• Program Activity + Blocking

  Is your child spending more time playing games than doing school work? Is your employee surfing the web and playing online poker when she should be working? Knowing what programs are being used is the first step to understanding if time is being spent productively on your computer.

  SpyBuddy will quietly observe every program (or application) that is opened and record extensive information about the user's activity within that program. In precise detail, you will be able to see how many times each program was opened and how long the program was actually used, as well as a complete outline of all the activity within that program.

  If you find that a program is being used that should not be, with a single click of the mouse you have the power to block any application from being used by simply adding the program to your block list.

• Chat And Instant Messages

  Is your child talking to strangers online or being bullied by a classmate? Is an employee spending countless hours at the office chatting with friends of co-workers? How can you be sure that time is being spent safely and productively on the internet?

  You need a solution that will monitor every conversation in detail for your review at a later time. With SpyBuddy, you can keep a watchful eye and record both sides of every chat and instant message conversation. SpyBuddy is designed specifically to continually record the latest versions of all the popular chat services including AIM, MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, ICQ, and Yahoo Messenger and gTalk v1.0.

• Chat Blocking

  At any time, you can prevent the users' of your computer from chatting by using SpyBuddy's built-in chat blocking feature. When enforced, SpyBuddy will effortlessly refuse any attempt by the user to access a chat program on your computer. Chats are blocked using a proprietary technology developed by ExploreAnywhere that is completely tamper-proof and will intelligently block chats using various advanced techniques. This sophisticated technology ensures that access to both chat programs and the ports they communicate over are completely shut down.

  Chat blocking is currently compatible with AIM, AIM Express, MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, ICQ, and Yahoo Messenger.

• Web Activity + Downloads

  Consider SpyBuddy your own personal all-seeing internet watchdog. SpyBuddy silently analyzes and documents every piece of information that is transmitted from the World Wide Web into your computer. This information is revealed to you in a detailed report that outlines what websites have been accessed what content specifically they have been viewing.

  SpyBuddy is capable of recording every websites visited, every image viewed, and every file downloaded such as video files, torrent files, illegal music files, pirated software, compressed archives, gambling software and potentially dangerous programs.

• Websites Blocking

  The internet, while very resourceful, is filled with inappropriate content that is more than easy to stumble upon or waste hours of time on. We understand this and that is why SpyBuddy includes a very flexible website blocker that puts the power of moderating unwanted content at your fingertips.

  Simply select what content in particular you would like to block (Such as Gambling, Pornography, Celebrity Gossip, or Sports News) and SpyBuddy will ensure that the content will never show up in your web browser again. There are currently 55 different categories containing over 25 millions web pages in our database that is updated and maintained daily. This is included with your purchase of SpyBuddy for FREE.

• Clipboard Activity

  The clipboard receives a lot of very important information that is often overlooked. Pertinent data such as phone numbers, names, addresses, itineraries, and much more are copied to the clipboard on a daily basis. Anytime a user on the computer copies something to the clipboard, SpyBuddy reacts immediately by obtaining this data and storing it for you to review at a later time.

• Screen Shot Recording

  To get a clear picture of what your child or your employee has been doing on the computer, you need to see exactly what they were looking at on the computer while it was being used. With SpyBuddy, you record screen captures of everything on the entire screen as frequently as you would like. In doing so, you will see a complete visual representation of what users have been doing on the computer.

  Reviewing screen shots is a breeze with the included elegant DVR style playback toolbar. It's very simple: sit back, click play, and watch in real time the activity visually represent itself in front of you. At any time you can rewind, fast forward, jump to a different frame, pause, stop, or resume playback with the single click of a button. Furthermore, screen shots can be saved into a variety of image formats or sent to the printer at any time.

• Keystrokes Typed

  As soon as your computer is turned on, SpyBuddy's advanced keystroke logger is ready to record every keystroke typed - even at the Windows® Login screen! Simply put, when a key is pressed SpyBuddy will capture it. Not limited to just alphanumeric characters, SpyBuddy will also record system keys such as the Windows® Key and keystroke combinations such as Shit and Ctrl. Keystrokes typed into password boxes that are represented as "*" on the computer screen are accurately recorded as well.

  SpyBuddy makes it especially easy to view every keystroke that has been typed. That's because SpyBuddy records the user that typed the keystroke, the current program being used, the window being typed into, and the exact time the keystroke was typed. With a few clicks of the mouse, you will have a complete overview of everything that was typed on the computer.

• User Activity + Logins

  SpyBuddy keeps detailed records of all activity for every user on your computer. Immediately upon startup, SpyBuddy will record the username and password (if applicable) of the user logging into Windows®. Once the user logged into Windows®, SpyBuddy becomes highly perceptive of user activity and precisely records when users are actively using the computer versus when the computer is "idle" and not being used. This report is displayed in an easy-to-view chart.

• Online Searches

  Is your child searching for illegal music files or searching social networks instead of doing school work? Is your child researching a topic of inappropriate subject matters, or even worse, contemplating suicide? Is your employee spending more time searching for a new car, a new house, or maybe even a career change?

  Anytime a user on the computer performs a search in search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Facebook, or MySpace, SpyBuddy will secretly intercept their search term and record it for you to review at your convenience.

• Print Activity

  Is your child wasting expensive ink by printing unnecessary documents? Is you employee or loved ones printing confidential documents? Anytime a document is sent to the printer, SpyBuddy reacts immediately and intercepts this pertinent information relating to the document being printed and saves this information for your review at a later time. Information recorded includes the user that printed the document, when and what time the document was printed, the title of the document printed, the Program that printed the document, the name of the destination printer, and how many pages in total were printed.

• Keywords Detection

  One of the most powerful and unique features included with SpyBuddy is its ability to manage a list of keywords to constantly be on the lookout for. It's simple, really. Keywords are added to your "watch list." From that point on, SpyBuddy will continually look for that word to be typed, to be mentioned in a chat or e-mail, or to appear in a URL or webpage. If SpyBuddy detects a keyword, it is marked in red and highlighted in the activity reports so you can quickly jump to that section of the report to investigate the content further surrounding the keyword detected.

Supported Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows Vista (32 bit only)
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2003
Microsoft Windows 2000

Minimum System Requirements

Intel Pentium or equivelent processor
256 MB RAM
100 MB Free Disk Space
An internet connection