While monitoring your own employees may seem a bit invasive, it actually makes sense if you like to protect your data and ultimately, your business. If you're in the market for an excellent monitoring software, Spector 360 might just be your best bet. It's a mature client/server software designed to automatically record everything that your employees do while using their PCs and the Internet. The recorder that does the actual monitoring works on any Microsoft OS: from Windows 98 through Vista. The reviewer noted that installing the software on a Windows 2003 server and two Windows XP Pro SP 2 workstations was smooth and took less than 30 minutes. A straightforward, well-documented wizard called Deployment Utility walks the user through configuring the client application. Spector allows you to monitor a vast amount of information, including keystrokes, chats and IMs. The reviewer noted that when the software was tested using the two workstations, reports were available in 15 minutes. The amount of information contained in the report is impressive. It showed network activity, Web sites visited, e-mails, keystrokes, application usage, and document creation. It even tracks when a file is copied to any mounted drive. It may seem expensive at $75 per client (or monitored employee) but the monitoring power of the Spector 360 provides great functionality.