Activity Monitor can keep track of the activities of both office and home computers, which is very important for businesses to protect the integrity of their data and boost the productivity of their employees. Similarly, this is essential to monitor what your children do when they’re connected to the Internet.
The installer can be run in two different modes: either office or home use. Besides, at a given time during installation, the users need to decide whether they want to install a monitoring console or the server and management console. Also, it’s necessary to install agent software on each client computer. Although the application’s interface is quite nice and intuitive, it’s definitely not easy to use. However, there’s, fortunately, well-structure documentation, excellent online support and even a tutorial video to help you.
If you are an employer, you’ll be glad to hear that this tool allows you to control what websites your employees can access, including social networks. Moreover, it can issue alerts when your company’s policies are violated. In addition, this tool can monitor other activities. In this respect, you can see what keystrokes are being typed, send instant messages, record email messages, and stop any program. Similarly, it can keep track of all the data they copy, save, or download. Finally, it even allows blocking their access to USB storage devices to prevent any information leaking.
In a few words, Activity Monitor provides effective ways to keep track of the actions of your employees. It can also secure sensitive information from being shared over social networks or copied to portable devices.
v6.5 [Dec 8, 2011]
- new: Documents security: records file operations on all types of drives: local, network, removable. Select monitored folders and change other settings in Agent Properties on Files tab.
- new: recognizes external hard drives as removable and records file operations on such drives connected via USB or Firewire 1394 interface
- new: export File operations report to Excel
- new: added "Do not restart remote computer" option for installation of Agent update. Note: will work only for future updates. During update to this version remote computers may still restart to finish installation. It's recommended to update Agent when users are not at their computers
- new: improved and most reliable keystrokes recording algorithm, especially on 64-bit Windows editions
- new: correctly records group chats in Skype
- new: grouped display in Reports Viewer that is easier to read (no duplicate lines).
- new: Next/Previous buttons in Agent Properties window for quick navigation between Agents. Makes it easy to view and change settings for multiple Agents
- new: (minor) Ability to start Activity Monitor minimized to system tray (notification area). To do it: open Activity Monitor shortcut Properties in Start menu or on your Desktop, select Run: Minimized instead of Normal Window; in Activity Monitor Options select Minimize to system tray check box,
- fix: email messages in KOI-8 (Russian) encoding are displayed correctly
- fix: chat in Windows Live Messenger sometimes was not recorded
- fix: minor fixes and improvements
Excellent tool for remotely controlling other computers. It allows you to establish a secure connection to another computer and view programs in text mode
