In Use:
As technology increasingly becomes more vital to our every day lives so too does the need for security. Realtime-Spy offers a simple, yet effective, way to monitor your computer and the computers of others. Through such surveillance you can see what your significant other is doing during their time on the computer or monitor your childs' Internet behavior. Realtime-Spy can also be used to detect any suspicious programs or tasks that may be running on your computer unbeknownst to you.

The comprehensive list of features that are included with the Realtime-Spy will definitely allow you to keep any user of your computers in check. There are, however, a few caveats.

How does it work?
Once you download the software you run the Admin program. From the admin screen you select the options that appeal to you most and then extract an executable program to a floppy or your computer. Once that executable is made you can deploy it on the computer you wish to monitor by simply downloading it to their machine and executing it. After the program is executed it will 1) be completely transparent or 2) notify the user that they are being monitored every time they logon to their computer (depending on the option you selected in the admin screen.

Once the Windows OS load the Realtime-Spy runs itself as svchost.exe which is transparent to the user. The program then logs all of the users' keystrokes, programs opened, etc. into files that are stored on the users' machine and then transmits those files to an ftp server that was specified in the Admin options before the executable was made. The files are uploaded every 15minutes to the server. If no connection to the Internet is available then the files are not sent. Once the files have been sent you can access them via a web brower at the server address. Once you authenticate your account on the server you can view the logs in an easy to use webpage.

When you are done monitoring the computer you can remotely uninstall the software (if they are connected to the Internet).

Running into Some Problems:
The first caveat and probably the most noticeable is that the program is limited to one day of archives. It is true that the monitoring of the computer is 24/7, but after after 24 hours the old logs begin to be replaced by the new ones. You can manually backup the files yourself, but this should be an automated process. If I could change only one thing about this program it would be to allow for daily, weekly, and monthly archives.

The second caveat is that remote monitoring is only possible if the computer is networked. If the computer never connects to the Internet or a LAN then it doesn't FTP the logs to the server for you to review. If you have physical access to the computer then I'm sure you could use Localhost and open port 21 on the machine for it to log to itself, or you could track down the log files that are installed on the computer before they get sent out via FTP. On a positive note, the files are bandwidth friendly so even users on dial-up won't know that they are sending the log files via FTP.