Remote PC monitoring software

[rpguk]

I've got a few guys in a team working overseas and I'm a little concerned with the output of some of them. I'm not sure if it's just more training that's required or they're mucking around on facebook all day.

Along with other measures I'd like to have some kind of software on their machine which would allow me to pull up their screens on my desktop and monitor what they are doing. If it could keep a log of what sites they visited/programs they used that'd be great too.

This will be done with their full knowledge.

My searching so far is throwing up mainly 'spy' software which puts me off right away.

Does anyone have any recommendations? The remote machines are in a fairly basic LAN (i.e no exchange server or equivalent) but we do have a central LAMP server in a data centre in the UK.

Anyone got any recommendations?

[ErnestM]

I don't know if they sell in the UK or not, but:

http://www.spectorcne.com/

Note: You will have to allow this through your AV software by excluding it's signature.

[tuglet]

www.logmein.com works over the Internet, or RealVNC if they've VPN'd to the corporate LAN.

[ClassicMercs]

VNC works great for me on our network.
Its mainly for remote assistance - but you never know when I may just pop up. Caught one guy on ebay - took over and did a 'buy it now' on the item. He's not been near ebay since.

[itsnotarace]

Seek legal advice before deploying screengrab software

Look at Websense for internet content filtering

[gamefreaks]

Have you looked at Dameware? That will do what you want.

[Ordinary_Chap]

itsnotarace said:

Seek legal advice before deploying screengrab software

Look at Websense for internet content filtering

I second that and also be aware of different laws in different countries for this type of activity.

Also you need to ensure your IT policy covers this sort of activity.

[Man-At-Arms]

itsnotarace said:

Look at Websense for internet content filtering

we use Dansguardian for content filtering

[ipsg.glf]

What if they had a second PC that they used of messing about that you couldn't monitor?