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May 9 2008
Find SoftActivity Reseller section has been added. Allows to find a local reseller of SoftActivity products in your country.

May 8 2008
Spanish and French language sections added to SoftActivity website

April 23 2008
We've added two new sections to SoftActivity website in Portuguese and Italian languages

April 9 2008
German, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese language sections have been added to SoftActivity.com website

March 6 2008
Recent survey by American Management Association reveals that more than 50% of employers fire workers for e-mail & Internet abuse.
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January 31 2008
Activity Monitor version 4.3 released.
- user interface in 11 langauges; support for 64 bit Windows;
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December 20 2007
Activity Logger version 3.7 has been released.
-International keylogger; SSL support
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November 7 2007
A new White paper has been released: "Employee Monitoring: An essential component of your risk management strategy"
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August 22 2007
Quick Start tutorial video for Activity Monitor has been published

Knowledge Base Articles
- SoftActivity software with McAfee AntiSpyware
- Running Activity Monitor with Symantec Antivirus

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SoftActivity Knowledge Base. Running Softactivity monitoring software with McAfee Antispyware

Some anti-virus and anti-spyware programs can detect such SoftActivity programs as Activity Monitor, Activity Monitor Agent and Activity Logger as spyware. To install SoftActivity software you must be the owner of the computer or authorized by the owner. In this case you may easily add SoftActivity programs to Exclude/Ignore/Exceptions list of your anti-spyware. Most of such programs provide such lists. McAfee calls it Trusted Programs.

SoftActivity Activity Monitor and McAfee security software


McAfee Antivirus 2006 does not detect Activity Monitor or Agent as security threat. McAfee AntiSpyware 2006 may detect part of Activity Monitor Agent only when user runs computer scan. If you knowingly installed Activity Monitor Agent on and you own this computer or have owner's authorization, you may easily disable warnings in Antispyware.
To disable it click Trust button as shown on sample screen below. It will add Activity Monitor to Trusted Programs list and will not detect in future scans.

Activity Monitor with McAfee

SoftActivity Activity Logger and McAfee security software

Unfortunately there is not way to exclude folders or programs from scan in AntiSpyware 2006 until it detects the program. You need to install and run Activity Logger first.
McAfee AntiSpyware 2006 may detect Activity Logger when it's installed. It will show a warning like the one below identifying files in Program Files\Activity Logger folder as parts of potentially unwanted program.

Activity Logger with McAfee

Click Trust this Program to ignore Activity Logger in future. But

Then Scan in McAfee AntiSpyware 2006. When you run Scan it may also detect other parts of Activity Logger as shown on the screen below.

Activity Logger with McAfee

Click Trust on all detected programs as all shown parts are from Activity Logger.
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