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- Deep Software
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- Activity Monitor version 3.01
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- This is an application for real time monitoring of users activities
- on network computers and for employees work time tracking.
- Administrators can view typing keystrokes in real time, take
- snapshots of the remote screen at will, view all running programs
- and monitor when user switches between them, copy any files from
- remote PC, view visited web site, terminate processes, control computers
- remotely.
- User's activities can be stored in log file on the remote workstation,
- which can be downloaded later manually or by schedule. Log files
- can be combined and exported to many useful formats to get reports
- on how much time users spend with particular applications, which programs
- they run with screenshots and keystrokes, what websites they visit, etc.
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- PROGRAM FEATURES:
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- - Real time keystrokes monitoring
- - Viewing the desktop from the remote workstations in real time
- - Monitor Internet surfing on the remote computers in real time
- - Install Agent (software client part) remotely in silent mode
- - View running applications list and terminate any of them
- - Record activity log on the remote PC
- - Autodetect computers with installed agents on a LAN and
- manage computers list
- - Analyze logs with MS Excel to get report, e.g. how much user played
- games or was surfing the Web at worktime and much more
- - Configurable logs export to HTML with embedded screenshots
- - Configurable logs export to delimited text files
- - Download any files, including logs and screenshots from remote PC
- - Schedule automatic periodical log file downloads and export
- - Shut down or reboot computers remotely, Log Off user
- - Send instant messages to monitored computers
- - Monitor all users on LAN users simultaneously from one PC
- - Agent running on remote PC is difficult to find since it does not
- show up in the task list (on Win9X)
- - Run commands/programs on remote computers, open web sites/documents
- for the remote users to view
- - Shut down or uninstall Agent software remotely
- - Easy to install and use
- - Agent runs on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. Activity Monitor part runs on 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
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- INSTALLATION NOTES:
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- First extract files from zip-archive amonitor.zip:
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- amagent30.exe
- - Activity Monitor Agent. Install it on the remote computers.
- Runs on Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
- Can be installed remotely from Activity Monitor if both computers
- are Windows NT/2000/XP. Click File->Install Agent in AM.
- To install in silent mode run with the following command line parameters:
- /VERYSILENT - do not show user interface. Just install with all default options
- /OldPsw=xxx - old Agent password. Required for reinstalling Agent
- /NewPsw=xxx - set this Agent password. Required for monitoring this Agent,
- uninstalling or reinstalling
- /DIR="x:\dirname" - directory to install Agent. By default it is installed
- to Program Files\AMSys
- /NORESTART - instructs setup not to reboot computer even if it's necessary
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- amonitor30f.exe (evaluation version) or amonitor30_lX.exe (for full version)
- - Activity Monitor Install it on your computer to
- monitor users. Runs on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP
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- Warning! If you have previous versions of Activity Monitor
- you have to reinstall both Monitor and Agent portions.
- Requires TCP IP protocol to be installed on user's and your PC.
- Used TCP IP port numbers: 15163, 15164, 15165, 15166.
- They should be free and not blocked by firewall.
- For evaluation purposes you may want to install Agent on the same
- computer as the Activity Monitor itself. You may install Agent on the
- remote computer as well.
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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.01
- - Now Activity Monitor works on NT 4.0
- - Fixed bug when exprot to Excel sometimes did not work
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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.0
- - This is the major update that includes lots of new useful features
- - Install Agent remotely from Activity Monitor on all computers in network
- (Windows NT/2000/XP only. Administrator rights required)
- - Install Agent in silent mode, e.g. from log on script
- - Schedule log file periodical download from all remote computers and
- automatic export to get periodical computer usage reports for time saving
- - Control remote computers:
- - Run program or command
- - Open web page for remote user to view
- - Open document for remote user to view
- - Turn Off or Restart remote computer
- - Log Off remote users
- - Turn On screensaver
- - Terminate processes/close programs remotely
- - Includes all new dpexec.exe utility that allows to start processes on
- remote computer without having Agent installed there. It can copy programs
- to remote computer for execution and show results back just like telnet.
- It works on Widows NT/2000/XP. Start dpexec /? to get help on usage.
- - Send instant message to remote computers
- - Advanced computers list management:
- - choose between 3 different list views
- - sort list by any column
- - customize columns visibility and width
- - monitoring windows activate as you click on computers in list
- - automatically set columns width for better view
- - easily tile or cascade monitoring windows to see them all
- - Monitoring Session Recording. You may record swl-log file locally on
- Activity Monitor computer instead of remote Agent computers. It contains
- all data from monitoring window.
- - If your computer is connected to several networks (has several NICs)
- you can choose which network you want Activity Monitor to bind to
- - Restore opened monitoring windows at startup is a great time saving feature
- that will completely restore Activity Monitor view when you restart it
- - Set default directories for log files and exported files
- - Log file export. New csv-file export appeared instead of txt-file export.
- CSV files can be easily imported into database or spreadsheet programs
- - Automatically export log file after downloading it
- - Better and faster screenshot resize (on Windows NT/2000/XP) and scrolling
- - Remotely configurable Agent startup warning message. You can tell employees
- that their actions are recorded
- - More reliable remote files downloading. Now it does not stop or freezes.
- - More reliable detection of remote computers presence. Now they don't go offline
- in list without objective reason
- - Close all monitoring windows at once
- - Password is now required (if you set it) to uninstall or reinstall Agent and
- Activity Monitor.
- - Improved installation programs for both Agent and Activity Monitor
- - New modern look of icons and toolbar images
- - New HTML based help
- - Supports Internet browsing history in AOL
- - Duration column on Foreground tab in monitoring window
- - Lots of minor improvements and bugfixes
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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.6
- - New option: Do not make offline screenshots when computer is idle
- - It is possible now to use system variables in path to offline
- log file and offline screenshots. By default %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32
- durecoty is used.
- - Few minor bugs have been fixed
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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.52
- - Offline screenshots feature was fixed
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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.5
- - Internet surfning monitoring in real time and offline
- - Now works correctly in DHCP environment, when IP addresses can
- change frequently
- - Agent can run in "Aware" mode, informing user that he is
- being monitored
- - Autoreconnect to the remote PC after connection has been dropped
- - Clipboard operation on all tabs in monitoring window
- - Save the content of any monitoring window tab to the local file
- - Few minor bugs are fixed and some minor imporvements are implemented
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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.2
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- - Fixed bug when computers with autorefresh turned on were disconnecting
- sometimes.
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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.1
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- - Security improved. Passwords may be used for monitoring computers
- and to start Activity Monitor. Everyone who wants to monitor some
- computer has to know it's access password.
- - Few bugs fixed.
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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.0
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- - Offline logging. Logging engine runs on the remote computers all
- the time, even if you are not connected to it. It logs all
- keystrokes and programs activations with time stamps.
- Also it takes screenshots in specified period of time and saves
- them to the local or shared location. When you connect to this
- remote computer with Activity Monitor, you may download those logs and
- screenshots to the local workstation.
- - Log export. It is available to export downloaded log files to
- MS Excel for detailed analisys, to HTML files with embedded
- screenshots, to delimited text file for further import to any database.
- All exports are based on tamplates, so you can easily customize
- the look of resulting files.
- - Download files. Download any files from the remote workstation.
- - Foreground application tab added. When user on the remote workstation
- activates one or another application, it is added to the list with
- time stamp. So you may see user's activity history.
- - Active application name is added to the Keystrokes tab, so you can
- see where user types a text now.
- - Program has received new name Activity Monitor 2001
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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.6
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- - StealthWatcher 2000 is now works with most European languages.
- The bug, when user could not type accented charecters on computer
- with StealthWatcher Agent installed, has been fixed.
- - In previous version StealthWatcher could not detect or connect to
- some computers on LAN, when TCP IP routing has been used. Now this
- bug is fixed. StealthWatcher 2000 should work in most networks.
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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.5
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- - Auto refreshing screenshot and applications list in specified
- period of time.
- - Scaling of the screenshot from 1/1 to 1/8 scale with good quality.
- Decreasing screenshot dimensions reduces loading of the remote and
- local computer and reduces network traffic.
- - Help system designed.
- - Applications list feature now works on Win NT/2000 client computers.
- - Hotkeys added to the frequent commands.
- - Some toolbar icons changed.
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