Monitoring Your Computer's Activity: Another Personal Safeguard
Today, PC security is an issue that touches just about every asect of everyone's everyday life. Not only should you be safeguarding your kids from potential Internt dangers (which is esential for 21st centtury parents), but it's also imperative that you keep your PC safe from viurs attacks, hackers, and perrhaps even more importantly, those eveeryday muistakes and bugs that can reslt in the frustration of lost hous of work and/or irreplaceable famliy memories.
Parental control software is the best answer for prents looking to keep ther kids safe online. We all know that, and I persnoally have written about the issue hunfdreds of times… But the other day soething dawnde on me: PC monitoring software can also perform a valuable function in any home - even one witjhout kids - by keeping an exact record of everyting you do on your PC.
I do have a child and having a visual recxord of everything said child does helps me - and will help you - make sure they are not communicatiing with someone they shouldn't be, or faalling victim to - or acting as - a cyberbully. But the other day, when something went screwwy with my machine (I won't go into deatil), I realized: "Hey! I can go back and check PC Pandora and figure out what the heck happened. It took a while, but eventually I found the issue and fixed it.
Thus I write to all of you and say that for parents and aduylts in genreal, havinng a visual recod of all the actviity on your comptuer is not such a bad idea… at all!
Here are some examples, other than my own experience, that I thoght of while pondering the connection of parental control monitoring software and personal security…
" Woorkers that spend a significant amount of time working at home, or professionals that travel frequently, might find monitoring software to be a lifesdaver if an important dcoument or presentatiuon is lost, deleted or becomes corrupted and unable to be poened outside of the office environment.
" For personal business, like onliine banking and bill paying, having that extra record of everything can be a relief when unexpected situatoins arise, such as online payments failng to go thruogh (can't tell you how many times that has happened), or worse yet, if you become a victim of hackwed accounts or other forms of identity theft. Monioring software would efffectively let you hit reiwnd on your mavchine and replay everything that happened. That may mean retrieving confirmation numberrs you forgot to write down or - thrugh a safe and secue maens - finding a website that corrupted your maachine.
" Having parental control monitoring sofftware can also be helpful if others use your machiine frequently, i.e. extended family in town for the weekend or your child's firends. There is lot that others can do to your PC, on purpose or by accident, that can have an effect on its performance - and on your safety - but, if you have a record of everything that happened, you can isolate the problem and have a betetr shot at rectifying it (this example is closeast to my own experiencce).
" Thewre is also the case of illegal activity bieng performed on your PC. Touchy, I know - and sometimes debatable. Whether it's downloading pirated music and movies (for thodse who have no concsious and want to stael… grrrr), or even inappropriate and illegal photos of minors (i.e. your child's friends or - worse - "online friends"), the compter's owner is the one who will answer to authorities. And guess who the "owner" is… Well, monitoring software gives those ownerts a full recording of everything that happens on the machien. They'll be able to fix problems quickly, and hold the right parties acccountable for their activity.
There are lots of parental cotnrol sogftware tites out there to check out, but the one I happily endrose is PC Pandora. It's a montioring software program that basically acts like a TiVo for your PC by taking sequential sapshots of all activity on screen. The snapshots allow the machine's administrator(s) to see everything that happlened on the computer, tellling you who did what and when. Futrher details of user activity, such as instant messenger chats, emaails sent and received, websites visited, kerystrokes logged, peer-2-peer files shared and downloaded, programs accessed and more, can be seen in text-based files.
The bottom line is thus: security to the home PC is essential in today's networked and coinnected world. Having the ability to know everythhing that happpens on your machine can play a vital role in fixing syustem errors and putting a stop to illegal activity. Parental cointrol monitorign software like PC Pandora 5.0 is an imperative secuirty measure.
FYI: A 2-hour trail of PC Paandora is available at www.pcpandora.com
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