HomeGuard Professional

If you are a parent to young kids or teenagers who can be easily influenced you would like to monitor whom they come in contact with. Now it is not enough to know about their friends in the real world as you need to keep an eye on the virtual world too. Today social networking sites and chat applications allow children to connect with numerous people, and some of them may have ulterior motives. Given the scenario one must invest in a computer monitoring tool like the HomeGuard Professional 1.9.3 which can give you detailed information about activities being performed on a targeted system. Moreover it also gives you the chance to restrict access to objectionable websites or applications which you believe can be counterproductive.

After you launch the HomeGuard Professional 1.9.3 application you are greeted with a neat interface that houses a whole array of options with the list of systems being tracked getting displayed on the left pane. To know more just select a system and click on the relevant tracking option from the top pane. The tool gives you the chance to know the keystrokes being entered into the targeted system. It also allows you check the programs that are being used in real time and takes screenshots of targeted machines at set intervals. By clicking on the Records tab, you can quickly check on previously captured information while Websites tab lists all the visited sites for quick reference. The tool also gives you the option to block any application and even disable USB drives.

On account of its rich set of features and its capacity to monitor multiple systems at one go, we mark the HomeGuard Professional 1.9.3 application with a score of four rating stars. The tool is rather handy for school administrators or small business owners who need to enforce a web access policy in their organization.

HomeGuard professional is an easy to use software with extensive monitoring and blocking features for tracking and controlling the use of computers in home and office networks. HomeGuard records web activity and automatically blocks all adult and inappropriate content in websites in addition to customizable website block and allow lists and filtering based on file type (e.g.: exe downloads).
It also records detailed reports on usage of programs including active usage time, run time, bandwidth used, mouse clicks and keystrokes typed in each program with the option to block or time limit certain programs or games. Plus screen capture, periodically or based on specific events, chat and email monitoring and filtering, printer and USB devices monitoring and blocking, Internet time restrictions, network connection monitoring and filtering, email notifications and more.
Monitoring Data collected by HomeGuard on monitored (client) computers can be viewed remotely using the HomeGuard server component which keeps a main database of monitoring records that is securely and automatically synchronized with client computers with support for compression and 256-bit strong encryption of all data transfered over the network. The server component runs as a Windows service and can also be used to remotely change monitoring and blocking settings.
HomeGuard runs, by default, in stealth mode completely hidden and undetectable, however, it can be set to show warnings to users when anything is blocked. Either way it is uninstallable, unclosable and cannot be bypassed using proxy servers.