Review of Elite Keylogger Pro
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Advantages:
Logon password detection, great URLs logging, very good interface.
Drawbacks:
No file-activity monitoring, no chats logging.
Summary:
Easy-to-use and greatly hidden monitoring software with a very good interface. The misbalance in its functions doesn't allow us to recommend any specific sphere for it using that means you will need to judge by yourself whether it will fit your needs or not. However we can recommend it to all the types of users as it is really easy to configure and use.
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Installation & interface
Elite Keylogger Pro currently do not have a free trial, so we recommend reading this review before making a purchase in case you are interested in having any additional information about it.
Here are the screens you will need to pass through in order to install Elite Keylogger Pro: Choose installation language (English or Russian) → EULA → Warning → Warning (Create System Restore Point) → Choose Components (Invisible mode, Visible mode, Logs viewer only, Help file only) → Automatic uninstallation → Restart request
As you can see it has two warning screens. The first one tells that the program is 100% invisible however can be detected by conflicting software such as anti-virus, so developers from WideStep recommend closing all the software of such kind for the period of installation. This screen also allows user to configure Elite Keylogger Pro not to show you its unhide instructions after a first reboot. The second warning screen tells user what a System Restore Point is and recommends its creating. However user can choose not to create System Restore Point by unmarking the corresponding checkbox.
One more interesting screen is the "Automatic uninstallation" one. It allows you to specify a period of time Elite Keylogger Pro will be automatically removed from the system. The bad thing in all this that user can choose only among 4 possible options (Never, In a week, In a month, In 3 months) and cannot specify custom date.
One more thing to add — after the installation Elite Keylogger Pro requires OS reboot to start working.
The interface of Elite Keylogger Pro is just perfect. Not only it is nice-looking, it is also made very smart. The information is grouped into sections, the events are separated one from each other and have information about related user, application, windows and timestamp of its happening. Good job, WideStep!
OS support
Official website of WideStep Security Software, developer of Elite Keylogger Pro says it supports Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000. During our tests of Elite Keylogger Pro on Windows 7 and Windows XP no glitches were found in its work. 65 out of 80 points.
Security
In this section Elite Keylogger Pro also shows good result. The software is greatly hidden, password protected and can be accessed by typing a keyword. As it was also said above it can be configured to be uninstall automatically, however one cannot set a custom uninstall date. User can also choose if to show the warning message on system start or not, but cannot change its text. 55 out of 80 points.
Monitoring
Elite Keylogger Pro detects logon passwords. Despite the fact this function is rare, it is present in Elite Keylogger Pro. It also has almost all of the screenshots-related features implemented: user can adjust their frequency and quality and choose if to photo entire screen or active window only. Other features of this section present in WideStep flagship product are the following: logging of keystrokes and clipboard content, system log on time, started applications and documents printed. However the software does not monitor any of file activities listed in our section. 155 of 300 points.
Online monitoring
In few words Elite Keylogger Pro greatly logs URLs visited and emails both send and received. That is actually all in this section. It neither can log chat conversations, nor can be set to make screenshots of visited websites. 97 of 193 points.
Reports
In this section Elite Keylogger Pro almost as perfect as its interface! Only "Several days reports building" feature is absent in the software. User can only generate log-files by day, not for a custom period. As for the rest — everything is implemented. Logs can be remotely sent by all the 4 means of our testing (email, LAN, FTP, flash) and filtered the way user likes. Good job to WideStep again! 134 of 150 points.
Other
Despite the results of Elite Keylogger Pro in previous section this one is way not as good for it. Elite Keylogger Pro cannot restrict launching of websites and applications and doesn't have an option of creating a list of keywords to somehow react on them. What it can (within this section) is to work on schedule. It is also available not in English only, but also in Russian. However developers could go further and translate their software to more languages than these two. 15 of 66 points.
The bottom line
Elite Keylogger Pro by WideStep Security Software is easy-to-use and greatly hidden monitoring software with a very good interface. The misbalance in its functions doesn't allow us to recommend any specific sphere for it using that means you will need to judge by yourself whether it will fit your needs or not. However we can recommend it to all the types of users as it is really easy to configure and use.
Points total: 521 out of 869
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