Elite Keylogger

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET Staff on February 27, 2009

This monitoring software quickly and easily monitors keystrokes and PC activity, and it does so using a well-designed user interface. Our only complaint is the short 7-day trial period.

When you first install Elite Keylogger, you'll be asked to select modes--visibility and invisibility. You'll also be asked to enter and confirm a password. The user interface is very easy to navigate and professional-looking. The top of the window has command buttons for customizing filters, exporting logs, and viewing logs. The options menu is a little overwhelming, but from there, you can enter a monitoring schedule, set up snapshot intervals, and manage your password. There is a calendar on the main user interface that lets you quickly select dates for monitoring. For our first test, we viewed the screenshots for the current day. The program instantly produced screenshots with the date and time. We were able to view keystrokes, Internet activity, applications, and e-mail history with a simple click of the mouse. E-mailing the logs was also just as quick and easy.

Unfortunately, you don't have much time to give Elite Keylogger a try. Still, this is a great monitoring program for all user levels.

Publisher's Description

From WideStep Security Software:

Elite Keylogger includes several integrated recording modules that monitor: chats, instant messengers, e-mails, Internet surfing history, keystrokes, programs launched, passwords (including Windows logon password), usernames and time they worked on your computer, desktop activity, clipboard.

#1. Keyboard Monitoring. Keystroke recorder. Elite Keystroke Recorder will record all keystrokes typed, staying completely undetectable to users! Elite Keylogger lets you know what was typed (passwords, logins, addresses, names), in which applications, and who typed it. Password tracker. Elite Keystroke Recorder offers low-core keyboard monitoring with its kernel driver. This helps you capture Windows logon password and all other typed passwords as well! Clipboard monitor. Most users copy and paste logins and passwords instead of typing them manually. Elite Keystroke Recorder will record text copied to the Clipboard as well. Elite Keylogger also grabs clipboard graphics.

#2. Applications Activity. Secretly take screenshots. Elite Keystroke Recorder regularly takes screenshots of the Desktop and applications running, like an automatic surveillance camera hidden from all users. Record applications launched. Elite Keystroke Recorder records all applications launched and the text anyone typed there. You will know the exact time, date, path, window caption and other parameters of the programs launched on your PC. Track printed documents. Elite Keystroke Logger records all documents being printed from the monitored computer. Don't let your employees spend your corporate resources on unnecessary personal prints.

#3. Internet Monitoring. Record websites visited by all users. Elite Keylogger records all visited website URLs and adds timestamps to every entry in the log. No matter which Internet browser is used, Elite Keylogger monitors every website accessed from your computer. Thanks to Elite Keylogger you caneasily protect your children from dangerous online relationships, learn what your spouse is searching for online, or know what your employees are doing on the Internet.

What's new in this version: Elite Keylogger 5.1 now supports Microsoft Windows® 8. This new release of Elite Keylogger is a free for all current users of version 5.0. We also added a number of new features, including improved protection from antiviruses, better remote logs naming, more passwords captured in the Passwords Log, etc.