Review of iSafeSoft Keylogger
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Advantages:
Intercepts visited websites greatly, supports various Windows operating systems, including Windows 8, can record sounds.
Drawbacks:
Doesn't log file activites, logs only one side of chat conversations.
Summary:
An easy-to-use keylogger with nice interface. Supports various Windows operating systems, including Windows 8 and is available in English only. Its functionality is enough for home monitoring.
Installation & interface
The installation process of iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro is the one we like the most — we double-click the installation file and the keylogger does the rest. No questions are asked during the installation, only nice windows are shown.
The look of iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro is very nice: the colors are soft, the icons are pleasant to look at. The interface of keylogger consists of two windows: the first one is called "Console", the second one — "Log Console".
A so-called "Console", is some kind of an action center, where you can see the current status of a keylogger, configure its functioning, and perform other actions related to keylogger's management. At the top of the "Console" window, there are 5 tabs, namely "Status", "Setting", "Screenshot", "Log" and "Update". Switching between the tabs changes the content of the main part of the window in appliance with tab's name. For example, "Setting" and "Screenshot" tabs allows configuring the monitoring and screenshots-making options of iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro, while "Update" tab allows updating it. The most interesting, in our opinion, are "Status" and "Log" tabs. The first one not only shows the current status of the keylogger, but also the number of events logged, per type grouped into tiny nice boxes, each with a separate icon — all looks very nice. As for the "Log" tab, it shows the chart of events logged, giving a clear impression on what the time was spent. Very handy!
"Log Console", that is a Log Viewer, has a ribbon interface and is very easy to use. The ribbon on the top contains three tabs, namely "Recording", "Report" and "Help". Switching between the tabs allows performing various actions with corresponding type of data. The main window of "Log Console" consists of two columns. The left column is tiny and contains the list of event types logged. Clicking any of the event types shows the corresponding data logged in right part of the window.
That's not all the elements of "iSafe Log Console", yet describing even them allows us to say that the Log Viewer is very handy to use.
In general, the interface of iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro is great! It is easy-to-use and is very pleasant to look at!
OS support
The hero of our review, iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro works perfectly in all the operating systems listed in our comparison, including Windows 8!
So, the keylogger gets maximum in this section, which is 97 out of 97 points!
Security
The situation of iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro is not as perfect in this section, as in previous. The keylogger is password-protected and can be accessed by pressing a hotkey combination. Its processes are hidden in Task Manager, so as its Startup entries and installation folder. Additionally, the keylogger can be accessed by typing a predefined keyword.
Unfortunately, iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro can't be configured to be automatically removed on a pre-specified date. Additionally, it not only doesn't allow configuring the text of a warning message, shown to a user, under monitoring, but doesn't have an option of showing this message at all! The keylogger can't be pre-configured before the installation and can't send emails protected by SSL to any email addresses, except Gmail.
In this section iSafe All In One Keylogger gets 80 out of 125 points.
Monitoring
The strongest point of iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro in this section is screenshots-making. The keylogger not only allows its user to configure the period of their making and their quality, but also allows choosing whether to photo the entire screen or an active window only. The option of making a screenshot per mouse click is also present in this keylogger. The weakest point of iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro in this section is file-activity monitoring. The keylogger monitors none of them.
As for the rest of the features of this section, the keylogger logs both typewriter and system keys pressed, mouse clicks, clipboard content, started applications and documents printed. It also have a feature of microphone's logging, which is very rare among the participants of our comparison. Unfortunately, iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro doesn't log the system logon password, system logon/off and inactivity time.
The keylogger scores 148 out of 300 points in this section.
Online monitoring
As in the previous section, iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro leaves a controversial impression in this one. Among the weaknesses of the keylogger in this section are inability to log the client-based emails, and only one side interception of chat conversations in text. By "in text" we mean that the log files of chats have outgoing messages written as text, and the screenshots of the chat conversation where we can see the incoming messages. Unfortunately, in order to get points for chat conversations proper logging, the keylogger should have both incoming and outgoing messages shown as text, not as screenshots.
What is good in this section is how iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro logs the websites visited. During our tests this keylogger logged all the URLs visited in all the browsers, taking part in our testing. Another handy feature of this section iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro has implemented is "Screenshots of visited websites" Well done!
90 points out of 176 in this section!
Reports
The results of iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro in this section are the following. It can be configured to monitor not all the PC user, but specified ones only, it allows performing a keyword search in its logs and allows specifying the period of days to show the log files for. It also allows specifying the maximum size of its log files and allows configuring logs' automatic clearance. One more important feature is ability of iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro to send the log files by email or FTP, which are the handiest logs' delivery methods among those that are present in our testing.
Unfortunately, the rest of the logs' delivery methods in our testing (via LAN or by copying to a portable device) are absent in iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro. Taking into account the ability of a keylogger to send the log by email or using FTP server, we do not think its a big problem for keylogger's users. What might be uncomfortable for the user is that the keylogger doesn't show the duration of events and can't be configured to monitor only the applications from a pre-specified list.
In this section iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro scores 91 out of 150 points.
Other
In this section iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro gets point only for "Reaction to a specific keyword", because of its "Smart Sense Capture" that creates a screenshot every time a keyword from a pre-specified list is typed.
As for the rest of the features of this section, they are absent in iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro. It can't work on schedule, block programs and websites from opening and is available in English only.
The result is 15 points out of 66.
The bottom line
Summing up we can say that iSafe All In One Keylogger Pro is a keylogger with very nice interface with functionality enough for performing monitoring of a home computer. Additionally, despite of the absence of some of the parental control features, this keylogger can be used for monitoring kids' online safety.
Points total: 521 out of 914
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