April 24, 2002
Vero Beach, Florida

VERO BEACH, FL - April 24, 2002 - SpectorSoft Corporation's release of their Spector Professional Edition has filled the void for a feature rich, lower cost solution for monitoring instant messaging in the workplace.

Companies are plagued with lost productivity, bandwidth consumption and legal risks when employees are granted Internet access. The use of Instant Messaging in the workplace has soared, creating even more headaches for employers concerned with the costs associated with lost productivity and liability.

"Use of instant messaging and chat in the business environment has more than doubled in the last year alone and an even more dramatic growth rate is anticipated in the near future," states Doug Fowler, President and CEO of SpectorSoft. "With the release of Spector Professional, companies in need of a detailed way to monitor and record chat conversations and instant messaging now have all the tools they need in one extremely affordable package."

"With the Chat Recorder built into Spector Pro, chats and instant messages are automatically recorded and saved for later review. That ability, combined with visual snapshot recording, email recording and instant notification when specified content is encountered provides businesses with the most powerful monitoring and surveillance solution on the market today - at a fraction of the cost for products offering fewer capabilities," says Fowler.

Spector Professional records both sides of the chat conversation for AOL Chat Rooms, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger and records other Chat/IM programs via snapshots. The advanced keyword detection and notification feature alerts the administrator by email when specified keywords are detected in chat conversations and instant messages, incoming and outgoing email, URLs and web pages. Each alert contains the keyword detected, the time the keyword was detected, the current user logged in and additional detailed information.

Other features of Spector Professional include the Spector VCR-like snapshot recording, sophisticated keystroke journals, email recording that captures and displays a list of all incoming and outgoing email including Yahoo mail, Hotmail, Excite mail and AOL web based mail, AOL email and all SMTP-based emails, as well as scheduling features and stealth mode installation.

Single user Spector Professional Edition is available on the company web site for $99.95. Evaluation copies and license pricing information is available by calling (772) 770-5670.

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About SpectorSoft

SpectorSoft develops, markets and supports PC and Internet monitoring and surveillance products for education, business, government and home users, including Spector Pro, eBlaster, Spector for Mac, Spector CNE Investigator, and Spector 360.

More than 50,000 companies and more than 400,000 consumers have purchased SpectorSoft solutions to crack down on Internet abuse in their business or home, and SpectorSoft has been selected for three years by Inc. Magazine as one of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. SpectorSoft monitoring technology is a THREE-TIME winner of the prestigious PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award.

For more information about SpectorSoft Corporation and its monitoring software products, please visit www.spectorsoft.com. For more information about SpectorSoft's Partners Program, please visit www.spectorsoftpartners.com.

To schedule a product demonstration, please contact press@spectorsoft.com , or call: (772) 770-5670 .

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