• Properties:

• System Process: Yes
• Background Process: Yes
• Application Process:Yes
• Common Path:
  C:\ Program Files\ watchdog.exe
• Uses Network:Yes
• Uses Internet:Yes

Description:

The watchdog.exe program also functions with the name WatchDog Parental Control. This software program protects the computer through the restriction of what Windows can change and where the system can go.

The application watchdog.exe can monitor user activities while browsing the internet, using applications, interacting in chat rooms, and sending, receiving, or any creation of messages in email accounts. Keystrokes can also be recorded by the watchdog.exe software, as well as screen shots taken from the session.

The watchdog.exe file is able to limit the use of the computer and schedule when it can be utilized. This file can also set time limits for programs or stop their execution permanently and block sites or any web material that may contain malicious or adult elements to protect their children.

The file watchdog.exe provides a controlled web browsing by limiting each users time of browsing the net. This can be scheduled daily, weekly, monthly, and so on, which can be set in a time or times of the day when the Internet can be used. This software is also able to block improper web pages from word searches by Uniform Resource Location (URL), which can be viewed through a session report, and web pages from all versions of different web browsers, which include Mozilla Firefox, Opera, AOL Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, Avant Browser, and Netscape.

The software application watchdog.exe provides controls of games and applications by limiting the time the user can play or run programs, preventing the possible addiction of children using them. These applications are tracked and identified by the program watchdog.exe.

The watchdog.exe program also supervises the computer usage of the user, monitoring what web pages have been visited, logging what the user has typed, taking screen shots of the browsing activities, and remotely managing and monitoring users through the web browser their using.

Recommendations:

This is a safe process. There is no necessity to remove this process from your system or change it in any way.