Existing users, 
I just expected this program to monitor performance type usage but was very surprised to find it shutting down my sessions. Went through the deinstall on my main system disk and removed it from StartupItems. Now it terminates my other accounts.
And I started having my eMail Inbox messages disappear after installing Watcher. Coincidence or cause still to be determined.
There has to be a warning and a better set of instructions.
And I still have to get the whole thing out of my system.
tom_mcintosh@shaw.ca.
Watcher
Computer usage monitoring tool for parental control.
Version: 5.3.1
Scary
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: tommcin2 Saturday, November 12 2005 @ 06:33 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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Scary Relieved - tommcin2
Author sent the following that fixed my problemFirst, you should have used the "Uninstall" menu from the Watcher app. As I posted on versiontracker.com, two components must be removed to uninstall the application. You found the first on in /Library/StartupItems/ but you also need to remove /Library/Application Suport/Watcher/ .
This will prevent your session from being closed after 60 seconds.
I asked the author to give more than a minute to accomplish finding the program and running install. He should also put a more blatant warning in the instructions for a program that takes such drastic action.
Like most, I just start a regular looking program and try it.
Thanks to the author for getting back so soon.
Tom
Sunday, November 13 2005 @ 02:02 PM PST
Scary - Alorsoft
If you decide to manually remove Watcher, remove the startup item, but also remove the folder /Library/Application support/Watcher !Watcher terminates your sessions when the startup item is missing (which means that something went wrong).
Hope this helps,
The developer.
PS: For your emails disappearing, this can't be linked with the use of Watcher.
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Saturday, November 12 2005 @ 06:40 AM PST