Cyber Snoop 3.0

Once Cyber Snoop is installed on a system, administrators will need to spend some time configuring it. In testing, we found the spreadsheet-style interface convenient for adding or restricting specific Web sites. (One timesaving feature is the ability to import a text file of permissible or impermissible sites.) You can also filter Web content according to the PICs rating system. Another useful ability is that you can also add specific words that will be restricted. (You could, for example, stop block e-mail messages from being sent that have "job" or "resume.") The product also lets you customize the message shown to the user when a violation occurs.

What's impressive here is that Cyber Snoop not only logs Web sites visited, but also e-mail, ftp and chat rooms--virtually every Web access by PC users. Besides logging URLs and users, the product will recover the actual Web page content (and e-mail or chat message) sent. Reporting is done in a spreadsheet, which lets you sort by a variety of criteria. The product also exports to text (or HTML) for use with other packages.

Monitoring employee Web activity is a fact of life for most businesses today, and Cyber Snoop provides a good range of features that are both unobtrusive for the user and quite powerful for the administrator. --Richard Dragan

Amazon.com Product Description
It is generally agreed that it is desirable to keep our children away from influences that we, as parents and teachers, consider negative. At the same time, we do not want to stop our children from learning and exploring the vast and rich educational resources that are available to them on the Internet. Cyber Snoop offers parents a way to view Internet activity and, if necessary, restrict that activity to whatever level deemed appropriate by the parent. Cyber Snoop allows your children to explore while giving you invaluable insight into their activity. Using this knowledge, you can educate your children on appropriate online behavior and head off possible ensuing dangers.