The Internet has become a powerful and useful tool for communication. It creates a virtual world from which we can learn a lot of things. The Internet allows people to touch the world thousands miles away. But as the rapid advancement and popularity of the Internet; and the unrestricted usage of the Internet leads to unwanted problems for us. Especially teenagers and kids who use the Internet without considering the consequences brought about by the Internet will cause many problems for their parents. Therefore, parents are responsible to master children’s web usage and hold their Internet activities. The goal of keeping track of children’s computer activities is not spying their activities, but ensuring they won’t be targeted by malicious ware that will damage the computer or the victims of cyber crimes. And for people who are running a business, one of problems haunting on their mind is whether company’s confidential or important files may be disclosed due to employees’ misconducts.
To master children and employees’ Internet use, you need to make use of tool that can record computer activities. Keylogger is just one of such kind of program that can assist you to log all activities on the computer.
First of all, let me introduce the widely-used hardware keylogger. Hardware keylogger is a tool that can help your computer avert unwanted stuffs. Hardware keylogger provides people with opportunity to curb unsuitable Internet usage. For example, parents can decide to restrict children’s online chatting with strangers when they found in the logs that some strangers who are alleged online predator harassed your children. There are many guys called as pedophiles or predators who are lurking on the Internet to prey for children. It’s parents’ responsibility to protect children from the dangers and threats of such cyber crimes. What you need to do is to connect the hardware to your computer and then the tool will run once the computer boosts. It’s able to record all the keystrokes typed on the keyboard, and the extensible feature of hardware keylogger is to log visited sites, to snap screenshots and so on. Parents can use this keylogger to record children’s computer activities and then view the logs to judge whether your children are safe on the Internet and whether they don’t disclose personal information to others. And the business admin can also use this tool to keep track of employees Internet usage to ensure their activities don’t damage security of company’s data and information. Hardware keylogger is easy to install and use, but one apparent defect is that the user must physically get back the keylogger to view the logs.
And there’s another keylogger called keylogger software which is a kind of program of the computer. This software is just like other software, you can install it on the target computers and then it will run on the background to record computer activities. And some keylogger software extend to parental control features, so parents can use it not only to record computer activities but also to block sites, applications and limit Internet use time. And keylogger software don’t need physical touch to view the logs, it can send logs via email.
