how can i tell if someone is watching what i chat about online?

Answer 1

Basically, assume someone somewhere is watching your conversation. If someone is on the same local network and your chat is being sent in plain text (most of the time), they can see your conversation just by watching the network traffic and you will never know. The only way to prevent this is to get an encrypted VPN connection to another network and chat through that.

If you think something has been installed on your system, run a spyware cleaner (i recommend running both Ad-aware and Spybot, both can be downloaded for free from http://www.download.com/)

Even with that, all internet traffic is being watched. See http://www.eff.org/att/

Answer 2

there are so many ways that someone could be watching what you chat about online, the only way you will ever know is if they come up and show you what you've said... like if they pull up a log of that 40-year-old guy you were chatting with last night... naughty naughty.

there could be software taking screenshots of your pc, key loggers logging everything you type to a text file, network sniffers looking at traffic on your lan, government software on the isp's network,. some pervert at your isp watching your traffic. there's no way to be sure of all of them.

most suveillance software that i've seen that is actually installed on a computer (not stuff like trojans and viruses) is pretty hard to detect. this is the type of stuff your boss would use or that parents would use to monitor their kids.

Answer 3

If you can see it than someone already has.

Many ISP's can track what you send/do/say, and they aren't the securest companies in the world. The Patriot Act also allows the government to step in for any reason whatsoever with no notice to you or anyone and record all your online activities.

What I'd be more worried about is the person you're talking with saving your conversation and emailing it to somebody else. I've had that happen a few times and got stung bad.

Answer 4

Trojans and other spy programs could see what you are or have been doing on a computer.

Trojans are usually the most dangerous, depending on what the users' or programs' intent is. Someone who has access to the trojan server (virus) via a trojan client (controller) on a computer could essentially see everything happening on the computer, in real-time or through various logs being kept , etc.

Answer 5

you really cannot, there are good hacks and software, that no one can detect, but keeps records of all you activity, always be careful online, regarding names numbers and all.

Answer 6

i know i also do tht but there are sum tricks u hav to know abt password hacker u can do anythin and wen can watch u wat r u chatting abt

Answer 7

look behind you.