eBlaster 5.0

by SPECTORSOFT

Product Features

• Dependable, full-featured remote surveillance software
• Receive copy of email seconds after it was received or sent
• Records Internet and PC activity; comprehensive email reports
• Easy for computer novices to install and use effectively
• Robust and secure for the most demanding businesses

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0001Q2588
• Item model number: 12377-00002
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 6, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,901 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Robust and secure for the most demanding businesses, yet easy for even computer novices to install and use effectively, eBlaster, the dependable, full-featured remote surveillance software, provides both instant-notification email and chat alerts, along with comprehensive hourly and daily email reports of their Internet and PC activity, including emails sent and received, both sides of chats and Instant Messages, every keystroke typed, sensitive words and phrases, programs launched, and Web sites visited. Within seconds of them sending or receiving an email, you will receive your own copy of that email. eBlaster is the monitoring software of choice when you absolutely, positively need to know exactly what your employees or family members are doing online--even if you are thousands of miles away.

Product Description

eBlaster is the most dependable, full-featured remote surveillance product available from the worldwide leader in Internet monitoring software. Robust and secure for the most demanding businesses, yet easy for even computer novices to install and use effectively, eBlaster provides both Instant Notification Email and Chat Alerts. Time-sensitive events - such as employee email transmission of company confidential information or a molester's chat room advances directed toward your son or daughter - require immediate action.That's why eBlaster 5.0 employs Instant Notification to provide you with an EXACT copy of every email, chat, and instant message. This internet monitoring software features the ability to capture and forward key words and phrases you determine are particularly sensitive. This computer surveillance records and INSTANTLY forwards incoming and outgoing emails, including Hotmail, Yahoo mail, AOL email, MySpace webmail, Outlook, Outlook Express, and Microsoft exchange email. This web monitoring software acts at the moment an email is sent or received and then sends a copy to the email address you specify. This eBlaster permits you to "pick and choose" the emails you wish to see, using a powerful filtering function designed to save you time and the frustration of sorting through unimportant correspondence. This network spy software records URLs of all web sites visited. eBlaster will record every keystroke typed on the computer. eBlaster includes a monitoring tool capable of providing a comprehensive overview of all applications used on your home or office PC. When a user at the monitored computer logs on or logs off, eBlaster will record the activity and include it in your Comprehensive Scheduled Activity Report.eBlaster features stealth technology. eBlaster does not initiate connections to the Internet and will only forward email and send activity reports when the monitored computer is already connected to the Internet.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just OK, February 24, 2006

By 

Adam Fishburn "Adam" (Kalamazoo, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: eBlaster 5.0 (CD-ROM)

I've been using eblaster 5.0 for about 2 weeks now and it's been helpful but it has holes.

The keystroke logger is limited to about 512 characters. I didn't know this when I bought it. This limitation is disclosed in the help files, but is not plainly disclosed in the advertisement of the product and I think it should be. So if your child/spouse types a long email message, you only get the first 512 characters or so.

Of course, captured keystrokes aren't important if eblaster 5.0 forwards you a copy of incoming and outgoing emails. But this points out another weakness: at least in my case, eEblaster 5.0 cannot grab any emails sent or received from an email server behind a corporate firewall. I use Citrix on my home PC to access my employer's email server. Eblaster 5.0 does not capture either the incoming or outgoing mails generated from that server. Keystrokes are captured, but it's only the first 512 characters, and keystrokes only pertain to the outgoing message, not the incoming message.

Another weakness is that eblaster 5.0 can only capture incoming emails that are opened. If a pedophile sends your child an email a day and your child deletes them without opening them, you'd never know. It's great that your kid didn't open them, but wouldn't you want a copy anyway?

I have no experience with the chat capture functionality so I won't comment on it.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for Remote Monitoring of Employees or Children, March 8, 2005

By 

Michael Lambert - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eBlaster 5.0 (CD-ROM)

eBlaster gives you piece of mind by letting you know what your kids are doing on the Internet when you are not around. It even lets you know who they are talking to and the content of those chats, which is very important given some of the dangerous people on the Internet these days. eBlaster records Outlook emails, Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL email. It also records AOL chats, AOL IM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Trillian and Yahoo Chats. It also records the web sites your kids are visiting and the keystrokes they type. Then, once an hour, it emails you the reports. So, you can still be at work, the kids can be home from school, and you will be able to know whether they are getting into danger online. This is also appropriate for employers who need to be away from the office and need to know that their employees are actually working and not spending a lot of time goofing off on the Internet. If you don't want to receive reports every hour, you can set eBlaster up to send reports less frequently, such as once every few hours, or just once a day. I have been using eBlaster for more than a year and have found the program to be quite solid and reliable and to perform as advertised. I have also found the company to be readily available to answer questions via email and via a toll-free telephone number and, according to their web site, they take phone calls 7 days a week and publish their toll-free number front and center on their home page. Highly recommended.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too easy to fool, March 1, 2005

By 

Samuel J. Rogers "Joe" (Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eBlaster 5.0 (CD-ROM)

While this application sounds really good, it turns out to be very easy to fool both for chats and emails. If anyone even suspects that they are being monitored, it can easily be defeated. For example, it only works really well if the computer being monitored is using Outlook or Outlook Express. The application cannot forward attachments from any other mail applications, so just send your messages in a attachements; eBlaster will not even know who you forwarded the message to. GMail, Yahoo Mail, etc. are not handled very well. To fool the chat, all that you need to do is use something else besides the keyboard as input. I learned this from a user with XP Table PC. They just sketched all of their chats on MSN (which is set up to do this for all tablets) and none of the information came across eBlaster. Also, the whiteboard feature readly supports passing information around eBlaster's recording mechanism for those who just have a mouse. If it is not one of the popular chat application like MSN or Yahoo, eBlaster only gets the user's outgoing messages from the keystrokes that get captured; there are apparently too many chat applications for eBlaster to monitor and all incoming information is not recorded. Also, for chats, none of the advanced features of the chat applications are supported. So a normal conversation could be carried out over the keyboard, while the whiteboard or simple file swapping can be used without anything being captured by eBlaster. eBlaster is too explensive too expensive for what it does and how easily it can be duped.