Sentry PC | Complete Parental Control And Monitoring Tool
Following is review of Sentry PC Parental Control and Monitoring tool. We advise you to read complete review before you make your decision to make purchase.
Sentry PC is complete Parental Control and Monitoring tool. Its PC control and monitoring capabilities are great to control and monitor activities of children and employees. Since it is parental control and monitoring tool it only posses features of primary Spyware. But along with basic spyware features full parental control (with automatic control option) and monitoring capabilities this software it damn good for all parents to buy. The best part is along with all above features this tool costs you just $49.95 which is comparatively less as compared to other parental control and monitoring tools which hardly offer half of its features and are priced $70 or $80 for yearly license or $30 to $40 monthly.
Following are spyware features that are provided in Sentry PC,
- Key Stroke logging
- Desktop Screenshots
- Website usage and history
- Event logging
- Program logging
- Program Interaction Window logging
Following are parental control features of Sentry PC,
- Keyword and website filtering
- Control over children access
- Time scheduling and management to allow or disallow child/employee to use computer for specific time
- Start up warning message
- Application access control
The best thing in Sentry PC is its automatic website filtering, for using this feature you have to activate Sentry Net feature while setting up. Sentry Net has huge database of porn sites, racism site, profanity sites and other sites which are not appropriate for children. By activating Sentry Net you'll free yourself from entering website and keyword details because Sentry Net updates its database everyday and automatically blocks all inappropriate websites.
Following are monitoring features of Sentry PC
- Keystroke monitoring
- Program, events and time-line monitoring
- Web monitoring
- Application Monitoring
It also have some security features like stealth mode, encrypting log files, password protection.
So here's overall rating 4.0/5
Marks provided for strong and automatic parental control and monitoring for relatively cheap price.
Marks deducted for,
- No browser based monitoring
- No live screen monitoring
- User interface may confuse few people who aren't tech freaks
