In a June review, the flagship employee monitoring product from SpectorSoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in Internet Monitoring and Surveillance Software, Spector 360, has been awarded Editors' Choice by PC Magazine.

SpectorSoft monitoring technology is made by this honor a three-time PC Magazine Editors' choice award winner. PC Magazine is widely considered to be the most respected publication in the computer technology industry. On two occasions, SpectorSoft's Spector Pro previously has won Editors' Choice and no other monitoring software has received this distinction.

Author Matthew Sarrel, in giving the product four and a half stars, called Spector 360 "better than anything else I have tested" and "mature."

Spector 360 records files transferred, keystrokes typed, chats and instant messages, emails sent and received, employees' web sites visited, documents printed and applications run. Through a first of its kind surveillance-like camera recording tool, in addition, Spector 360 shows in exact visual detail what an employee does every step of the way. Providing more than 50 easy-to-read reports, Spector 360 takes the recorded Internet and computer activities, feeds that information into a database.

By discussing why employers should use products like Spector 360 to detect if employees are misusing computing resources noting, PC Magazine's in-depth analysis began: "If installed before your problems begin, monitoring software may prevent malfeasance, because employees know they are being watched."

Saying: "The product's comprehensive reporting features really make it stand apart from the crowd … Spector 360 gives you a full-fledged application with plenty of text reports, charts, and graphs. If you've chosen to capture everything, as I recommend, you can slice and dice by application, user, Web sites visited - almost by anything you can imagine," the reviewer highlighted 360's built in reporting functionality.