PC Police Generation 2 2.5

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

This program logs keystrokes, visited sites, launched applications, and chats, but its functionality is somewhat limited. PC Police can't block applications or sites, nor can it take screenshots. It also suffers from a very limited trial, which allows only five uses of the program. Uninstalling left several files on our test machine, although the publisher provides a separate uninstall utility. You access the program by typing a command into the Start > Run dialog and then entering a password. We would prefer hot-key access to the program, as similar utilities offer. To make matters worse, anyone who knows the names of the processes can shut down the utility in the Task Manager. On the upside, the program delivers complete logs, with a keyword, application, and Web-browser history. It also logs chat for Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and ICQ IM clients, and can e-mail the logs to you. However, we found several program actions took an inordinately long time to execute, hinting at either excessive resource usage or instability. Those problems, combined with the lack of hot-key access and screenshots, keeps PC Police Generation well behind its competition.

Publisher's description

From Digital Future :

PC Police Generation is a complete secret keylogger, chat monitor, Internet tracker, file logger, and program recorder for Microsoft Windows. It utilizes advanced and powerful features such as remote monitoring and action alerts. The logged data is protected and encrypted for high security. The main program is password-protected. The logs can be exported to four file formats and printed in a friendly format. The new version update contains valuable patches and upgrades for PC Police Generation for monitoring the newest versions of Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Nescape Navigator. It also contains an improvement for multi-user logging in Windows XP. Version 2.5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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