them to know about my private life because my other friends can freely tell their parents that they have a crush in school, or that they like drawing as much as school and they want to take art classes. They can say that a guy in school keeps looking at them, and they think that guy is crushing on them. I wanted something like that. So I let them find out that I have crushes, that a guy was crushing on me. My mom kept reprimanding me, but I somehow showed her that not all guys are crazy or want to get into your pants. (And even if they did, that I knew what my limit was). She wasn't all happy about it, and eventually I got used to her. And guess what? She got used to me too.
YOu've gotta start somewhere with this. Better if you start earlier in life so that if you actually meet the girl you like so much and she likes you back, or do something you like so much that doesn't please them, you don't go ruining her image by trying to sneak out with her, or you don't give them the bad impression by trying to hide it behind their backs.
@beeh13u (1037)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
I was thinking about that but I'm scared of the outcome. He doesn't want to get to know me, he wants to bust me. He doesn't understand things in my generation talks about.
2 years ago, he installed a different keylogger. I didn't know it existed. Peteranswer.com was popular at that so I tried it and asked peter about my crushes and other things that an 18 year old would like to know. He really got angry with me. He said that if I want to get married, I'll leave the house. :(
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@kodukodu84 (1569)
• Malaysia
28 Oct 10
Oh my God, reading your post about how your father is monitoring or spying you through refog keylogger, now I'm very thankful that my parents are not even that good with mobile phone. That is not very nice in my opinion, it would hurt me very much if my own parents don't trust me. I can't believe your father is still wanting to be a master of your personal life when you are already considered as an adult, tsk tsk tsk
Good luck and happy mylotting
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@theduke247 (25)
• Canada
28 Oct 10
While it is very disrespectful for your father to do that to you, that is not his intension. Parents want to be able to take care of there children to the best of their ability and sometimes there efforts cross the line. I dont think u should uninstall the program because, correct me if im wrong, it is his house and he did buy that computer. You deleting the program will only cause him to doubt you more. You need to talk to your father. Try to get him to see your point of view. Understand that he is doing this because he loves you and wants to make sure youre safe. If he doesnt listen and you still feel sour about the situation than your just going to have to make the choice of whether or not u still want to use the computer or, depending on how old ou are, move out.
@beeh13u (1037)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
But I need to have privacy. It's uncomfortable that someone is spying on you and it is illegal right? It doesn't present that he loves me. It maybe his house and his money now, but wait until I can have my own. If he keeps on doing this, I'll walk away from him in the future.
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@cr0ssf41r13 (866)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
Fortunately, my parents have not done anything like that to me. That move was very insulting. I believe that if my parents wanted to know something, they should ask me. If they wanted to know what I did through out the day, they should engage me in a conversation. This is to strengthen my relationship with them and avoid underhanded methods like installing a keylogger on my computer in order to know what I was doing on the Internet. There are certain things that parents shouldn't know. They shouldn't be controlling every aspect of their kids' life.
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@beeh13u (1037)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
He really wants to know everything. He wants to catch me sending love emails to someone. Me and my sisters are not allowed to have a boyfriend. That's why he wants to bust us. I wish I can delete it without him knowing. I am planning to put a virus in that laptop so that it will be reformatted. But it will be only temporary because I'm sure he'll install it again.
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@shaggin (72289)
• United States
29 Oct 10
I remember when I was 16 my friends father put a log on their computer so he could see everything his kids did as well. It was awful. He did catch us in some stuff like sending someone a picture of me mooning them. Thats to much an invasion of the kids private life to monitor everything they do on the computer. That is horrible that he spys on your mother as well. Thats just plain disgusting. He should trust his wife or he shouldnt be with her at all. That isnt any way for her to have to live not having any privacy.
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@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
28 Oct 10
beeh13u,
Not meant to pry but I just cannot mention my surprise that your dad is monitoring a 20 year old you. I am sorry but I just find this a little overboard on your father's part or the age you declare doesn't really belong to you.
Anyway, I am sure your father has certain reasons and concerns for doing this where I am sure is not anything to do with ill-confidence on you. I am more to the reasoning that he is concern that you might be in harms way from your participation on Facebook which had been gaining unsavory reputation so far.
Whatever it is, I can understand your predicament and I am sure there's really one aspect you need to work with your father which is called communication. I feel that the both of you should talk and let him understand issues from your perspective while you try to understand and put yourself in his shoes.
There are always differences and it is just nature that people would have to iron out these differences to improve that little link between them which is called relationship.
Take care and have a nice day.
@beeh13u (1037)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
Father is such a hypocrite. Before he installed that keylogger, he laughs at people having a Facebook account. He doesn't even like Friendster. He quoted that people with Facebook accounts are desperate to get married. LOL. But right now, he has 3 accounts and he likes to blog at certain profiles.
Yeah, I am old but my parents still treat me like a baby. He yelled at my 18 years old sister yesterday in public. It made me mad because we shouldn't be treated that way. I sometimes wish I can just escape and run away from this house.
I really need an iphone. By December I'll have one. But I can't play my applications in Facebook. At least I can surf the web without that keylogger.
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@pogi253 (1596)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
There are things that parents should not do to their children. Parents are respected greatly by their children so there is no reason why you should not respect also their privacy. Spying on kids is like slapping them straight on the face. They lose their privacy as children and they could also lose their respect to you. Spying on kids is a very degrading act and should never be done by parents.
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@beeh13u (1037)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
Yeah. There are things that my parents won't need to know. I am not doing anything wrong. I just want to have my own space. I really respect my parents. My father just don't trust me. I can't log in on facebook in my laptop. I'm using my brother's.
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@captinjack (788)
• China
28 Oct 10
It is a piece of cake .Just go to your dad and tell him that you don't wanna be monitored .I bet that he will uninstall the keylogger software by himself as long as you promise that you won't do anything illegal online .At the first glimpse of this ,i am some kind of shocked .I can't believe that nowadays there exist parents sneak their children's privacy.Still,i am sure that you can cope with the issue through honest talk.Good luck !
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@lanan9edjagad (85)
• Indonesia
28 Oct 10
yeah,sometimes the parent often fear if they children doing other things wrong.but,it can talk nicely with your father and give him understanding what your feeling.
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@beeh13u (1037)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
I'm 20 and my father can't let me go. Why can't parents trust their child? I've done everything a parent wish their child would be. I graduated college, passed the board exam and now I'm looking for a job. Are they still expecting too much?! *chill*
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@Paulmullins (3)
• Chennai, India
13 Aug 13
refog keylogger have some disadvantages. I can suggest a better one to your father. He can use the eBlaster 2012 Keylogger Software which easy to install and use. It uses only limited resource from your computer and runs in background. It sends the full report about the activities in the computer. It also traces out the chats and messages.
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