Unit 5.3: Other types of computer monitoring methods

SpectorPro by SpectorSoft

Spectorsoft creates software that protects businesses and families by monitoring and reporting on computer and smartphone activity, providing you with detailed, timely, and actionable activity information. Founded in 1998, SpectorSoft is headquartered in Vero Beach, Florida, with offices in West Palm Beach, FL, Park City, UT, and Surrey in the UK. SpectorSoft has been recognized again and again for innovation, quality, and growth by leading industry publications. Their work solutions let companies address the most serious and pervasive security issues: Insider Threats, while helping IT admins address these issues in less time. From focused investigations to powerful intelligence, its all covered. Their home solutions allow concerned parents to keep an eye on their children in the virtual world…just as they do in the real world. And because those worlds are increasingly interconnected.
• Cheap to purchase and very reliable software
• Excellent capabilities
• Same uses as the Spy Cobra however does lack some of the cobras features
• Used by various UK businesses and agencies
• You Need access to target computer to view captured data

eBlaster:
• Similar to Spector Pro however you do not need access to the target computer
• eBlaster Sends periodic emails of all the gathered information to a designated email address
• When the target sends or receives an email you also receive a covert copy of the same email for your own perusal
• You can receive emails with a selected word i.e. “Sex” eBlaster filters emails and sends them on to your selected email

Porn Detection Stick  £89.00 from EyeTek

Search for Pornographic Images on Your Computer.The porn Detection Stick is a thumb drive device that will search through all the images on your computer, scan them for pornographic content, and create a report of suspected pornographic images. It even scans deleted images and Internet cache files so there’s no hiding Internet activity. This means even if Internet Explorer cache files are deleted, many images can still be recovered and scanned for pornography. Best of all, no software is installed on the target machine so they don’t know you’ve performed a search. You can even securely delete objectionable images. Protect your computer from unwanted pornography. Someone doesn’t have to be seeking out pornographic images to contaminate your computer. In fact, many porn sites contain harmful viruses that can do more damage. The Porn Detection Stick offers you peace of mind that your system is clean of unwanted illicit or even illegal images.

Who Needs a Porn Detection Stick?

Parents: The average age a child is exposed to pornography online is 11 years old. They may not be actively searching for it but chances are they’ve run across it and pornography is residing on your computer right now.

Employers: Besides wasted time and resources, pornographic content on your company computers exposes you to legal risks as well as disgruntled employees.

Schools & Churches: Despite Internet filters, pornographic content can easily contaminate your organization’s computers. Whether copied from flash drives or other media, downloaded from e-mail, or simply missed by your filter, unwanted illicit images should be found and eradicated. Probation & Law Enforcement As someone involved in law enforcement, you know how long it can be for digital evidence to get processed by computer forensic labs.

The Porn Detection Stick is the perfect solution for quick analysis to determine if pornographic images are present on a computer without training and without involving forensic examiners.

Product Features
Portable Because the porn detection software is embedded in a USB thumb drive, you can easily take it anywhere and use it on any computer you own. Fast A search of a 500 GB hard drive with over 70,000 images takes only about an hour and a half. Imagine how much time it would take you to manually find and search that many images.

Accurate:The Porn Detection Stick uses advanced image analyzing algorithms that categorize images as potentially harmful by identifying facial features, flesh tone colors, image back grounds, body part shapes, and more. With less than 1% false positive indications, your search for contamination on your computer won’t waste your time.

Deleted Data & Internet Activity Scans: Looking in places you wouldn’t be able to makes the Porn Detection Stick very thorough. Even if images are deleted or Internet history is cleared, you can still recover and scan deleted images and Internet activity making your scans much more effective than manual searches for pornography.