README.TXT 

 Deep Software

 Activity Monitor version 3.01

 This  is  an application for real time monitoring of users activities
 on   network   computers   and   for  employees  work  time  tracking.
 Administrators   can  view  typing  keystrokes  in  real  time,  take
 snapshots  of  the  remote  screen at will, view all running programs
 and  monitor  when  user  switches  between them, copy any files from
 remote PC, view visited web site, terminate processes, control computers
 remotely.
 User's activities can be stored in log file on the remote workstation,
 which can be downloaded later manually or by schedule. Log files 
 can be combined and exported to  many  useful  formats to get reports 
 on how much time users spend  with particular applications, which programs 
 they run with screenshots and keystrokes, what websites they visit, etc.

 PROGRAM FEATURES:

- Real time keystrokes monitoring
- Viewing the desktop from the remote workstations in real time
- Monitor Internet surfing on the remote computers in real time
- Install Agent (software client part) remotely in silent mode
- View running applications list and terminate any of them
- Record activity log on the remote PC
- Autodetect computers with installed agents on a LAN and
  manage computers list
- Analyze logs with MS Excel to get report, e.g. how much user played 
  games or was surfing the Web at worktime and much more
- Configurable logs export to HTML with embedded screenshots
- Configurable logs export to delimited text files
- Download any files, including logs and screenshots from remote PC
- Schedule automatic periodical log file downloads and export
- Shut down or reboot computers remotely, Log Off user
- Send instant messages to monitored computers
- Monitor all users on LAN users simultaneously from one PC
- Agent running on remote PC is difficult to find since it does not
  show up in the task list (on Win9X)
- Run commands/programs on remote computers, open web sites/documents 
  for the remote users to view
- Shut down or uninstall Agent software remotely
- Easy to install and use
- Agent runs on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. Activity Monitor part runs on 98/Me/NT/2000/XP

 INSTALLATION NOTES:

First extract files from zip-archive amonitor.zip:

amagent30.exe
- Activity Monitor Agent. Install it on the remote computers.
  Runs on Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
  Can be installed remotely from Activity Monitor if both computers
  are Windows NT/2000/XP. Click File->Install Agent in AM.
  To install in silent mode run with the following command line parameters:
  /VERYSILENT - do not show user interface. Just install with all default options
  /OldPsw=xxx - old Agent password. Required for reinstalling Agent
  /NewPsw=xxx - set this Agent password. Required for monitoring this Agent,
                uninstalling or reinstalling
  /DIR="x:\dirname" - directory to install Agent. By default it is installed
                      to Program Files\AMSys
  /NORESTART - instructs setup not to reboot computer even if it's necessary


amonitor30f.exe (evaluation version) or amonitor30_lX.exe (for full version)
- Activity Monitor Install it on your computer to
  monitor users. Runs on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP

  Warning!  If  you  have previous versions of Activity Monitor
  you have to reinstall both Monitor and Agent portions.
  Requires TCP IP protocol to be installed on user's and your PC.
  Used TCP IP port numbers: 15163, 15164, 15165, 15166. 
  They should be free and not blocked by firewall.
  For evaluation purposes you may want to install Agent on the same
  computer as the Activity Monitor itself. You may install Agent on the 
  remote computer as well. 


 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.01
- Now Activity Monitor works on NT 4.0
- Fixed bug when exprot to Excel sometimes did not work

 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.0
- This is the major update that includes lots of new useful features
- Install Agent remotely from Activity Monitor on all computers in network
  (Windows NT/2000/XP only. Administrator rights required)
- Install Agent in silent mode, e.g. from log on script
- Schedule log file periodical download from all remote computers and 
  automatic export to get periodical computer usage reports for time saving
- Control remote computers:
  - Run program or command
  - Open web page for remote user to view
  - Open document for remote user to view
  - Turn Off or Restart remote computer
  - Log Off remote users
  - Turn On screensaver
  - Terminate processes/close programs remotely
- Includes all new dpexec.exe utility that allows to start processes on 
  remote computer without having Agent installed there. It can copy programs 
  to remote computer for execution and show results back just like telnet. 
  It works on Widows NT/2000/XP. Start dpexec /? to get help on usage.
- Send instant message to remote computers
- Advanced computers list management:
  - choose between 3 different list views
  - sort list by any column
  - customize columns visibility and width
  - monitoring windows activate as you click on computers in list
  - automatically set columns width for better view
  - easily tile or cascade monitoring windows to see them all
- Monitoring Session Recording. You may record swl-log file locally on
  Activity Monitor computer instead of remote Agent computers. It contains
  all data from monitoring window. 
- If your computer is connected to several networks (has several NICs)
  you can choose which network you want Activity Monitor to bind to
- Restore opened monitoring windows at startup is a great time saving feature
  that will completely restore Activity Monitor view when you restart it
- Set default directories for log files and exported files
- Log file export. New csv-file export appeared instead of txt-file export. 
  CSV files can be easily imported into database or spreadsheet programs
- Automatically export log file after downloading it
- Better and faster screenshot resize (on Windows NT/2000/XP) and scrolling
- Remotely configurable Agent startup warning message. You can tell employees
  that their actions are recorded
- More reliable remote files downloading. Now it does not stop or freezes.
- More reliable detection of remote computers presence. Now they don't go offline 
  in list without objective reason
- Close all monitoring windows at once
- Password is now required (if you set it) to uninstall or reinstall Agent and 
  Activity Monitor.
- Improved installation programs for both Agent and Activity Monitor
- New modern look of icons and toolbar images
- New HTML based help
- Supports Internet browsing history in AOL
- Duration column on Foreground tab in monitoring window
- Lots of minor improvements and bugfixes

 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.6
- New option: Do not make offline screenshots when computer is idle 
- It is possible now to use system variables in path to offline 
  log file and offline screenshots. By default %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32 
  durecoty is used.
- Few minor bugs have been fixed

 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.52
- Offline screenshots feature was fixed

 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.5
- Internet surfning monitoring in real time and offline
- Now works correctly in DHCP environment, when IP addresses can 
  change frequently
- Agent can run in "Aware" mode, informing user that he is 
  being monitored
- Autoreconnect to the remote PC after connection has been dropped
- Clipboard operation on all tabs in monitoring window
- Save the content of any monitoring window tab to the local file
- Few minor bugs are fixed and some minor imporvements are implemented

 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.2

- Fixed bug when computers with autorefresh turned on were disconnecting
  sometimes.

 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.1

- Security improved. Passwords may be used for monitoring computers 
  and to start Activity Monitor. Everyone who wants to monitor some 
  computer has to know it's access password.
- Few bugs fixed.


 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.0

- Offline logging. Logging engine runs on the remote computers all
  the time, even if you are not connected to it. It logs all
  keystrokes and programs activations with time stamps.
  Also it takes screenshots in specified period of time and saves
  them to the local or shared location. When you connect to this
  remote computer with Activity Monitor, you may download those logs and
  screenshots to the local workstation.
- Log export. It is available to export downloaded log files to
  MS Excel for detailed analisys, to HTML files with embedded
  screenshots, to delimited text file for further import to any database.
  All exports are based on tamplates, so you can easily customize
  the look of resulting files.
- Download files. Download any files from the remote workstation.
- Foreground application tab added. When user on the remote workstation
  activates one or another application, it is added to the list with
  time stamp. So you may see user's activity history.
- Active application name is added to the Keystrokes tab, so you can
  see where user types a text now.
- Program has received new name Activity Monitor 2001

 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.6

- StealthWatcher 2000 is now works with most European languages.
  The bug, when user could not type accented charecters on computer
  with StealthWatcher Agent installed, has been fixed.
- In previous version StealthWatcher could not detect or connect to
  some computers on LAN, when TCP IP routing has been used. Now this
  bug is fixed. StealthWatcher 2000 should work in most networks.

 WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.5

- Auto refreshing screenshot and applications list in specified
  period of time.
- Scaling of the screenshot from 1/1 to 1/8 scale with good quality.
  Decreasing screenshot dimensions reduces loading of the remote and
  local computer and reduces network traffic.
- Help system designed.
- Applications list feature now works on Win NT/2000 client computers.
- Hotkeys added to the frequent commands.
- Some toolbar icons changed.


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