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.
v8.0 [Dec 22, 2012]
-new: View screenshots in sync with reports in Central Logs Database:
- select a program and view all screenshots for this program in Top Programs report
- select a website and view a history of screenshots taken during visits of this website in Top Websites report
- view screenshots at the bottom of the screen as you navigate through history of used programs, emails, chats, etc.
- double click a screenshot thumbnail in the bottom panel to view it full size
- zoom in/out screenshots, view as slide show
- recommended setting now is to take screenshots from active window only instead of full desktop. It is now default
-new: View History button added in every tab in the Monitoring window that opens Central Log Database for this computer and user
-new: screenshots from remote computers are now downloaded together with logs. Get Agent Screenshots command removed. Click Get Agent Log instead
-new: Options - Location tab: removed folders for screenshots and exports. Screenshots are now stored in the Central Log Database folder under \SCR subfolder
-new: Improved compatibility with antivirus products. Now it's easy to exclude Agent folder from scans in your antivirus to avoid any positive detection with future updates of your antivirus product
-fix: database conversion error on some computers: "error in statement near s"
-fix: Activity Monitor crashed on some computers when monitored PC's IP address changes
-fix: Adobe Reader hanged on some computers with Agent installed resulting in user unable to open PDF files
-fix: compatibility issue with Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus caused extremely slow file downloads and copying
-fix: rare crashes when displaying some HTML email messages
-fix: on some monitored computers Administrator users could find recorded screenshots by searching for jpg files in Windows
-improved: support of more than 65K rows for export to Excel 2007 or newer
-fix: error message on computers with MS Outlook 2010 64-bit about no default email client
Excellent tool for remotely controlling other computers. It allows you to establish a secure connection to another computer and view programs in text mode
