Top keyloggers for Mac OS X (monitoring applications) in review 2013

Explanatory notes

The table reflects how the monitoring application has performed during the tests carried out by our team.

The overall rating is calculated on the basis of how the applications have scored within the following groups:

• OS Support - this group reflect the number and quality of the operation systems supported by the applications.
• Security - this group shows how hidden the application is and what self-protection mechanisms it has.
• Monitoring - this group analyzes what monitoring functions an applications has, such as keystroke, clipboard, login passwords, etc monitoring.
• Online Monitoring - the group that reflects availability of the functions to monitor users’ online activity, such as URLs visited, 2-side chat conversations interception and emails sent/received.
• Reports - the group that basically analyzes the convenience of the intercepted information reading, including not only the ways to filter and show it, but also to deliver it remotely.
• Other - other functions that cannot be part of any of the other groups listed, though a still very important such as parental control functions, languages, reactions to specific keywords, etc.

To find out in a more detailed way how the scores are calculated within the groups and how the testing is performed please follow the Testing Policy.