Welcome to “Refog” corporate blog.

We are developing programs to monitor user activity of home (Personal Monitor) and office (Employee Monitor) computers, as well as to control usage of your children’s computer (Time Sheriff).

Update to version 7.2.0.1443

13 February 2012

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.

The Ukrainian language

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.

Updates and improvements, version 6.4.3.1164

8 August 2011

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.

configuring log storage

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.

Update to version 6.3.1.1129

21 December 2010

We’ve released an update for Refog Employee Monitor and Terminal Monitor 6.3.1.1129.

The update fixes minor bugs in the code of version 6.3.0 programs that occasionally occurred when opening monitoring logs. The program registration system has also been improved.

The main change, however, is a brand-new feature added after multiple requests we’ve received from users. The «Program Activity» table now has a button that generates a new program usage report for the selected user.

Employee Monitor

This report lists all the programs the user has worked in during the selected time period and the time spent in each of them. If you sort the table by the «Time used» column, for instance, you can instantly determine what programs were used most of all during the workday.

The collected data can be filtered in a number of ways and exported to a report in any of the supported formats (HTML, JPG, TXT, TIFF, Excel, PDF) by clicking the «Report» button.

As usual, the new versions are already available for download on our site. You can also update to them using the integrated program updater.

Update 6.2.4.1116

1 November 2010

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.

Update to version 6.2.2.1107

3 September 2010

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.

Update to version 6.1.7.1044

10 June 2010

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.

Upgrade to version 6.1.6.1040

11 May 2010

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.