Activity Monitor 5.5 Build 587

The system consists of server and client parts. Activity Monitor server can be installed on any computer in the entire LAN. Remote spy software (Agent) is a small client program that is installed on all computers on the network you want to monitor. It can be installed even remotely from the PC with Activity Monitor on it or via Active Directory Group Policy in a Windows domain.

Any computer in the network under control can be spied remotely. You may tune this computer monitoring software so that it will record activity on all networked computers. This information can be later used for the deeper analysis and advanced report generation.

Activity Monitor has proved its excellent efficiency in increasing the overall productivity of the establishments where it was used to track the local networks. This powerful tool from Softactivity saves your money. 

1. Increase personnel productivity instantly.
   • Eliminate personal use of Internet, Email, IM and social networks at work
   • Prevent viewing of inappropriate content by employees at work
   • Stop employees wasting work time on computer games
2. Protect your company from legal lawsuits & reduce liability risk.
   • In most jurisdictions, employers hold some form liability and accountability for the actions of their employees. You need to monitor their communications
   • Employees can sue the company for a hostile workplace environment if they are unwittingly exposed to inappropriate or offensive materials on company computers or harassment via email, for example
3. Protect your company from fraudulent activity.
   • Employees often have access to sensitive personal information which can either be misused by the employee or sold on to a third party.
4. Protect from intellectual property and trade secrets theft
   • A recent study by Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute found that 75% of IPT’s were carried out by current members of staff.
5. Keep records of your company’s electronic communications
   • For some companies/organizations retention of records can be a regulatory compliance requirement
   • Collected records can be used in an internal investigation if such need arises

Major Features:

1. Live view of remote desktops. 
   • You may easily have a look at any user’s desktop.
2. Easy Internet usage monitoring. 
   • Web surfing history logging. Real time tracking and recording of all URLs visited in browser.
3. Monitor software usage. 
   • Monitor programs usage activity in real time. With this feature you know what programs and for how long your network users use during the day.
4. Record activity log for all workplaces in one centralized location on main computer with Activity Monitor installed. 
   • Central Log Database stores typed keystrokes, programs usage info with time stamps, application path and window names, visited web sites, email, IM messages and more.
5. Store complete history of communications for every user.
   • Emails sent and received by employees . Supported:
   • unsecure POP3/SMTP in all email clients. This includes most sent and received email in Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, The Bat and all other mail programs
   • Microsoft Exchange email in Outlook 
   • secured POP3/SMTP email in Outlook 
   • IMAP (secure and unsecure connections) email in Outlook 
   • Webmail can be seen on series of s and keystrokes log
   • IM chats in popular instant messengers. You can see both sides of all conversations (). Instant messenger clients supported:
   • MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger
   • Yahoo messenger
   • Skype 
   • AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) 
   • ICQ
   • IRC
   • Messages typed in all web forums, chat rooms, social networking, webmail can be seen on a keystrokes log and series of s.
6. Track any user’s keystrokes on your screen in real time mode. Passwords, email, chat conversation - you have the full picture! 
   • SoftActivity Keylogger module supports all international characters including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic, etc.
7. Take snapshots of the remote PC screen with SoftActivity's IntelliSnap™ technology. Easy spying without your presence. Time-sorted history of the activity in compressed JPEGs on your computer.
   • Screenshots recorded on all computers can be stored in one centralized location on main computer;
   • IntelliSnap™ technology takes s based on user actions, versus just time intervals;
   • With IntelliSnap™ you will see s of every web page visited, every instant message, email and webmail messages the person was reading or sending, and more
8. Completely secure solution (Improved!)
   • Only managers authorized with password can connect to a remote computer
   • New! Network communications are encrypted with SSL
   • Central Log Database is strongly encrypted to provide access to reports only for authorized managers
   • Strong encryption of log files located on monitored computers, so users can’t view or modify them
9. Total control over the networked computers. Start or terminate remote processes, run commands, copy files from remote systems. You may even turn the computer off or restart it, not to mention logging off the current user. 
10. Deploy Activity Monitor Agent (the client part of the software) remotely from the administrator's PC to all computers in your network.
11. View reports based on Central Logs Database with SoftActivity LogViewer
    • Top Programs report for every user shows in what applications users spent their working computer time.
    • Top Websites report for every user on the network combined with complete Internet history
    • View all email and chat messages sent/received by users
    • Search reports and filter by date interval 
    • Easy to understand reports in HTML format for viewing in browser. 
    • Export logs to MS Excel for advanced analysis. View total picture of what programs users work with. 
12. Several managers in the organization can use Activity Monitor to track users in their departments.
    • New! One computer can be monitored by more than one administrator at the same time
13. Multilingual international features
    • Activity Monitor user interface is available in 12 languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean
    • Can display email, chat, other reports and record keystrokes is any language. Activity Monitor is a unicode program
14. Others:
    • You see it instantly on your screen when users type text on their computers.
    • Autodetection of all networked computers with Agent installed.
    • Monitor multiple employee computers simultaneously from a single workstation in LAN . Free evaluation version allows monitoring of only one computer
    • Workplace surveillance software part, running on the monitored PC, is difficult to find for an employee as it runs completely invisible. Users can not terminate Activity Monitor Agent in Task Manager without Administrator user rights, not see recorded logs
    • Install, uninstall or stop Agent spy program remotely from the administrator's PC.
    • Automatically download recordings files from all computers on a scheduled basis and store them in central database.
    • Automatic update of Agents on all remote computers from Activity Monitor. There is no need to reinstall client on all computer when new version is released.
    • Easy to install and use.

• Intel the  Pentium 233 MHz or equivalent (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or newer)
• For monitoring module (manager's/administrator's PC): Microsoft the  Windows 7; Microsoft the  Windows Vista; Windows XP; Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008;
• For monitored computers (Agent module): Microsoft the  Windows 7; Microsoft the  Windows Vista; Windows XP; Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
• Both 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows are supported
• 128MB of RAM (Recommended: 512MB or more)
• Hard Drive Space:
• • Activity Monitor: 100 MB or more for recording logs for longer periods or more computers. About 50Mb per computer
  • Agent on monitored computers: 50 MB or more for local recordings
• Network connection to the monitored computers (Recommended: 100Mb LAN). Monitoring over a VPN connection is also supported.
• Both Workgroup and Domain network configurations are supported as well as a simple peer-to-peer LAN.