Monitoring
settings
On this page, you can decide what kind of
information you want STAR to log. The following examples are based on the
interactive HTML report.
Visual
Monitoring
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Screenshot: STAR takes picture of the PC
desktop just like a surveillance camera. When planning your security setup. You
should keep in mind that screenshots occupy much more hard disk space then the
text logs. All screen shots are stored encrypted in the directory of the STAR
log file.
If the computer is idle STAR
does not make any screenshots. If the user starts working again STAR
continues making screenshots.
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Note: The screenshots are completed embedded in
the interactive HTML log file, thus you can search for specific screenshots with
keywords. You can also view them in the “Report
Manager”.
Text
Monitoring
STAR records text transcripts of all-important
activities:
Active
Application
The title of the front application is logged whenever
it changes. In the HTML output log file, a green background is used for the
first appearance. If the title subsequently changes but the application is still
the same, the title is presented with a yellowish background. The third value,
[1:05] in this example indicates how long the application was used before the
user switched to the next application. In this case, Word was used with the
"STAR" document for one hour and five
minutes.
13:54 [1:05] Microsoft Word:
STAR.doc
13:56 [0:04] Microsoft
Word: resume.doc
Keystrokes &
passwords
Logs what is typed on the
keyboard.
Dear
Sirs,
STAR works
great!
Regards, Lawrence
Tan
Visited web sites
Logs the URL of visited website as a real life link.
This allows you to just click on the link in the log file to display the visited
page in your browser!
Shell
Notifications
Logs what has changed in the shell. For example STAR
logs when a new printer is added in the Printers folder, a connection is deleted
in the Dial-Up Networking folder, folders or files are moved, deleted or
renamed, registered files are opened and items are added/removed from the recent
(Documents) menu, the recycled bin is added to or emptied or a scheduled task is
added, deleted or modified. Note: Any modifications in the
C:\Windows\History folder will not be
logged!
00:49:58
A file has been deleted:
C:\Windows\Help.doc
00:50:11
A folder has been created: C:\Test
Time stamp
Useful to monitor working habits, STAR will "stamp"
the log files even if not other activities occur, e.g. while you are out for
lunch. You can set the time interval of the "stamp" in minutes.
Autostart
Enable this option if you want that the logging engine
automatically start with every PC Boot.