Spector Professional Edition 5.0 ( Windows ) Description:

Spector Professional Edition 5.0 ( Windows ) review:
5 stars (Works wonderfully) - I've been using this software (and previous versions) for years. It works beautifully and, in spite of a previous reviewer's comments, can be adjusted to capture snapshots closer together. I've had to contact customer support a couple of times, at no fault of the manufacturer, and received an extremely quick response on both occasions.
1 stars (Sounds good, but does not work very well.) - At first, this product seems to work really well. It has many options and setting to get the exact information you want. However, if you really want to use it to monitor computer activity, it falls short. If you have it on a computer with more than one display, it only gets the primary one. It records only outgoing keystrokes for most chat application (except the main ones like MSN and Yahoo). The playback is difficult to use, jumps around, and turns out to be of little actual value as it usually missing the needed view. It also appears to cause a hit on system performance and definitely requires a lot of disk space. eBlaster is a better application; however, it too can be fooled pretty easily.
5 stars (Excellent Internet Monitoring product) - Did you see the one hour segment Dateline NBC recently did on Internet pedophiles?



Basically, Dateline rented a house in a SMALL town and had one of their people pose as a 14 year old girl in a chat room. The girl didn't voluntarily chat with anybody, but did respond to the massive number of people who sent her private messages.



Over the course of just two days, 18 men came to visit the house to try to have sex with the 14 year old girl, all documented on camera by Dateline on their September 24, 2007 episode. I highly recommend viewing the segment.



At the end of the hour, Dateline recommended several products, but none more highly than Spector Pro, which they said recorded everything your child does on the Internet. This includes all their chat conversations, instant messages, emails, keystrokes types, web sites visited, files downloaded, etc. Spector Pro gives you an EXACT visual representation of everything your child (or spouse or employee) does on the Internet, and shows you the entire conversation they have with adult strangers.



Often, your kids don't know when an adult is up to no good, but you have the radar to know these kinds of things.



I can tell you -- Spectorsoft, the makers of Spector Pro, have been in business for about six years, and they have received TWO Editors Choice awards from PC Magazine, the most reputable computer publication on the planet. And as a user of this product, it is easy to use while at the same time extremely powerful in letting you know every single thing your kids are doing on the Internet. My highest recommendation.