Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition 6.0.3

If you are a home user and would like to keep on eye on how your spouse or your children use the computer, then you must search for the right piece of software and use it in your endeavor. The right piece of software in this situation is the Omniquad-developer Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition.

What is Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition and what can it do for you? Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition is a powerful monitoring and access control tool; by using it you can supervise various activities that take place on our computer. Even if you are not there to see what your computer is used for, you will know what happened thanks to Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition.

Here is the sort of functionality you can expect to get from Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition:
- Captures keystrokes and takes screenshots at specific intervals of time.
- Compiles activity reports that include all user activities (visited websites, chat rooms, newsgroups, launched games, accessed files and folders). These reports can be sent via FTP or email.
- Keystroke triggers – Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition starts recording when certain keystrokes are entered.
- Adult content filtering
- Block access to adult content, banned websites, certain applications, certain documents, and even certain folders in Windows Explorer.
- Have Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition automatically shutdown the computer when a certain event takes place (like when someone tries to access the internet, or tries to launch a game). Once the computer is shut down, it is on lockdown; access to the computer will be provided only after a password is entered.

Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition has two modes of operation: Misuse Prevention and Stealth Surveillance. While in Misuse Prevention mode, the fact that Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition works in the background is obvious. You can even set up a custom message that will be displayed to further remind the user that his or her actions are being recorded. While in Stealth Surveillance mode, the user has no indication that Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition is running in the background.

To keep an eye on computer usage and block access to just about any activity someone can do on Windows, you need only use the powerful monitoring and access control tool Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition.

Pros

• Easy to use
• Block access to files, folders, websites, adult content
• Secretly monitor computer usage or set up custom message to remind the user that he’s being watched
• Logs can be sent by email

Cons

• Free to try (30-day trial)

About Omniquad
Founded back in 1995 and headquartered in London, Omniquad is a security software company that has come up with several software solutions for Internet, email and network security. Additional details about Omniquad and the products the company has to offer are available here.

Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition has been reviewed by George Norman on 29 Aug 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent