The Internet opens a world of possibilities for your children that were not available when you were a child, or even as recently as a few years ago.
From a personal computer with an Internet connection, your child has access to almost any encyclopedia, dictionary, book, magazine or newspaper in the world. Your child can chat with friends and relatives, meet new people, learn foreign languages, develop new interests.
There is no doubting the tremendous benefits the Internet brings to your family.
The flip side is that, while the world is at your child's fingertips, the world is also allowed into your home.
While most of these people who come into your home through the Internet are very nice, some of them are looking for your name, your address, phone number, and other personal information. Some are even looking for a child with whom to have sex.
In fact, it is estimated that at least 50,000 pedophiles descend on the Internet every day with one goal in mind: to find a child, strike up a relationship, and eventually meet with the child.
What can you do?
As a parent, you essentially have 3 choices:
- Disconnect your child from the Internet.
- Filter or censor what your child can access on the Internet.
- Monitor and Record what your child does online and whom he/she chats with so that you can better guide your child as to what is appropriate and what is inappropriate.
Option number 1 is like throwing the baby out with the bath water. There is too much value to be derived from the Internet to shut it off, and your child will be at a tremendous disadvantage when part of their homework assignment is to do research on the Internet.
Filtering or censoring is, in our opinion, better than option 1, and until recently, was about your only option. However, there are far too many problems with filtering and censoring.
The first problem with filtering is that it depends on your constantly downloading lists that prevent your child from visiting certain sites. Since thousands of new sites come onto the Internet each day, keeping up is virtually impossible.
The second problem with filtering is that every family has a different set of values about what is objectionable and what is acceptable. There is no way that anyone filter list can be appropriate for all families.
The third problem is that many filtering/censoring products create lists of keywords which, when encountered, prevent you or your child from accessing a site that has that keyword.
So disconnecting your child from the Internet is not a good choice, and filtering/censoring is a poor choice. That leaves the third option: monitoring and recording what your child does online, and whom your child talks to online.
With this option, your child has access to the Internet and there is no filtering or censoring. However, if you inform your child that he/she is being monitored and recorded and that you can review what has been done later, your child will behave much more responsibly when surfing the Internet.
In addition, because you can review with your child their online activity, you can help guide your child as to what is appropriate and what is inappropriate.
In addition, through reviewing chat conversations and e-mails, you can determine whether an adult stranger has been trying to develop a questionable relationship with your child, long before it has a chance to develop into something that could become dangerous.
After examining the options available to address the very real dangers children face on the Internet, SpectorSoft decided that monitoring and recording was the most reasonable option.
when they are surfing the Internet, but we also understand that a parent cannot always be present when the child is online. Spector Pro helps to bridge that gap, by recording what the child does so that the parent can review this at a later time.
Because Spector Pro acts as a video recorder for PC and Internet activity, you will be able to SEE EXACTLY what your child has been doing online. Spector Pro records all web sites visited, all programs run, all keystrokes typed, all chat conversations, and all e-mails sent and received. Spector Pro even records Internet-based e-mails like Hotmail and Yahoo Mail.
Spector Pro as an Employee Recording Tool
Every recent study on the topic of employee surfing on the job comes to one common conclusion: Employees spend TWICE AS MUCH TIME SURFING AT WORK as they do at home.
While Internet access can be a great tool to provide your employees, it also comes with its own set of problems: inappropriate surfing (pornography, chat, instant messaging, etc...), spending too much time on non-work related web sites, leaking company confidential information via email or on anonymous chat boards, propagating racially or sexually offensive emails, utilizing company resources to engage in illegal or unethical activities.
Employees who have Internet access at work average MORE THAN ONE HOUR PER DAY SURFING the INTERNET. Some employees spend THREE HOURS PER DAY or MORE surfing.
Guess what? They're not working when they're surfing!!!!
Spector Pro is designed to significantly reduce or eliminate these problems. To learn more about Spector Pro as a solution for your business, click a topic below:
- Help Desk Tool
- Performance Evaluation Tool
- Illegal Activity Monitor
- Increase Productivity
- Confidential Information Control
- Harassment Prevention Tool
Control Exposure To Legal & Financial Hazards
LOST PRODUCTIVITY is only one of the problems with employees surfing.
POTENTIAL LEGAL LIABILITY is a second major problem.
What happens when employees propagate racially or sexually offensive e-mails and jokes?
What happens if one of your employees using a company computer to seduce a child over the Internet? If they use your computers to gamble online?
LEAKING OF COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION is the third big problem associated with uncontrolled Internet access.
What happens when an employee goes into financial chat sites and starts leaking company secrets? When they create rumors to try to manipulate your company's stock price? When does a disgruntled employee start e-mailing the competition your customer lists?
Spector Pro Takes Control
What can you do about this, short of taking away their Internet access altogether?
You could choose a filtering solution. But filtering is well known to have three major problems: constant updating, preventing access to totally legitimate sites and often allowing access to completely objectionable sites.
You can RECORD what they do with Spector Pro. Spector Pro acts like a hidden camcorder, constantly taking pictures of what each employee is doing, without slowing down their work at all. In addition, Spector Pro will save a copy of all incoming and outgoing email, create a log of chat and instant messages as well as record every keystroke typed!
And how do people act when they know they are being watched? They are on their best behavior. You can expect a significant drop in the kinds of activities that threaten the survival of your company.
With Spector Pro, you will be able to quickly identify the employees who are the worst offenders and have the VISUAL proof to handle the situation in the manner you deem most appropriate.
When you need to KNOW EXACTLY what your employees are doing Online and Offline with company computers, Spector is the tool of choice.
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