In this program update there are not that many innovations, but it’s worth writing about it as well. It is made almost completely on the basis of joint work by programmers, the technical support department, and actual users of our programs.

In all the programs, we added the feature of capturing user’s messages in the VKontakte (vk.com) social network. Many users have asked me for this for a long time now.

The Ukrainian language was added to the programs’ interface. The translation was done by one of our users, so thank you very much to him.

We are continuing to work on improving the encrypting system for logs in Employee Monitor and Terminal Monitor. In extremely rare cases, it works incorrectly and greatly slows down the work of the program.

Thanks to reports like this from our users, we were able to solve the problem. In the next versions of the programs, we will be able to get rid of it completely.

We did not announce any changes we made in our programs for a long time while we were releasing new versions. Therefore, today we decided to hold a slight review and recall everything.

One of the most important updates was the development of a module for protecting financial information. This is a special script that automatically searches for lines in the program’s logs that are similar to credit card numbers, and deletes them from the monitoring journal. Screenshots made at that moment are also deleted.

These protective mechanisms work only in cases when this is possible and do not guarantee protection in absolutely all cases. The script is gradually being improved to minimize false alarms and errors. It cannot be turned off since its very existence carries out legislative norms.

For the programs Employee Monitor and Terminal Monitor, due to many requests from the users, a feature was added of configuring log storage in a local or network folder specified by the user.

A lot of work was done to improve the support of the latest versions of internet browsers (Opera, Firefox).

There was an improvement to message monitoring in Facebook, the social network.

The Turkish and Polish languages were added to the program interface.

Ironically, the realities of today’s Internet dictate the need for protecting children from it. These days, even adults cannot avoid the traps set on the global network, much less children.

The number of psychic, emotional, physical and financial threats that Internet users are exposed to is steadily growing very day.

Thousands of sites with content absolutely inappropriate for children’s eyes, erotic images and pornography, violence and all kinds of intolerance, spam and the already commonplace «adult» ads even on harmless mainstream sites, viruses and incessant attempts of scammers to steal your information or money — this is just a short list of things that are all over the Internet and finding them is not a problem at all.

What programs can parents use for restricting children’s access to unwanted content? There are several approaches to solving this problem:

• Protecting using integrated OS and browser functions.
• Using a special module of a paid anti-virus tool.
• Restriction on the Internet provider’s end.
• Using activity monitoring programs.
• Using specialized software (free and commercial).

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We’ve released a regular update for Refog Personal Monitor and Refog Employee Monitor — 6.2.4.1116.

The latest version accommodates to the latest changes in Facebook chat. Previous versions are no longer supported due to recent changes in the social network.

Also there are minor user interface fixes and an updated web browser tracking module that supports the latest version of Google Chrome.

If you have automatic updates disabled you can download the update manually from our web site.

A regular update version 6.2.2.1107 is available for Refog Personal Monitor and Employee Monitor.

The main change is added support for Google Chrome. As well as minor error fixed and user interface tweaks.

If you have automatic product updates disabled you can download the update right from our web site.

We have made a regular update of Refog Personal Monitor and Employee Monitor programs to version 6.1.7.1044.

The main change compared with the previous version:

• Added support for different mail servers, including Hotmail and Live.com.

You can already download the new version of softwares from our website or simply wait until the program will remind about the update.

We have added some videos which present the main aspects of setting up the Refog Personal Monitor program: registration, enabling and disabling stealth mode, uninstallation of the program.

Registration of the program: Enter registration information Verify results
Disable the stealth mode: Setting up of invisibility and stealth modes Ways of disabling the stealth mode Launching the hidden program with hot key combination Launching with run command Launching with “magic word”
Uninstalling the program from a computer: Uninstalling the program Deleting the logs In case the program settings are protected with a password it will be required to uninstall the program.

Today come regular software updates of Refog Personal Monitor and Employee Monitor to version 6.1.6.1040.

You can download a new version of software from our web site or wait until the program automatically updates if you have this option enabled.

The main changes in the new version:

1. Optimization of software installation.

A lot of internal changes in the installer programs, made to accelerate and simplify their installation.

2. Reworked localization.

Fixed bugs and inaccuracies in translation of the programs into other languages.

3. Changed duration of the trial period.

Now the period of free trial use of the programs is 3 days for Personal Monitor and 30 days for Employee Monitor.

Development of Refog software is a continuous process: any detected errors in older versions are eliminated; releases of new products and updates of the old ones are prepared.

In this blog we’ll inform you about all the new products and added features and explain their purpose. Earlier the information about new features in the program was presented as a line of a text, but now it will be a detailed description with screenshots and videos.

Meanwhile you can see the development history of Refog Personal Monitor program from 2007 to the present date.

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