Computer Security: Instant Message Logger
Instant message loggers give parents the ability to read all of their childs instant message communications. Instant messaging is as popular with todays youth as talking on the telephone was 40 years ago. Forty years ago a parent could stand around the corner or pick up the receiver to hear what their child was saying. Monitoring instant messages is not as easy.
Monitoring Chat Activity
Fortunately, internet message logging applications have been created to assist parents in keeping their children safe. A message logger records exactly what is typed into an instant messenger. It also records the responses received via instant message. A parent can read every communique his or her child sends without having to peer over that childs shoulders every time the child is online.
An added benefit to storing log files is that parents can begin to study and decipher instant messaging language. Instant messages are filled with acronyms and slang. Entire conversations may contain only two or three sentences with recognizable English words. Storing log files of instant message chats gives parents ample opportunity to look up what their children on parental translation sites that can be found on the Internet.
Instant message loggers store conversations in log files. These files are hidden from everyone using the computer except for the administrator that installed the logging software. This prevents creative children from erasing chats they do not what their parents to see. It also prevents them from turning off the software when they want to chat.