# Best Free Employee Monitoring Software?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-free-employee-monitoring-software/107917>\
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**Created:** [April 20, 2004, 6:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-free-employee-monitoring-software/107917 "2004-04-20T06:19:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![jtesp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@jtesp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jtesp)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 6:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-free-employee-monitoring-software/107917/1 "2004-04-20T06:19:03Z")

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I have an employee who I believe is spending more time playing online games and downloading songs than he is working. I am running a small LAN (no in-house server as of yet) with 13 computers (mostly running XP) connected to the internet. Is there a way for me to monitor the websites and or P2P activity being accessed from any given machine (other than browser History)? I don’t want to make any false assumptions and would like to show proof of the ammount of “play time” my employees are using. I’m a big fan of great FREE software (ala [analogx.com](http://analogx.com)) and I’m sure there’s some great programs out there, but I have no clue where to start looking. I figured someone here at my favorite forum might have some suggestions 😉  
Also, why we’re on topic it would be cool to restrict access TO a select few websites or restrict access FROM certain sites. What about word censoring emails?!

I’m sorry, I know nothing about this stuff so any insight or even a great link or two would be very helpful!  
Thanks!