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PC Pandora [New - Version 5.0]

Manufacturer : Pandora
In Stock : 1

List Price:	$109.95
Price:	$59.95
You Save:	$50.00 (45%)

Features

Records ALL User Activity Silently (Running Visually Also Available)
TWO (2) licenses lets you protect and monitor 2 PCs in your house
Sends Captured Data Directly To Your Email When You're Away
Blocks Internet Websites You Choose
Password Protected For Your Eyes Only

Product Description

PC Pandora monitors your PC! Like a TiVo for your PC, the software takes snapshots of your desktop and records all content and activity. There are also strong blocking and filtering functions to help prevent further activity on websites you feel are not safe for your children. Use PC Pandora to make sure your children are not posting personal information online or talking to people they shouldn't. Make sure they are spending time on schoolwork and not in potentially dangerous chatrooms. Know if they are the victims or the offenders of cyberbullying, and know if they are surfing porn or illegally downloading music and movies. Download and install within minutes, or we can ship a CD-ROM to you. Either way, for less than the cost of a family dinner, you can safeguard and protect your family and your PC with PC Pandora.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating of 4.00 out of 9 reviews

Rating :
Warning IT DOES NOT WORK WITH VISTA........do not waste your money! - P. Caricchio, Apr 23, 2009

I bought this software about a year ago, and it worked fine with Windows XP, if you have Norton Internet all you have to do is follow the steps before installing it and it works. But NOT with Vista, while Norton does not detect it, Vista security does and a message pops up: "Warning an unknown software wants to get access to your computer" allow or reject? what is the person using the computer will do?.....it is not so hard to figure it out, this message keeps coming up over and over, so Pandora can't go undetected with Vista. Don't waste your money, and their Customer Support Department, DO NOT WANT to acknoledge this problem, so I am stuck with a program that can't do what I bought it for.

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Does the job - Art, Mar 24, 2009

Was looking for cheap and easy way to monitor someone visibly taking steps to hide PC activity for unknown reasons. PC Pandora came through with easy installation, low cost and ease of use.

I cant really speak to the fancy features, but the basic features are extremely easy to use, and all you need to monitor another user of the same PC be it kid or whatever.

One minor beef...for some reason I find it a bit confusing to match the time stamp on screen captures to the keystroke record. It would sure be nice if there was some sort of link you could click to go from say a screen cap taken at x time to the keystroke log from that time, or vice versa. You cant always figure out what is going on without checking both for context.

Rating :
Good - B. Bates, Dec 07, 2008

There are better products out there, but it does what it says it will. The manufacturer seems to work out of a garage and by the seat of their pants. The product will arrive on a jump drive, not a CD/DVD. Shop around and if this is what you want, then get it. If you see better, then avoid it.

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Excellent Product - J. ROBERTS, Sep 08, 2008

This thing works as advertised. As a matter of fact - it is a little scary just how well this thing can snoop another PC.

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Could Not get it to work with Vista - Honest Software Guy, Jul 05, 2008

It seemed like a good price, but I could not get it to work with Vista. So, I tried it on XP, and while it worked, I found it was detected by Norton Antivirus and Webroot's SpySweeper. I had to disable those products to get it to work, and found it offered the basics, but it was difficult to use and offered far fewer features than Spector Pro, which admittedly is a bit expensive, but an extremely good product. Plus, it is really not practical to live without anti-virus software. If you don't use anti-virus or anti-spyware products, and you use XP and don't plan on upgrading to Vista, then this is a good basic product.

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