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Name: Covenant Eyes
Category: Surveillance
Dangerous: Yes |
Covenant Eyes is one of Surveillance spywares.
Finding it on your computer means that your computer is infected with Surveillance and crucial data could be endangered or even lost.
Covenant Eyes description by publisher: from the web site: ´Covenant Eyes is excited to announce that it has patent pending status on voluntary watching of file-sharing, newsgroup, ftp, & other non-http internet protocols. A brand new version of the Covenant Eyes Application which supports detection of any fileharing & logging of newsgroups & ftp is entering the beta test phase. Final release is anticipated in the next few days.´
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2007-01-06 01:01:14, Dan:
I don't know who comes up with the ratings or decision if something is dangerous, but they seem to be completely missing the point here. CE is a subscription service that you must SIGN UP for and PAY monthly to use. It is absolutely surveillance software and that is what you WILLINGLY SIGN UP AND PAY FOR if you are a customer. You cannot accidentally install it or one day just 'find it' on your computer. It is accountability software that is used by the paying customer (who willingly signs up) to remove the temptation of looking at adult content. Perhaps if the site authors had read the website they could have made an intelligent report and realize that it is NOT dangerous software. | 2007-03-12 23:14:12, Martin:
Covenant eyes is highly unethical and a legal liablility for a system admin. For one thing, you have to have their(covenant eyes) permission via a password to remove it. It's design is such that one employee is spying on another in order to force a "testimonial" or "witness" in order to be accountable. This is some sort of Baptist/Protestant practice that is extremely discriminitory towards those of us who are Catholic, Orthodox, or Non-Christian. Those of us who practice a confessional faith are not allowed to "testify" in such a manner and we could be excomminicated for doing so in this context.
This software has a high potential for abuse and system admins and desktop techs could be held civilly or possibly criminally liable for installing and supporting this software if an incident occurs. | 2007-05-29 04:05:08, Matthew:
This site is not in anyway a reliable source for information on Covenant Eyes. CE is a program designed to bring accountability to a consenting user(s). CE monitors the user websites and emails an accountability partner the adult links that that user visits. For instance I use it on my computer because I am addicted to pornography. My accountability partner is my wife. If I visit any site with adult content my wife is notified in an email. I could see CE being abused by someone to secretly monitor someone’s internet activity, but there is a problem with this in that it only notifies adult content and there is an icon and a splash at load up notifying that this computer has CE. If you see this and are not consenting to the CE monitoring then, yes, uninstall it. But that is not the intention of CE. | 2007-08-24 01:17:06, Darren:
The definition of spyware according to Wikipedia is 'computer software that is installed surreptitiously on a personal computer to intercept or take partial control over the user's interaction with the computer, without the user's informed consent.' As this software is paid for and installed willingly by the user for his own benefit, I cannot see that anyone can technically call this spyware. | 2007-08-30 08:37:51, Ron:
We had a kid show up at our help desk (university) who couldn't access our network. We found this covenant eyes software, which his parents forcibly installed on his machine, and which was screwing with his ability to use our network.. We disabled it, and the problem went away. Complete misuse of the software - he wasn't voluntarily using it, his parents were trying to enforce his actions while away from home..
| 2007-09-13 20:30:29, Guest:
Covenant Eyes can ONLY be installed by people who have willingly registered for the product. It prompts you to enter a username and password before it allows you to install. Also, CE doesn't "screw" with the use of a network. If the network is properly configured (and its amazing how many people are ignorant of how to do this) then it will work with no problems. | 2007-10-04 18:03:15, Guest:
It is sad that someone must resort to words such as "forcibly installed on his machine"... most likely the PC was purchased by the parents who did not want it used for pornography, or their son becoming addicted to it while away from his parents and their best efforts at protecting him (while likely paying for his way thru college?). They probably advised him of what they were doing, as I did my son. I have the software not because I am addicted but because I cannot trust myself to endure against the temptation to view pornography. I highly recommend it. | 2007-10-16 07:36:53, Guest:
This is self installed software to held people who are addicted to porn. Yip just like I was. It helps by you choosing someone you know, to receive a report off all the websites you have viewed for the week / month and highlights the porn sites. You pay for the service and it is for those who want help. OK so to all the confused folk above who think it is something it is not get your facts straight DOH! | 2007-11-08 11:17:57, John:
I have questions not comments. What real,actual danger is there with this program? Does it endanger the personal information I have stored on my computer? Does it affect the way my computer will operated? Is it something I can't choose to remove at some point? If there is something dangerous about it, what is it. | 2007-11-16 12:25:11, Daniel K:
I'm a helpdesk tech for a financial software company.. Covenant Eyes had to be removed as it interfered with the functioning of our product that runs on a SQL database.Any product that collects info and reports it back over the internet to a 3rd party is spyware--in this case "guiltware" or "shameware" is probably a better definition | 2007-11-19 07:17:07, Daniel K:
any program running on the pc takes away ram & resources . The fewer background processes running the better for the pc. Some of you folks need to grow up. It's sad that someone must use the words "addicted to porn". Did it ever dawn on any of the more devout folks that looking at porn is n-o-r-m-a-l ? As far as the kids at school , or anyone else--all they have to do is download a "live" linux distribution that runs in ramdisk (puppy linux , knoppix, mandrake move etc) and windows , along with covenant eyes, is out of the picture until they reboot. Then it's like linux was never there.The only safeguard against that is a content filter on the ISP side | 2007-11-19 08:47:27, Guest:
@Daniel K: You probably won't respond, but for what reasons do you believe pornography is normative for all humans? Is it because you find it enjoyable or because you feel no convictions towards it? Firstly not everything enjoyable is good. This is evident with any perversion (gluttony, sloth, envy, greed, etc). So using pornography as the example, sex is a good thing, but pornography is a perversion of the good. We all know or should know that perversions are wrong, to quote CS Lewis "You can do good for goodness sake, but you cannot do bad for badness sake; bad is a perversion of the good."
If reason does not sway your view then maybe observation of the environment. How many animals watch other animals have intercourse with one another for sexual pleasure? From my knowledge the count is only one, humans. To paint this picture with a deeper red consider this. How many animals receive sexual pleasure from watching another with inanimate objects, different species, or in sadistic and masochistic ways? Again it is only one, humans. If you grimace at any one of the above listed sexual perversions then you have condemned yourself. For even you recognize the perverse and abnormal ways of man.
Pornography is not normal or even slightly good. There is no excuse that you can derive that will prove good in it to yourself or another, but they will blind you to the good.
"There are false suns, easier to gaze upon and far more comforting than the true one." - Iris Murdoch | 2007-11-22 22:18:40, Daniel K:
I will respond to that.. to a certain degree we are all judgemental--I'm reminded of an illustration of 2 people decked out in all kinds of wild bondage gear in a psychiatrists waiting room. One says to the other.." You wear panties on your head with the skid marks up FRONT??!! You're sick". The gist of this is that everyone has their taboos & limitations. It's perfectly natural to be curious & voyersitic and no one is going to hell for looking at images. The novelty of pornography wears thin and one realizes that there are other things to do on the internet . As far as obtaining some good..? I met my wife trading porn on IRC--her sister set us up on a blind date and we've been married 11 years now.
I think some of the people looking to install covenant eyes would be better served installing Personal Responsibility 2.0 , available at god_doesn't_exist_so_deal_with_reality.com | 2007-11-24 16:54:55, Guest:
Is this program dangerous? Let's see , every place I go or what I type (like credit card numbers) is recorded and sent to other people...ummm gee , and how secure is this other person's computer? If THEY got hacked and some scammer gets my info it's too bad so sad. I like Daniel's suggestion of installing personal responsibility 2.0 | 2007-11-27 06:10:27, Guest:
Okay, I actually have CE on my computer, my manic deppressive, bi-polar step-dad instaled it. And for a MONTH after installing it, I could not get on to the internet, and no one knew why. Now my step-dad has used it to completely block the internet from me, which is awsome since I am a high school senior who is doing her college applications on-line! Also, thanks to this wonderful application, my step-dad has been reading my private e-mails between my sister and myself (and God knows who else). Excuse me, but I never asked for this application, and I don't need it. I am a 17 year old GIRL, I don't need a porn filter on my computer. I didn't ask for it and I don't want it. Don't I get a say in it, or is my opion as a girl completly unimportant as a woman in our household. | 2007-11-27 07:12:34, Guest:
to the 17 year old girl above..go to a friends home that has internet & a cd rom burner.. download a copy of linux such as Knoppix , PClinuxOS , Mandrake Move or Puppy Linux. Burn the file to a cd to create a bootable linux disk. Set your computer up to boot from a cdrom. The linux disk will load linux temporarily into ram and will leave windows alone. CE will have no effect on the linux now running. The Linux OS has web browser , email client , word processor , printer support--anything you need to do. If you want to save anything you will need a usb drive to set as your /home folder . When you reboot & remove the cd there is no evidence that another OS was ever there--windows & CE are back as they were. | 2007-11-30 02:01:17, Guest:
The point -- obviously lost on more than a few here-- is that CE is a completely OPTIONAL, legitimate program and NOT any type of rogue or trojan spyware.
Sure, CE, CAN be abused by unethical individuals, just like ANY legitimate program or application can. The POTENTIAL for abuse does not de- legitimize an otherwise legitimate program.
The whole issue of what people think about pornography is really an entirely separate one that does not belong here.
| 2007-11-30 07:22:20, Guest:
the point , obviously lost on at least one person here is that CE can cause program incompatibility where core applications cannot run that have nothing to do with porn. It's not rogue or trojan but it is SPYWARE none the less. If christian academies REQUIRE that you install it then it's not OPTIONAL now is it ? |
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