Recently a business associate of mine had some of our IM conversations compromised.
Basically he's going through a divorce, his wife 'stole' his PC and even though it was eventually returned by judges order, she had detailed knowledge of conversation that had only occurred via IM.
Mostly I don't care, but I do feel kind of violated since our conversations were not pertinent to their divorce, but rather about some corporate matters.
Now, normally I consider myself pretty security conscious, but this unnerved me slightly.
The IM conversations took place of Windows Live Messenger.
Conversation logging is turned off on the target PC (both pc's actually)
So the question is......should I suspect a key logger on his PC?
OR.....
Much like with the case of the INDEX.DAT file...is there some 'secret' cache of l IM conversations on a Windows XP system that I need to be schooled about?
Any thoughts appreciated
Basically he's going through a divorce, his wife 'stole' his PC and even though it was eventually returned by judges order, she had detailed knowledge of conversation that had only occurred via IM.
Mostly I don't care, but I do feel kind of violated since our conversations were not pertinent to their divorce, but rather about some corporate matters.
Now, normally I consider myself pretty security conscious, but this unnerved me slightly.
The IM conversations took place of Windows Live Messenger.
Conversation logging is turned off on the target PC (both pc's actually)
So the question is......should I suspect a key logger on his PC?
OR.....
Much like with the case of the INDEX.DAT file...is there some 'secret' cache of l IM conversations on a Windows XP system that I need to be schooled about?
Any thoughts appreciated