Surface Pro3 monitoring apps
How can you tell if you suspect someone is monitoring your Surface Pro3? Or monitoring your web browsing?
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Hi MamaG
Welcome to the Communty Forums.
There is no simple, non technical way to check for this but in a nutshell you can:
1. Check in your Start Menu – All Programs and to see whether or not something like VNC, RealVNC, TightVNC, UltraVNC, LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, etc is installed, i.e., programs that can establish remote connections with your system.
2. Check which firewall ports are in use and by what.
3. Check the outbound connections from your system for anything that you would next expect to be trying to connect.
4. In terms of email monitoring you can check to see whether you are going directly to your ISP's server or if someone has set up a proxy server and therefore may be diverting traffic to an alternative server before passing it on to your ISP's server.
But as you can see from the above these are all quite technical things that require a certain degree of knowledge and/or some specialist software apps to facilitate the investigation.
Alternatively, if a scan with WSA has come up clean then you can Open a Support Ticket and see if the Support team can check your system out...if you still feel concerned.
Hope that helps?
Regards, Baldrick
Welcome to the Communty Forums.
There is no simple, non technical way to check for this but in a nutshell you can:
1. Check in your Start Menu – All Programs and to see whether or not something like VNC, RealVNC, TightVNC, UltraVNC, LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, etc is installed, i.e., programs that can establish remote connections with your system.
2. Check which firewall ports are in use and by what.
3. Check the outbound connections from your system for anything that you would next expect to be trying to connect.
4. In terms of email monitoring you can check to see whether you are going directly to your ISP's server or if someone has set up a proxy server and therefore may be diverting traffic to an alternative server before passing it on to your ISP's server.
But as you can see from the above these are all quite technical things that require a certain degree of knowledge and/or some specialist software apps to facilitate the investigation.
Alternatively, if a scan with WSA has come up clean then you can Open a Support Ticket and see if the Support team can check your system out...if you still feel concerned.
Hope that helps?
Regards, Baldrick
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