Hi all, I've had a problem with my microsoft messenger, or more to the point someone on it. I found out a girl I talk to on there can see all my other conversations somehow with other people. I asked her what program it was and she would not say, only that some IT woman at her work installed it. Not only that but come to find out she can see all the pics and stuff on my computer as well as my emails or any programs i have to log into. I did a windows xp firewall check to make sure it was up and any programs it listed as trusted ones were ok.

So my question is what is she possibly using, I'm not sure what you would classify it as, Spyware? Rootkit?Keylogger? Also how might I go about stopping it so i have my privacy back. I have looked through the programs list and dont see anything and my zonealarm hasnt showed anything being wrong.I'm sort of seeing her long distance so thats why i have no idea whats on her computer. Any help would be greatly appreciated, its been driving me up a wall and I can't find answers anywhere online.

(BUMP) No one has any clue on this. Gotta be at least one expert here amongst all who has half an answer.

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