BACKTRACK APP INSTALL

It does install an exta MySQL lite database which runs constantly so you are looking at some overhead.īut what I really object to and why I won't install or use BackTrack is that there is a daemon running constantly stealing processor cycles and pinging your whole network looking for other copies of BackTrack. BackTrack is the only keylogger which actually separates your typing by document and keeps it cleaned up. I say this as someone who works in software. It's THAT obnoxious.ģ-4 stars for the features (I'm sure this rating will go up after I lose some typing)ġ-2 stars for probably the most obnoxious demo I've ever had to endure. if I hadn't already got it via MacZot, I'd probably be trashing it right now. The Dev's licensing terms and demo? He almost lost a sale (while I typed this up, 15 minutes went by: *BEEP* 'Excuse me, Backtrack needs your attention'). I'll leave it to everyone else as to whether it's worth the grief. The Dev should DEFINITELY not be using TTS against the users' wishes, and I told him this in email.

BACKTRACK APP PLUS

So while I find Backtrack very useful, the Dev's obnoxious 'per machine' licensing plus this obnoxious Demo 'feature' left a bad taste in my mouth.

BACKTRACK APP PRO

I had to ssh into my own MacBook Pro and kill things from the Terminal. I had this happen WHILE I was writing this review! Fans on, total freeze. In another case, by the 3rd or so nuisance dialog the demo can't invoke the system voice, so your Lion machine may freeze. I have since switched back to English, so now every 15 minutes when the menu item is on it blares in English. Guess what? My machine froze while Backtrack tried to do the English dialog in Japanese. The first time this happened, while I had a number of things open, and I had my system voice set to japanese but OFF. But then the author overrides your 'Text to Speech' settings and your machine will try to use the default system voice & announce 'Excuse me, Backtrack needs your attention'.

Let me explain: Every 15 minutes the dev will throw a nuisance dialog to try and get you to register your machine. This is-īacktrack's demo mode it is REALLY obnoxious, and in some cases may even wedge your machine as it did with me on Lion. else how would it capture your keystrokes? Even in typed comments in twitter or some web form? That's not the beef I have with the dev. read on.īacktrackBA takes about 40 megs of Ram, and runs in 64-bit. I haven't run into any memory problems or slowdowns yet. All in all it's a better solution than the free logkext that I had (occasionally) been using. I was able to find texts from hours before that would not have been saved. Despite the somewhat clunky UI it's very usable. It does catch the 'un-versionable' in Lion: comments, typed tweets from Twitter.app, etc.

Backtrack is a REALLY useful keylogger (it also captures images, but I don't use it for that).

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