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Golden Eye is a very good product. The product is very easy to use and the user interface is great, other than some occasional overuse of text and options. A few extra screens would have helped instead of trying to fit everything onto one screen. The installation process is also very easy to use and set up.

Online Monitoring:

It has a very good stealth mode feature. If you don't want anyone to know the application is running in the background, the stealth mode allows you to completely hide the application. You can't even see the application running when you display the Windows Task Manager, by way of the CTRL-ALT-DELETE combination. It is easy to re-display the application with certain hotkey keystrokes that you can customize for easy remembering.

Even though Golden Eye had no email forwarding of monitored reports, it did have a wide variety of reports for each of the major monitoring functions.

PC Monitoring & Admin:

The product is very easy to use and the user interface is great.

Filtering & Blocking:

The installation process is also very easy to use and setup.

Reporting:

Golden Eye is a little weak when it comes to email monitoring. It does capture all keystrokes, but it is hard to read an email in the keystroke viewer. It doesn't monitor any incoming emails.

Summary:

Overall, Golden Eye is a very good product for getting an understanding of your computer's activities. The product had a good balance of most of the major features necessary in a monitoring application. It is not as powerful as some of the other competitor's products, but it is still very good.