PC-Alarm and Security System

PC-Alarm and Security System is a Windows software application whose purpose is to help you monitor mouse and keyboard activity for unauthorized users. Plus, it is able to listen to loud noises (such as file or home alarms) via your computer’s microphone and trigger alerts.

User interface

The program does not impress much in the visual department. It reveals a simple dashboard that reveals details about the number of triggered alarms and encountered system errors.
A help manual is not included in the package, so you need to decode the configuration settings on your own.

Set up different types of alarms

PC-Alarm and Security System gives you the possibility to lock the keyboard and mouse so you can prevent unauthorized users from getting access to your sensitive information. Plus, the tool is able to notify you instantly using different modes, namely email, phone, pager/dialer, or network message.
The application stores information about all types of events with the aid of logs. You may filter log data by error, warning or status.

Video surveillance

PC-Alarm and Security System helps you make use of your webcam or other video devices in order to capture photos each time an alarm is triggered. Additionally, you may specify a delay time before triggering the capturing process.

Configuration settings

You are allowed to choose the preferred size of the captured images, adjust the frame rate and insert date/timestamps, archive photos, and send pictures via FTP connections. What’s more, you can set up email, phone, network and pager/dialer parameters for triggering alarms.
The tool lets you grant access to other users based on custom PINs, disable the screensaver, Task Manager, several keys, Start menu and taskbar, and automatically run it at Windows startup.

Bottom line

All things considered, PC-Alarm and Security System delivers several handy features for helping you detect intruders with aid of different monitoring modules, such as mouse, keyboard, microphone or webcam. On the downside, it hasn’t been updated for a while so it may cause compatibility issues especially on newer operating systems like Windows 8.1.