SpyAgent 5.2 Reviews

All Spyware Reviews Software: SpyAgent Review Posted: Sep. 7th 2004 Developer's Site: SpyTech	Feature Set
	Ease of Use
	Ease of Installation
	Effectiveness
	Help/Documentation
Spy Agent 5.2	Overall Rating

SpyAgent Reviewer's Comments

SpyAgent, from SpyTech, is an excellent product. The product has more features than any of the other products reviewed. SpyAgent uses graphical menus presented in a way that makes it very easy to get to the information you are looking for. Some might argue that 28 options are too many, but the way colors are used in the product, it is very easy to use. The installation allows you to accept the default settings supplied with SpyAgent, or you can customize each and every setting.

Feature Set:
The keystroke recorder in SpyAgent allows you to see everything that is typed, including your chat conversations, Instant Messaging, and emails (both incoming and outgoing on POP3 and SMTP). With the keystroke recorder, you can read the text typed into an email or a document, but it also includes showing things such as a tab function or an enter key. Sometimes it gets a little confusing reading the logs because of all of the special controls imbedded within the text logs. Good or bad, the keystroke recorder also allows you to see logins and passwords that have been used since the monitoring began.

SpyAgent can send you updated activity reports to a specified email address or FTP them to a particular location. You get to choose how often you want the reports sent to you and what is included in the activity reports. If you don't get your emails, you may need to change your outgoing SMTP setting in SpyAgent to send the emails through your own ISP.

Ease of Use:
SpyAgent is extremely easy to use. As an added bonus, SpyAgent is one of the few spyware monitoring products that includes filtering options as part of the package. The filtering is for doing basic filtering of specific keywords and websites, or blocking of applications and ports related to chat and Instant Messaging. This filter is not a full-blown filtering system that you would expect to find in a dedicated Internet Filter. SpyAgent also has a really nice events viewer, that lists all events on a computer as they are performed.

Ease of Installation / Setup:
This product is easy to install.

Monitoring Effectiveness:
It has a very good stealth mode feature. If you don't want anyone to know the application is running in the background, the stealth mode allows you to completely hide the application. You can't even see the application running when you display the Windows Task Manager, by way of the CTRL-ALT-DELETE combination. It is easy to re-display the application with certain hotkey keystrokes that you can customize for easy remembering. One related feature is the ability to disable any spyware detectors. It also has a lock-down feature that prevents any activity from occurring on the computer during certain times of the days.

Help/Documentation:
The Help is excellent. It contains context sensitive Help on most pages and also has online access to additional Help and frequently asked questions.

Summary:
SpyAgent is an excellent product that doesn't slow down your computer. NOTE: SpyTech, the manufacturer or SpyAgent, also offers another application called SpyAnywhere. This application allows you to remotely control any PC that has the SpyAnywhere application loaded. Combined with SpyAgent, the two products make a powerful monitoring and surveillance tool.

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