Friend Watchdog 1.1.5
Free Version
Publisher Description
Friend Watchdog monitors the status of your friends on Facebook and Skype, stores the status changes on remote servers, and lets you check when your friends have been online in the past week.
Please note that you are sending status updates only when Friend Watchdog is up and running, and that status changes from multiple users are merged, so the more users of Friend Watchdog, and the more these users keep Friend Watchdog up and running, the more accurate will be the usage stats.
Why should you trust Friend Watchdog? Here is why:
- your Facebook account is NEVER sent to our servers, it is stored in encrypted form only on your computer, and it is used to access your Facebook account from your computer only. There is no way that we can access your Facebook account!
- we do not know who your Facebook and Skype friends are: the names of your friends are salted and hashed with SHA1, and only the hash is sent to the servers, so that we can distinguish between different friend names but we cannot retrieve friends' names from the hashes. For example, an Facebook username such as "stefanotommesani" generates this unique hash code: CDE381A6C6AD22E844263908022D40C4FE634C37. This hash code uniquely identifies the given Facebook username, but there is no way to go from the hash code back to the Facebook username, so the names of your friends remain private, and only you can see them
- once you allow Friend Watchdog to connect to the Skype application running on your PC (so that you don't even have to tell Friend Watchdog about your Skype password), it only reads the list of Skype friends and their online status, and that is the only information that is being monitored, always using hash codes to encrypt real names so that your privacy is safe
- the real names of your friends never leave your PC, only the hashes, that is the encrypted names that cannot be transformed back into the real names, are sent to the servers
- no need to register, no need to open an account
About Friend Watchdog
Friend Watchdog is a free software published in the Chat & Instant Messaging list of programs, part of Communications.
This Chat & Instant Messaging program is available in English, Italian, Portuguese. It was last updated on 23 April, 2024. Friend Watchdog is compatible with the following operating systems: Windows.
The company that develops Friend Watchdog is Stefano Tommesani. The latest version released by its developer is 1.1.5. This version was rated by 4 users of our site and has an average rating of 4.3.
The download we have available for Friend Watchdog has a file size of 3.15 MB. Just click the green Download button above to start the downloading process. The program is listed on our website since 2013-06-05 and was downloaded 237 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded software with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Friend Watchdog as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Friend Watchdog on your Windows device:
- Click on the Download button on our website. This will start the download from the website of the developer.
- Once the Friend Watchdog is downloaded click on it to start the setup process (assuming you are on a desktop computer).
- When the installation is finished you should be able to see and run the program.
