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Omniquad Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition
The Personal edition is intended for home computers and laptops. To read about the Enterprise edition for networks please click here.
Introduction
The very fact that
Desktop Surveillance is
running on a system can be a deterrent to misuse.
Charles O’Neal.
Chief of NASA Internal Security
Kennedy Space Center
With Desktop Surveillance, a little workplace surveillance can now head off huge problems
later.
Washington Post
16 November 1998
Desktop Surveillance - a comprehensive computer monitoring program
New York Times
27 July 1998
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Omniquad Desktop Surveillance is a powerful Monitoring and Access Control tool. We offer Desktop Surveillance Personal edition, which has been designed with the home user in mind. This product allows you to supervise and monitor web surfing, e-mail, chat rooms, game-play and other activities taking place on your computer in your absence. If you need to supervise the use of the computer by children or some one else, use Desktop Surveillance!
The application runs as an invisible agent, which unobtrusively captures keystrokes and records screen contents for replay. The program also compiles activity reports that will include all user activities: web sites, chat rooms, newsgroups, games, files and folders. You can view reports of the collected data at leisure when you are back, or data can be immediately sent to you by e-mail or FTP.
Key Benefits
Give access to the wealth of information available on your computer and the Internet, while providing a safety net. You can customise the system so that all the information is within reach, while harmful content is inaccessible. This means that other people can use your system while you stay in control.
Why Desktop Surveillance Personal?
- Know what your computer is used for in your absence
- Prevent computer and Internet misuse
- Protect children or young teenagers
Prevent misuse by blocking illicit material or unwanted or harmful activities from your computer and avoid exposure to undesired material.
Home users today want to ensure that the family computer is not misused by accessing adult content, chat rooms, private e-mail, online shopping, etc.
Parents want to restrict game play and Internet access, or have control of what sites are accessed on the Internet.
The Internet offers access to things you do not want your children exposed to, from pornography and violence, to chatting and newsgroups. But if you are not there all the time supervising them, nothing really keeps them from wandering into these areas unsuspectingly or through curiosity.
With Desktop Surveillance Personal you will know what your computer is used for, and you can customise usage by blocking access, which means that you can take control over how your system is used.
Key Features
Two Modes of operation
1. Misuse Prevention. - Users are aware of the system running. It is commonly used to prevent unsolicited activities. A custom message can be displayed for users and a permanent icon can be displayed as a reminder that monitoring is in progress.
2. Stealth Surveillance - for security reasons, users are not aware of the system running. There are no warning messages and the application name is also removed from the Windows Task List.
Multiple Monitoring Facilities
- VirtualVideo©
The VirtualVideo© is the software equivalent of having a video camera trained on the users' monitors, but without the need for any hardware. The recordings are a series of screen captures, taken at predetermined intervals, which are dated and grouped by user. These recordings, presented in a slide show format, can be viewed in real time or can be viewed at a later date. The recordings allow you to see exactly what the user sees. This includes E-mail, Chat Room and Web page content, Program Interfaces; error messages, etc. Everything the user did can be played back.
- Keystroke Scan
Keystroke Scan measure users' keyboard activities. The Keystroke Scan reads the raw keystroke data and logs the information in text-file. This type of recording offers a foolproof way of keeping track of written work on your computer. Typing any adult-related or user-specified words on the keyboard can automatically prompt the VirtualVideo© facility to turn itself on and start recording.
- Smart Activity Log
The Smart Activity Log is an intelligent textual logging tool that creates a text log of all activity on a workstation. Smart Activity Logs store statistical information about all activities taking place on any workstation, Internet web site, application or document. Omniquad Desktop Surveillance provides realistic information about users' usage patterns as it differentiates between various loaded applications and logs only the ones that have had user input. Various activities also time-out when there is no input for a specific period of time - stored information is automatically adjusted. The statistical information stored in the Smart Activity Logs can be used to analyse specific usage patterns. The quantity of reports that can be generated from various combinations of Activity Logs is almost unlimited.
- Keystroke Triggers
These are based on the raw keystroke data entered by a user. For example, you may want to start recording when someone else than you types your password, or when someone types a predefined illicit keyword. This manner of triggering recordings offers a level of security unique to Desktop Surveillance.
- Adult Content Filtering
Content filtering is based on word-phrase matching and will detect adult content when it is accessed, without the need for updating blocking lists. The word-phrases can be customised on per-group or per-user basis and include undesirable material such as lottery or sports.
The word-phrase filtering can be fully customised and is active on all levels and will not only cover Internet browsing, but also newsgroups and Internet Relay Chat (IRC). When adult content is encountered, several steps can be taken: it can be blocked, the administrator can receive a network alert and the Virtual Video can be turned on or the system can be shut down.
- Blocking
Omniquad Desktop Surveillance is capable of preventing the user from accessing adult content, accessing banned web sites, loading specific applications or documents, browsing specific folders in Windows Explorer or even changing workstation configuration. - Virtually any activity can be banned.
The administrator can also train the system and identify only permitted activities - the user will be prevented from doing anything else. If necessary, this can be limited only to the Internet, on pre-approved business-related web sites. Users will no be able to load any other web pages.
- Lockdown
This enables you to automatic shut down the computer when an event is triggered. For example, if someone starts playing a game, or tries to access the Internet, the Lockdown feature will ensure that your computer shuts down. In order to gain access to the computer again, a password must be entered.
Try Omniquad Desktop Surveillance Personal Edition today - download your free 30-day trial!
The trial version does not support stealth mode.
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