Looking for a Key-Logger type program, and I need some help...

I hope that the general networking section is an okay place to ask this, if not I'm sorry for any inconvenience.. (I had posted something similar to this in the firewall section, but I kind of thought it was miss-categorized.)

So my question: is there a program that can log internet activity, primarily the history and searches, that can simultaneously monitor multiple machines on a home network? (6 computers, to be exact). What I'm looking for is a way to 'simultaneously' send every machine a 'log' of internet activity; now it doesn't have to be in real time, but I'd like something I know will log. It would be great if it could also log general application usage as well, as in how much time an application is used, but that's not a necessity.

Anyway, I have spent an hour or two researching key logger's, most are the hidden (or cloaked) type used by parents for monitoring their kid's computer usage. I don't really care if it's not totally hidden, but it would be nice if it would log or notify when it was turned off.

Now something else I found to be pretty common is screen capturing, which I don't need, but I would like some sort of log that doesn't take to long to look through; something equivalent to the history browser of Firefox would suffice very well. And along with that the less cpu intensive the better.

And as far as price, I've looked at the freebies to the $2k Orion NPM Suite; now I sure don't need all the fancies with that of Orion, but it would be nice if it was under $50.

So there's my question, thanks for any and all input. And thank you for taking time to read this!

Well...in order to log internet activity of all your machines is fairly simple, there are softwares that you put onto your router that will log every website that is open on your network and everything connected to your network. However I am sure about a keylogger that actually monitors the computers usage like applications and stuff you described. I am not sure you can do this in a centralized manner from your router. It might be, but as far as i know, you will have to install a keylogger on every machine and you will only be able to access it from the actual machine. There might be enterprise versions with centralized control but again, i am not sure. Plus most anti-virus detect key loggers as a threat and will alert the user of it. If you install these key-loggers you better make dam sure that the anti-virus has it added into exceptions to ignore it otherwise...big problems

-Best of luck

Some ISP's have logging enabled. Where you can login to your account and view the internet activity.
Normally it's free... Just a FYI

Hi shalom24,

I read your post and in order to find a solution for your requests I would recommend Inside Keylogger. This application has a very nice set of features and to name a few this keylogger can do:
# Keystrokes Recording
# Sites Recording
# Chat and Instant Message Recording
# Application / Program Recording
# Screenshots Recording
# E-mail Reporting and Alerting
# Invisible Mode

Go to http://www.inside-logger.com/key_logger/features.html to see the complete list of features and go to
http://www.inside-logger.com/key_logger/download.html to try it for free.
If you are ok with this then the price is acceptable.
Cheers!