How Monitoring Software Internally Works: General Step by Step Processes

When we hear about the step by step processes of technical operations, we often learn a great deal about its principles and fundamental points. This is different from simply knowing the instructions needed to make something work, because this takes us at the very crossroads where each of those very instructions would be processed.

And so, to help us better understand the inner workings of and PC monitoring software, we shall then provide an overall step by step procedure of how its separate functions work. Don't treat this as a technical manual though, because this is merely a simplified generalization.

1.    When the installer finishes setting up the cell phone or computer monitoring software, the very first procedure that it would do is to gather up all generic information that it could collect that is directly related to the unit. A few examples of the information that it would extract are the unit's model version, its connectivity options (for data transmission) and perhaps a few of its separate components.

2.    When the receiving unit finally receives all the generic information that the smart phone or PC monitoring software has collected, it would then try to secretly connect to unit using all of the resources that it had acquired. If there would be any possible changes in the target unit's settings, your phone could automatically adjust its settings to adapt. This discreet data request and reception procedure is a bit similar to what Carrier IQ previously used.

3.    A step behind general information, the unit's location data would be the next active data that it would collect. GPS would be the simplest method, although there are other alternatives if the unit is not a phone or if it does not support a GPS function. In any case, all information gathering about the unit's current real-time location goes to this vital step.

4.    Now, the unit is fully connected to the observing end. Every digital move that it makes would now be actively relayed to the receiving end. Your smart phone or computer monitoring software is now ready to update you in real-time.

5.    For information that involves display observation, the software could simply scan the screen, or provide a video recording of what happened to the screen for a specific period of time. Sending the data could take longer for this one, depending on the resolution of the screen of the target unit (especially for PCs).

6.    Other types of information, such as phone book lists and browsing/download activity can be easily sent in a simple form that is quick to upload and effortless to interpret. For text messages, only the message details and text message itself would have to be sent (the binary code itself).

7.    We'd like to point out that connecting and eavesdropping into a conversation isn't much different from how it is done a few years ago. The developers of cell phone or PC monitoring software need only to know the basics of radio communication and integrate it with their knowledge in data encryption.

All of the information that smart phone or PC monitoring software collects is squeezed inside a centralized database. Depending on the type of software installed, the data can be organized, arranged and analyzed for the user's convenience.

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