My uncle and his friend own a business together in real estate and he has a bunch of employees that work for him in their 2 offices. Lately hes told me hes had problems with employees releasing company info, compromising computer security and he also has heard word one employee actually has the balls to download porn and chatting on AIM while at work. I've been looking online for tons of monitoring programs that we can install on the machines that are completely invisible (no system tray icon, start menu directory, doesnt show up in running tasks. etc etc etc). to basically watch what his employees are doing. Basically the employee cant have a single clue its on the machine, cannot be detected as spyware by anti-spyware programs and it has to be able to log websites visited, programs run, IM"s and such, and maybe a few other nice features and maybe for convince the ability to silently email the reports to a main email address. Was wondering if anyone has had any experience with these types of programs and could give me serious feedback.
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computer monitoring programs
- Thread starter DanSan
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i use golden eye. be carefull alot of AV wont like this but its exaclty what you want. has a 30 day free trial so you can try it at home before you buy or install..
http://www.monitoring-spy-software.com/
http://www.monitoring-spy-software.com/
yes exactly what im looking for. Thanks alot, just curious how the different type of Anti-Virus programs will respond to it. Also Golden Eye 4.50 seems to lack the ability to email the reports which is something my uncle said he would definitely like.
what you can do is tell the app to upload all the data to a share drive that only he has access to or FTP even. You can tell Symantec to not scan certain folders im not sure about other AV apps.
Edit: have nto tried FTP so may not work but shared network drive upload does very well. every tyime their PC boots up it transfers the files to a secure location.
Edit: have nto tried FTP so may not work but shared network drive upload does very well. every tyime their PC boots up it transfers the files to a secure location.
Malk-a-mite
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"Basically the employee cant have a single clue its on the machine"
You'd be better off letting all of the employees know that everything they do on the company computers is being monitored. That alone will go a long way in cutting down the problems.
You'd be better off letting all of the employees know that everything they do on the company computers is being monitored. That alone will go a long way in cutting down the problems.
"Basically the employee cant have a single clue its on the machine"
You'd be better off letting all of the employees know that everything they do on the company computers is being monitored. That alone will go a long way in cutting down the problems.
He has. The partner fired an employee almost 2 weeks ago after having to constantly tell employees about these problems
delemorte, the shared drive sounds like it will work well in the office but hes also looking to monitor the companies laptops he gives out to a few employees so the extra email feature would be greatly needed
He has. The partner fired an employee almost 2 weeks ago after having to constantly tell employees about these problems
delemorte, the shared drive sounds like it will work well in the office but hes also looking to monitor the companies laptops he gives out to a few employees so the extra email feature would be greatly needed
Well, the whole "You are being watched ala 1984" thing is more of a watch-your-ass-legally issue. Make sure you (or preferably, your lawyer) add one of those clauses to a Acceptable Use Policy for the computers.
And about the aim, I've worked in real estate. I've seen clients and realtors communicating thru aim. It's not always a personal use issue.
YeOldeStonecat
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Did the networked version of this at a law firm....
http://www.spectorsoft.com/
They have several versions...from stand alone...to a full network version that records workstations and stores on the server for you to watch.
They also have examples of employee computer use policies to implement.
http://www.spectorsoft.com/
They have several versions...from stand alone...to a full network version that records workstations and stores on the server for you to watch.
They also have examples of employee computer use policies to implement.
delemorte, the shared drive sounds like it will work well in the office but hes also looking to monitor the companies laptops he gives out to a few employees so the extra email feature would be greatly needed
Well im not sure about email funcionality as these logs get pretty big. as well i dont know of any software that will do that for certain privacy issues where people could use them on non employee people. But im sure they are out there just never used one. If these feild reps ever step foot in an office you could have the software upload once the laptop comes into the office. you would still get your data just not so real time.
and telling the employees is a must for legal reasons. it will deter then for a little bit but eventually they will do it again.