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ProTrainer and Security
       

ProTrainer and Security

Because of its working idea, ProTrainer is able to monitor and save the words you are typing. These words are used to create personal exercises and they can also be seen on the statistics section of the program.

If you need to type confidental information of any kind -- passwords, personal email and web addresses etc. -- there are some security issues that has to be taken into account.

High Security

ProTrainer itself does not fulfill high security requirements. However, high security can be obtained with the appropriate Windows NT/2000/XP security settings:

Nobody else is able to use your Windows user profile nor knows your password
Only you have read/write privileges to the ProTrainer application folder
You always lock your workstation whenever you are not present

 

Security Tips

High Security Mode
By choosing High Security Mode during the first Satellite launch, Satellite will not monitor any words and monitors only applications that you manually choose.

Confidential Applications
If you type confidential information in one or more applications, you can prevent ProTrainer Satellite from monitoring them from the Satellite Settings dialog.

Confidential Documents
If you are typing a single document containing confidential information, you can temporarily disable ProTrainer Satellite from the Satellite Menu.

Confidential Words
If any confidential words are visible in the difficult words list in the statistics section, you can hide them permanently with the Hide Word command.

Uninstallation
After uninstalling ProTrainer, be sure to fully delete the contents of the ProTrainer installation folder to remove all the personal information.

Security Statement

ProTrainer is able to monitor typing and reconstruct the typed words. However, ProTrainer is unable to reconstruct sentences, it saves only single words.

ProTrainer saves the collected data in the installation folder and uses it in the program to show statistics and create personalized exercises. ProTrainer does not use this data in any other way nor send it anywhere.

ProTrainer is not able to monitor the Windows logon password nor network logon passwords.

TypingMaster, Inc. does not under any circumstances guarantee the security of TypingMaster ProTrainer product and does not recommend to anybody to use it in high security environments.

TypingMaster, Inc. is not liable on any security damages ProTrainer may cause and does not pay any compensation for them.