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USB Stick Scans for Spouse's Cheating Chat Logs

- By - Source : Tom's Guide US

Scan your hard drive for chat logs with this thumb drive.

Feeling a little suspicious that your "better half" may be talking love with someone else online? Do you think your employees are sneaking in chat time instead of working? Who the heck are the kids chatting with anyway? Paraben's Chat Stick may be your answer to all of those questions--or for at least those who can't figure out how to locate chat logs on their own.

The process is easy: simply insert this thumb drive into the PC and let it search the HDD for logs left behind by Yahoo, MSN 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, & 7.5, ICQ 1999-2003b, Trillian, Skype, Hello, & Miranda. The device even throws it all together into an ready-to-read report.

"The Chat Stick looks like any other USB drive," the company said. "No one would suspect the device can be used to see what they are saying with chat programs when they are using your computer." That is, of course, they can't read the words "chat stick" printed on the side of the device.

The Chat Stick has a pricetag of $99.99 (as does Paraben's Porn Detection Stick), and can be ordered here.

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starralazn 04/12/2010 11:38 PM
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scione 04/12/2010 11:41 PM
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"No one would suspect the device can be used to see what they are saying with chat programs when they are using your computer."

... except that the usb says chat stick on it. lol

tayb 04/12/2010 11:48 PM
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starralazn :
really? why is it so expensive.if you cant find those chat logs by yourself, you deserve to be cheated on



That's asinine. If you aren't computer savvy enough to find chat logs you deserve to be cheated on?

cloakster 04/12/2010 11:49 PM
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Anyone smart enough would take the chat logs off when they are having an affair :P

mp562 04/12/2010 11:52 PM
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Really, you need to spy on your "better half"? If you suspect they are cheating on you, 9 times out of 10, they are.

loomis86 04/13/2010 12:03 PM
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spouce?

lol

Dirtman73 04/13/2010 12:03 PM
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What's a Spouce?

one-shot 04/13/2010 12:24 PM
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Instead of worrying about whether your wife is or isn't cheating on you, maybe it's a good idea to pay attention to her instead.

Anonymous 04/13/2010 12:24 PM
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For an extra $749 you can get the companion "Chat club" device made by Ping and made famous by Elin Woods. Each chat club is stamped with its own serial number, is hand-signed by Elin and is encrusted with small particles of Tigers formerly front teeth. Get yours today!

Lantzvillian 04/13/2010 12:40 PM
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Bah.. buy a cheap U3 stick and write your own customized code. Re-image it and presto.

pollom 04/13/2010 1:00 AM
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better solution wireshark :)

bison88 04/13/2010 1:11 AM
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Set up a keylogger if you are that desperate/paranoid/crazy-obsessed-lover. Might as well go big or go home.

tethoma 04/13/2010 1:19 AM
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A niche market for sure, but if you really want this, its probably a good product despite you haters. I would say you may want to pick another color than bright blue with chat stick name written onit.

ct1615 04/13/2010 1:25 AM
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if only it came out a few months prior and Elin used it...

skit75 04/13/2010 1:29 AM
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tethoma :
A niche market for sure, but if you really want this, its probably a good product despite you haters. I would say you may want to pick another color than bright blue with chat stick name written onit.



But then it would be just another USB stick with some malware on it!

copenhagenlc 04/13/2010 2:01 AM
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And you can also use a PFsense box, hmmmm the amazing stuff thats already out

micr0be 04/13/2010 2:29 AM
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disable autorun and that usb becomes an expensive peace of metal

touchdowntexas13 04/13/2010 2:32 AM
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starralazn :
really? why is it so expensive.if you cant find those chat logs by yourself, you deserve to be cheated on



Ummmm I have seen how tech savvy my girlfriend/mom are, and I can say that if someone was trying to hide their cheating from them, they would never find it.

So what does being computer savvy have to do with deserving to be cheated on? I don't really understand that...

FlayerSlayer 04/13/2010 4:16 AM
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But if she's using AIM or GChat, you're screwed?

The Greater Good 04/13/2010 8:05 AM
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If you think you need one of these things, you should just get out of the relationship. It's obvious you have trust issues.

Clintonio 04/13/2010 10:12 AM
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starralazn :
really? why is it so expensive.if you cant find those chat logs by yourself, you deserve to be cheated on


No, but if you're a pompous dbag you probably do. Or if you distrust your spouse enough to care about chat logs in the first place.

guanyu210379 04/13/2010 10:48 AM
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Another useless invention.

1. You should do something more to prevent him/her from cheating you rather than trying to find out if she/he is cheating on you. Something like giving more attention, giving some privacy space, etc....

2. Checking on your partner is also a sign of distrust. If you don't trust him/her, why would you even make the relationship with him/her. Distrusting your partner is the begining of the end of the relationship, so, beware!

3. BTW : You can prevent them from cheating by putting any means of surveilance methods, but you can't stop them from cheating on you in their mind.

I can not even imagine what the use of this thing...it is completely useless...if you use it against your love ones...
But it could be very usefull in the hands of your boss at work. :D


santfu 04/13/2010 12:02 PM
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I agree with most of the comments here. I do feel there is a market for this though, the UK press paints all internet chat as done by kids and paedophiles. So i can see un-tech savvy parents wanting to check up.

Anonymous 04/13/2010 12:19 PM
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one word

ccleaner

isamuelson 04/13/2010 7:59 PM
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$99? I smell a rip off if you ask me. If you pay this much for a USB stick, you deserve to be cheated on.

jkflipflop98 04/13/2010 9:39 PM
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starralazn :
really? why is it so expensive.if you cant find those chat logs by yourself, you deserve to be cheated on



If you can't balance harmonic klystron resonance by ear, then you deserve to be cheated on.

darkguset 04/15/2010 2:00 AM
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Dirtman73 :
What's a Spouce?



It is the past tense of spouse, (to spouse, had spoused, etc)
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