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I suspect someone is login into my computer when I check event viewer. Is it possible to have a script on windows 7 to record every login onto my windows 7 desktop pc?
user221459
Posted 2015-05-22T13:47:18.893
Reputation: 11
Logging login events on my Windows 7 desktop OS to a file
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Windows already can do this using the MMC module. But if you do not trust it, you can add an autorun to your profiles that does this 'logging'
LvB
Posted 2015-05-22T13:47:18.893
Reputation: 149
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Windows already logs this into the security log
There is a nice freeware GUI: NirSofts's WinLogOnView
StackzOfZtuff
Posted 2015-05-22T13:47:18.893
Reputation: 1 185
why use a 3rd party app when the MMC enables you to see this already? – LvB – 2015-05-22T14:06:10.700
Because the security log has too much throughput. It is unreadable to me. Even on my single user machine. There are currently 21k events. (~20MB) WinLogonView parses this into just 105 sessions. And it also calculates session duration. (Which eventvwr.msc does not, I think.) – StackzOfZtuff – 2015-05-22T14:22:22.703
Learn to use the filters, instead of relying on external tools that you have no knowledge about how it works , or what data it sends to 3rd party (or worse what security holes it opens) – LvB – 2015-05-22T14:23:32.137
Sure. But the VirusTotal report of my WinLogonView.exe is clean. And NirSoft has been around for long enough for me to trust them. Worth the risk to me.
– StackzOfZtuff – 2015-05-22T14:26:15.363