SoftActivity's Keylogger allows you to keep tabs on your children, students or staff by creating detailed report of their activities. Loaded with powerful features, a simple install and a simple but effective interface SoftActivity's Keylogger is nearly perfect.
Keyloggers have evolved over the years from simple keystroke watchers to fullyfledged surveillance suites. Without question, the SoftActivity Keylogger keeps up. With a bucketload off features, a reasonable price and reasonable stealth, SoftActivity Keylogger offers almost everything you could ask for from a keylogger. It should however be noted that this is a single unit solution. If you want to monitor full network activity you should check out SoftActivity's Activity Monitor (review coming soon).
Installation was quick and easy, requiring only minimal user intervention.
Users are prompted to set a password, and to set initial settings. These settings include install location, password, screenshot capture settings (discussed in features section) and registration information.
The biggest draw of SoftActivity Keylogger is its massive feature list. SoftActivity Keylogger's user reports include a huge amount of information including:
- Most used applications
- Most viewed webpages (tested with both Firefox 3.0 and IE7)
- IM conversations
- Application Use (including keystrokes, for instance passwords)
- Email information (usage statistics, and sent/recieved messages)
- Login Times
- Log file emailing (can be scheduled or one time)
- Smart screenshots (basically screenshots with every new mouseclick)
As you can see, this so called 'keylogger' is far more than just that. Better yet, it allows you to narrow down this information by date and export the data as a customized Excel, CSV (comma seperated value) or HTML document.
SoftActivity Keylogger can track data for multiple users, and switching between them is as easy as clicking a sidebar button (see user interace below).
In short, SoftActivity's Keylogger is the most fully featured keylogger on the market today.
SoftActivity Keylogger's interface is made up of two main screens.
The Control Panel and The Report Viewer
These are both well layed out and simple to use. A keylogger does not require eyecandy, and SoftActivity obviously realizes this. The control Panel gives access to settings involving Logging, Screenshots, Log File Emailing, Security and Advanced Features through a series of tabs. Likewise, the report viewer gives access to all of the features included in the list above in a similar tab system, while providing access to different user accounts through a sidebar located on the right.