Firefly's
Netintelligence Home Edition is considered an
End Point software solution, which simply means
a piece of software that physically resides at
the end of a network - in this case, on your
home computer at the end of a broadband network.
Because the software is actually installed on
your computer, it is ideally placed to
constantly monitor all of the interaction
between a user with the computers processes &
applications.
In
effect,
Firefly's
Netintelligence acts as a guardian on
your computer. It is designed to
monitor, take action and then report. For
example, when you set web site blocking rules
for your children, you are simply telling the
guardian to note their activity, and if it sees
them visiting a web site that you do not want
them to - take action and prevent them doing so.
Some of the ‘rules’ that the guardian will
follow, are predetermined by Netintelligence -
anti virus, or harmful websites for example -
but most of them are set by you, via the online
Control Centre. In order to determine whether
these rules have changed or have been updated,
the Netintelligence software constantly
communicates to our Central Databases. The
software is programmed to ‘talk’ to the
databases at least once every minute. As well as
receiving its new instructions, the guardian
will also deposit the information it has
gathered from your computer in this time with
the databases. This information is then
processed and made available for you in the form
of online reports, via the online Control
Centre.
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