The Deimos Project

1. What is The Deimos Project?
2. I cannot run the application! It won't start or gives an error about "application configuration is incorrect"
3. My firewall/anti-virus says Deimos is potentially dangerous?
4. Why are my statistics at the website outdated?
5. What is a commit?
6. What is a snapshot?
7. Is it possible to keep Deimos running while gaming?

1. What is The Deimos Project?

It's a project, consisting of an application and this website, which allows you to gather information and statistics about your computer and servers.

This project doesn't invade privacy, it only gathers a few basic statistics, among those are:

1. How much is downloaded & uploaded
2. How often there's a key pressed on the keyboard
3. How long the computer has been on and inactive
4. How often there has been clicked with the mouse

These statistics don't say anything about your activities on the computer, it's also possible to mark your stats as private.

2. I cannot run the application! It won't start or gives an error about "application configuration is incorrect"

Please install the Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable

3. My firewall/anti-virus says Deimos is potentially dangerous?

The firewall/AV may say that because Deimos has access to the keystrokes/mouseclicks, the anti-virus may think that Deimos is a keylogger. However, Deimos counts the number of keystrokes, not the keystrokes themselves, no private intrusion in there.

4. Why are my statistics at the website outdated?

The application will automatically send all statistics to the website every hour. If you don't have a connection to the internet, it will simply try again later. If your statistics never update, your firewall might block port 80 or have blocked deimos-svc.exe.

5. What is a commit?

When you commit, all snapshots (gathered statistics) are sent to the server. It doesn't matter when you do this because Deimos also keeps track of the time.

6. What is a snapshot?

A snapshot is all the gathered statistics by Deimos in 15 minutes (may change). To reduce the number of statistics that Deimos has to keep track of, only the totals of statistics are saved.

7. Is it possible to keep Deimos running while gaming?

Yes, the application has been optimized for this job. It almost doesn't use any CPU-time, hard disk-IO and the network and the memory usage is low, which makes it ideal to keep it running while you are playing a game.