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We had SpectorSoft come over for a visit to MNJ Technologies recently. SpectorSoft has been over before and let me tell you, I am scared to death every time I hear their name. SpectorSoft really only does one thing and that is to give your IT admin complete insight into what you do on your desktop or notebook. With this software you can see everything that a single user is doing or you can pull it back and use that info to see what an entire network is doing. Very scary and very informative data. SpectorSoft records: Web sites visited, Online Searches, Emails (including webmail), Chats/IM, Keystrokes, Program Activity, Network Activity, File Transfers, Documents Saved/Printer and Screen Snapshots.

Pros:

-By far the best software that I have seen for monitoring users. This software will give you a detailed list of time spend on each individual site, site/application category, or even screen shots from each site. This includes both active and passive time.

-Very small footprint. Also, administrators can choose if icon is visible to end users.

- Very robust dashboard that can display up to 30 different reports.

- License options: per user, concurrent or subscription

Negs (besides scaring me to death):

-No mobile devices

-Can handle Citrix, but nothing is yet created for VDI.

While I am personally scared by the Big Brother nature of SpectorSoft, I am equally impressed with it’s performance. For whatever your reason: increase in productivity, investigations about violations, policy enforcement, “insider” theft protection, or compliance requirements, SpectorSoft offers a number of different views and reports to make the job easier. A great product who doesn’t really have competition.

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