XPC Spy Pro 3.33 Review
Advantages:- Grouping of the intercepted information into categories
- Great file-activity monitoring
Disadvantages:- Weak links interception
- Not enough stealthiness level
As usual let’s begin our review from the installation process. The only thing that you should do to install this product is to read and accept EULA, that is all – there are no different modes of installation, no additional questions. The program doesn’t ask to specify the folder of installation, we have found it afterwards, so XPC Spy didn’t receive maximum points for stealthiness, though all the other signs of program’s presence on the PC were hidden greatly – no processes in task manager, nothing in start menu, the installation folder is marked as ‘hidden’. After the program installation there appears a window asking you to create a password, then the new pack of windows appears one by one, asking you to configure the items to log, to specify the hotkey, place for log-files saving, etc, etc. It is clear that the abundance of pre-options cannot be considered as a strong side of any of the monitoring products. Such kind of software should take minimum time to install, and should ask minimum questions at the stage of installation. The window asking for a PC to reboot is also not a plus for the software…
The interface part looks quite nice, it’s very convenient when the intercepted information is not only grouped into categories, but each category also has its own icon , so the interface part of the product leaves only positive emotions.
As to product’s functionality XPC Spy Pro is taking its deserved 13th place, just in the middle of the chart. The program has neither anything to boast of nor can it be considered inferior to others. What should be emphasized is a great file-activity monitoring – not only all the actions except copying are logged, the impressive thing is that while logging the file renaming XPC Spy Pro logs both names of the file – the initial and the final one. It should be noted that the negative side is a very weak URLs interception- all the browsers, except IE, show us nothing in the log-file, there are even no headlines there. Well, this costs XPC Spy Pro 16 points… Unfortunately XPC Spy Pro 3.30 now intercepts only one side of chat conversations made in AIM, YahooIM and Skype. As for ICQ and MSN messengers the result is still great - both sides of all the conversations are intercepted.
Summing up we can say that XPC Spy Pro firmly holds an average rating. It will come in handy to any user provided that there is no need to install it ‘in a hurry’.
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Description from developers
XPCSpy Pro is the most powerful surveillance and monitoring solution for home or office use. This easy-to-use spy software allows you to monitor and record all activities (include keystrokes, websites, system activities, applications, clipboard information, web-mails, chat conversations, capture screen etc.) on your computer in absolutely stealthy mode. And you can read the activities log report at anytime even if you are not around your computer, because XPCSpy Pro can create reports and send them to the email address you predefined or upload them to other computer via ftp.
