Programs designed to monitor user activity. They may be used with or without consent. Because it is sold commercially, many anti-virus vendors do not detect them. The most common form of a commercial monitoring tool comes in the form of a keystroke logger, which intercepts keystrokes from the keyboard and records them in a log. This can then be sent to whoever installed the software, or keylogger, onto the machine. Some Commercial Monitoring Software may take screenshots or video and send the information to an outbound connection.
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WatchDog is a monitoring spy software.
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WatchDog software from Rhombus Technologies has the features mentioned below:
1) Key Log Capture. It captures all the keystrokes typed on your PC. You can monitor what your employee is typing on the keyboard. It would give you a list of applications run by the employee. You would be able to know if he is working on the job on hand or passing his time. That's the kind of spying software we are offering.
2) Instant Messenger Capture (MSN AOL & YAHOO). Time is money. And your employees' time is your money. If they chat that would mean they are not working. Sometimes for official reasons chat has to be allowed in an organization. Even employees communicate with each other on chat and with your clients too. But you can keep a track of time they spend on chat each day and with the help of this spying software, can easily track someone who has nothing to do with chat and has logged on.
3) Application Log Capture (All application's titles). This utility keeps a track of all the applications being run on your system. You can keep a track of all the sites visited by each and everyone in your organization. WatchDog software creates a list of all the applications by order of visit per day so that you can monitor who went to which site and when.
4) View all the PCs in your network remotely (without the knowledge of the remote user) and even control then if you want (this will be visible to the user). You can do what you want with all the PC's in your organization. You can monitor all the activities from your desktop without the knowledge of the user. You can view his screen incessantly and see what he is typing on the keyboard, which files he is opening, which programs he is running and what kind of data he is saving. View the chatting, take snapshots. All in all watch him while he works.
5) Shutdown or Restart PCs in your network remotely. You can shut down all the PCs from your desktop or restart them anytime you want to. If you need to start a PC and want to locate some file saved on your employees system you can do by starting the PC remotely and search for the file or do whatever you want to do with the system.
6) Ban websites, which will disable the PC from visiting any websites having the banned word. Every employer is concerned with two things, visit no porn sites and visit no job sites. Porn kills times and Job Sites can cause to brain drain. You have to take care of each and everything. Why to take a chance and why to catch your employees doing all this when you can bar them from doing anything against your wishes right from the outset. Use WatchDog software to ban all the websites you don't want your employees to visit.
7) Deleted Files Log giving you information of all the files deleted by all the users of your network. Why would anyone delete any files from the system? There are only two reasons either the files are unimportant for the organization or the files are really important to the individual. You can keep a track of all the files deleted by your employee with time and name of the file and it's location.
8) Machine Master It allows you the full flexibility to reach out to any machine you want at any time.
9) The client is a stealth application, which is not visible on ctrl-alt-del, cannot be deleted once it is started and restarts automatically on windows startup. Although it's legal to monitor your employees but still the best way to find what one doing is to not them let know what's happening in the organization. If one knows that he is being monitored he would not do anything. That is good too but you have to know who's good and who's bad, as you cannot monitor everyone till eternity. That is why WatchDog software or the spying software is a stealth application, designed to work on any platform without the notice of the user. It starts automatically on start-up and doesn't show up in any program list even by pressing ctrl-alt-del.
10) It's a powerhouse with a 3MB file for the server and a 1.5MB file for the client, which can be remotely installed using a login script so that you need not go to each machine to install the client individually.
11) You can also use the option of the client e-mailing you the log if you are not expected to be near the server module for a long time. But use this with caution as it may result in a lot of emails, considering that one email is sent per day from each client.
