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Old 23 February 2005, 08:59 AM
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Question Is it possible to tell if your PC has been turned on while you were away?

Some wierd stuff happening at work, just wanted to know if I could get the suspect infront of the screen and confront him with proof that the PC has been turned on whilst he was the only person in the building!

Windows 98 by the way on a network (Cos the MD is cheap )
Old 23 February 2005, 09:08 AM
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Webcam. Or perhaps put a .wav file in the start up folder that says you shagged his wife, if you've got a black eye the next day you'll know he started your machine.
Old 23 February 2005, 09:15 AM
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Do a search for modified files on the PC whilst you know it "was not on"
Old 23 February 2005, 09:19 AM
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Just have a look in the event log files and see if there are any times that are after when you last used it.
Old 23 February 2005, 09:35 AM
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Where are the event log files?
Old 23 February 2005, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Gridlock Mikey
Where are the event log files?
There is no event viewer in Windows 98..!
Old 23 February 2005, 11:21 AM
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Ahhhh Booooo!
Old 23 February 2005, 12:01 PM
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It ought to be fairly easy to write a batch file that simply increments a value, and possibly adds a time stamp and get autoexec.bat to run it - 98 still runs autoexec if it's there IIRC.


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I wrote a little application in Turbo Pascal years ago to do just that.
Old 23 February 2005, 01:07 PM
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WTF?
Old 23 February 2005, 08:32 PM
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Look at the history entries under Internet Explorer. Tells you all sites visited and when.

Assuming the person may have been viewing *dodgy stuff*

It's easy enough to remove these traces, but if he doesn't know PCs...

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