February 2011

You can use Parental Controls in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 to help monitor different user activities such as websites, applications and iChat.

The following tips describe how this feature works.

A better approach is to use a Keylogger for Mac. Aobo Keylogger for Mac, which supports Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and later, enables Mac owners to view all keystrokes, websites, passwords, screenshots, applications and chats - monitor all user activities.

It can be installed to any user account you want to monitor, including administrator accounts. Once you set it up on the user account you want to monitor, it works automatically and stealthily with the login of the user account.

Anyway, if you want to monitor user activities on your Mac, the easy ways mentioned above are your best choices.

A lot of Keylogger for Mac users will be happy when they find and download Free Keyloggers for Mac, but finally they become disappointed because what is called free Keylogger for Mac is far from the word "free". In fact, there is no easy-to-use free Keylogger for Mac so far.

In point of fact, most of the free Keyloggers for Mac are only free for download but not free for use. The great mass of this information comes from download websites. Before you download, you may need to check whether it is freeware or shareware. But the answer turns out to be shareware in most cases.

Another possibility is that the so-called Free Keyloggers for Mac are free trials. You can download them for free and use it on your Mac for a period of time and then it expires. Only a few Keylogger for Mac vendors like Aobo Keylogger for Mac provide free trial.

You may download something that does harm to your Mac when you search for free Keylogger for Mac too. Some malicious websites are likely to embed virus into free stuff and prevail on keylogger users to download. Once you run these "free keyloggers", your Mac will get dangerous.

There is also a chance that what you download is free Keylogger for Mac with limited features and complicated operation. There is only one free Keylogger for Mac which is abandoned by its developer. After you install it, you will be unable to find and operate the keylogger in normal ways and the uninstallation is not promising.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, especially when there is room for benefiting. Be careful to the free Keylogger for Mac s as they may bring you unexpected troubles.

Here is a question most of the Mac users concern about: does Mac get keylogger virus? There are a lot of discussions out there but few people exactly explain this question.

The answer to this question is certainly "yes, there are keylogger viruses on the Macintosh". But the amount of viruses on Mac is much less than viruses on PC (the proportion of PC viruses to Mac viruses is about one hundred to two). So the chances you get keylogger virus on your Mac are few and far between.

The most dangerous things at the moment are small USB devices (Hardware Keylogger) that can be installed to keyboard and computer and record everything. Mac OS X can't protect you because the whole key logging happens outside the computer. Of course it is possible that someone physically get at your computer, install the keylogger and pick it up again later. And Mac Books / MacBook Pros are safe as long as you don't use an external keyboard.

But you can install a keylogger program yourself on your own Mac if you wish to do so, so you can find out what others type on your computer. Or someone else can install it if they have your administrator password and access to your computer. The only way to install a keylogger on Mac is if you have physical access to the Mac. It cannot be done remotely.

Guardians or employers are most interested in this kind of Mac Keylogger programs. Nowadays Mac Keyloggers are much more powerful in logging keystrokes, websites and chat conversations. Since the keylogger is used in these legitimate ways, it will help you a lot in practice.

To sum up, Mac is relatively more secure than PC, but there is a possibility that you get a virus on your Mac. Remember to exclude legitimate Keylogger for Mac programs from your worry-about list.