Help me catch my brother.

[tehkain]

how about being a good sibling and covering his tracks for him.

Seconding this. I mean If I was you I would teaching him how to circumvent your mothers tracing. I also would have shook his hand when he figured out how to delete history and the cache. Oh wait no I'd pat him on the shoulder.. that hand is nasty. You ratting him out will only end in him 'telling' on you when you stumble in drunk one night after a mighty party.

To be honest tho, he is going to look at this stuff no matter what. Better in the comfort of his own home then in the woods with a stolen magazine.

[slimdog360]

far out, just let him go for it. Everyone does whether they admit it or not.

edit: besides, its good for the upper body strength

[plb]

Do you have a router? Routers tend to keep logs. Get a key logger. there are tons of free ones.

[russell.h]

Write a script to copy anything that appears in the history and cache (both in .mozilla in his home folder if you are running linux) to another folder where he won't find it.

[slimdog360]

film him. hahahhaha

[Axis]

Problems with just letting it happen..

A) its a windows computer, the anti-virus is there but it's bound to get a virus eventually and nothing will stop that.
B) My mom always tells him that she found out on her own.
C) I don't drink alcohol so no worries about coming home late drunk

Now about the cache, how do I access it?

Also, I can prove he looked at it because before it would show where he had viewed the websites when you clicked the down arrow.

On another note, he has already found limewire, just hasn't realized he wouldn't get caught (as easily) with it. If you put in the first letter of a word it still shows anything that has been typed.

One final note, I personally don't care about the fact he is looking at it. But if my bro screws up that comp looking at porn then my mom can't check her e-mail. She can't check her e-mail means she dosen't care about the internet. Me keeping him from screwing up the windows computer keeps my on the internet with Ubuntu.

EDIT: If you didn't catch it, she will stop paying for the internet.

[russell.h]

film him. hahahhaha

yeah, set up a hidden webcam, and either write a script to start recording whenever he opens firefox, or else get a program for motion sensing.

Of course then again you might not want to see that....

[MS-DOS4]

How long does he stay on there? Perhaps you could watch him

[aysiu]

Here's a keylogger:
http://pykeylogger.sourceforge.net/w....php/Main_Page

[russell.h]

Oh, if you are on windows try http://www.snapfiles.com/get/acmonitor.html or something similar. My parents used to use some such utility, but they never figured out that on a 20GB hard drive with a program taking a screenshot every 10 seconds the drive could fill up in a hurry.