What Is Spy Tool

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Spy tool in general words can be defined as a utility, which enables you to audit activities of people. For example, CCTV camera is a type of spy tool, as it helps keeping an eye on the activities of people. Today, CCTV cameras are installed in almost every commercial building, airport, railway station, shopping malls, and offices too. With the help of CCTV cameras watching people activities become easy. This is about spy tool in general. Let us be specific about spy tool in terms of computers.

Yes, spy tools are also used in computers for the purpose of fetching information about the activities going on a computer. Such tools are mostly used in organizations, cyber cafes, and educational institutes to audit activities of employees, visitors, and students respectively. Following are the facts related to the usage of computer spy tool:

1. Organizations use spy tool to mitigate wastage of time, to find out the employees wasting time in personal activities, to find out the culprit sending organization's crucial information out, and to know why output has been reduced.

2. In cyber cafe this tool is used to ...
... confirm that none of the visitor use Internet for illegal activities like transferring country's important information to other country, spreading offensive content among children, etc.

3. Educational institutions use spy tool to make sure that none of the student waste time on Internet by playing online games, chatting, surfing social networking website, etc. They need to make sure that Internet is used only for educational purposes only.

4. Parents use this tool to make sure that their children are not involved in watching porn online, wasting time on Internet, playing gambling online, and other such activities.

Depending on the requirements, spy tools can be used for different purposes. Such auditing tools work as another eye for employer, owner of cyber cafe, teacher, and parents. Using this tool, they can watch activities of the computer user LIVE i.e. in real time. As soon as an activity will be done on a computer, a snapshot of that activity will be displayed on the computer of the person who is monitoring user's activities.

A computer spy tool comes in a package of two setup files. First one is Agent and second one is Viewer. Agent can be installed on N numbers of computers; for example, if you want to monitor computer activities of 100 users then you have to install agent on all computers. However, viewer should be installed on single computer i.e. the computer from where you want to audit activities of other computers.

After you have installed agent and viewer on respective computers, you have to make sure that network connectivity and network speed is good. This is because the success of spy tool depends on the network connectivity and its speed. Better will be the connectivity and speed, best will be the output i.e. you will get snapshots of users desktop activities in real time. Spy tool can be installed on Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows 2000 for monitoring activities of computer users.

About the Aouther: Author of this article has specialization in writing on topics related to monitoring users' computer activities, using spy tool, etc. His articles provide in depth information about using computer spy tool to audit users' computer desktop activities.