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Hello:
I recently installed AIM for my son (seventh grade) to use to IM his school friends. I had previously installed Trillian, which had a feature where I could review his IM; Trillian kept a running record of all conversations that had occured between my son and his IM friends.
Is this feature available with AIM? Sorry if this is a rudimentary question, I didn’t see it on the common questions area. Thanks for your help.
Gary
there are a number of logging programs available for AIM, MSN, and most of the other networks. you may want to check this topic for a logging program – https://bigblueball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20770
gary1 wrote:Is this feature available with AIM? Sorry if this is a rudimentary question, I didn’t see it on the common questions area. Thanks for your help.Not without installing something like DeadAIM or AIM+. AIM itself has no logging capability, so you need one of the things that modifies AIM or runs as a background process to hook into it.
Many AIM add-ons have the ability to add logging, though, so almost any of the ‘extended functionality’ tools for AIM will do what you need.
I believe Google Desktop logs IMs automatically. This is a little easier since you don’t have to worry about using a compatible version of AIM for whatever plugin (add-on such as aim+) that you would need to install. There is a very simple way to keep the plugins from loading, if your son looked into it. I do it when I need to test something, but don’t want to uninstall the plugin.
Using Google Desktop doesn’t sound as sneaky as a plugin for logging, which your son’s friends might tell him about. It’s mainly meant as an easier way to locate files stored on your computer, but it can be used to log IMs within AIM.
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