Stealth Keylogger 5.5 Review
Stealth Keylogger is user activity monitoring tool with good functionality. Because of the variety of functions present it can be used for different types of monitoring. Its interface is clear, so the keylogger is easy-to-use and no additional knowledge is necessary.
Advantages:- Pleasant to look at, user friendly interface
- Multi-OS support
- Ability to copy log-files to a portable device
- Configurable self-removal
- Great file-activity monitoring
- System-inactivity time recording
- Great visual surveillance
Disadvantages:- Weak URLs interception
- Not enough stealthiness level
- One side interception in messengers
Installation process is very simple, the program can be installed only in stealth mode, so it doesn’t ask you where and in which mode it should be installed, doesn’t ask you to create a password, to choose whether to install any shortcuts, etc. What is also very important – it doesn’t ask a user to reboot his PC. All this allows the software to be installed in about 4 seconds, that cannot but be appreciated. After clicking ‘Finish’ button the window asking to enter the default password appears. After typing in the word ‘user’ appears another window giving us the information about the default hot key combination and the default password and warning us that for security reasons we will need to press the hot key and enter the password each time we need to access the program. That’s a positive point.
The interface of the program is the same, as in the previous version. It is separated into two halves : the left one is smaller and is divided into sections, after clicking one of the sections its content appears in the right bigger half of the program window.
Unfortunately program’s functionality is changed for the worse. Stealth Keylogger 5.5 was tested with the newest versions of MSN, ICQ, AIM and Yahoo instant messengers and with Skype. Unfortunately the program intercepts both sides of conversations made in MSN and Yahoo messengers only. What also became worse in the program is URLs interception – Stealth Keylogger 5.5 intercepts URLs made in Internets Explorer only. (the previous version also intercepted links in Safari though). The rest of the function aren’t changed – ‘File-activity monitoring’ , ‘Log transfer options’ and ‘Visual surveillance’ functions are as before implemented just greatly – Log file can be delivered by all the means taken into consideration in our testing, other two sections would also have received maximum if the program could log the copying of files and make on-mouse screenshots. The program also has a series of rare functions such as ‘Configurable self-removal’, ‘System inactivity time recording’. Such functions as ‘Ability to make screenshots of visited web-sites’ and ‘Logs copied to a portable device’ were already mentioned but we would like to accentuate the fact that they are difficult to find in the majority of monitoring products.
Unfortunately despite the fact that some functions are now lost (though we hope not for a long time) nothing new is added – there is still no ‘Parental control’ and emails interception in Stealth Keylogger. As for the stealthiness rate – its level is still the same - the program folder can be found with the help of turning on the showing of hidden files and simple Windows search, though the program is still totally invisible in Task Manager, System Tray and Start Menu, its directory is hidden.
Summing up we can say that Stealth Keylogger will come in handy to all groups of monitoring software users. This is still a very advanced product with both good functionality and stealthiness level. We wish Amplusnet to fix all the errors appeared in this version and improve Stealth Keylogger’s results in our testing.
Description from developers
Stealth KeyLogger is an invisible, easy to use surveillance application, designed to monitor and record all activities on a computer.
Perfectly suited for both office and home use Stealth KeyLogger offers detailed information on who uses your computer, their e-mails and chat conversations, the visited web sites, programs run as well as actual screenshots of their activity and keystrokes history.
Stealth KeyLogger display reports in web format or secretly sends them to a specified e-mail address.
Features:
- Keystrokes Recording
- E-mail Recording Web
- Sites Recording
- Chat and Instant Message Recording
- Application / Program Recording
- Snapshot Recording
- File Monitor
- E-mail Reporting and Alerting
When running, Stealth KeyLogger is not visible in Program Files and Task Manager. For extra security Stealth KeyLogger has a password protected interface and hot-key combination for accessing the application. Also all recorded information is stored in a secret, encrypted file.
