CyberPatrol – Cyber Policing for a Family

Now, in every house, children using internet is a common thing. They need it for their studies, references, and extra knowledge. But while browsing, they may come across some objectionable matter which they should not read or view. Similarly, they may send some sensitive information over the internet, which may be harmful themselves and their parents. Looking at the dangerous side-effects, parents must protect children from such content present on the web. Parents can achieve protection by choosing good parental control software for the computer at home. CyberPatrol is one such up-to-date parental control software to help parents. With CyberPatrol installed on the computer, children can safely browse the internet web-pages and they are allowed to visit appropriate sites.

When CyberPatrol is installed, a browser, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox needs to be restarted. This will help the browser to read the settings done and make them effective from that very session. A control panel will appear on the screen from where all administrative tasks can be performed. From here, an administrator can create user profiles suitable for all family members. Type of the profile can be selected from the predefined list which has- Adult, Mature Teen, Young Teen and Child.

When tested with "Young Teen" user profile and web filtering also put on for all web-pages. This profile can also be customized manually if parents are savvy enough to achieve the exact desired level of monitoring. When searched using Google images for some terms, not all pictures were blocked.

Features :

• Age appropriate blocking and content filtering
• Admin can override all options
• Customization at the full extent possible for individual profiles
• Quick set up with Pre-defined profiles
• Scheduling feature to restrict time spent online
• IM and chat Log recording
• Detailed reports to view internet activity

Customer Support:
CyberPatrol Customer Support via email is available on the link: http://www.cyberpatrol.com/customerervice.asp

Representatives can provide help during business hours from Monday to Friday EST. Technical
Support is also available separately. FAQ and other knowledge articles also exist if one wants to find answers before going to Customer or Technical Support.

Easy Parental Control with iProtectYou

Protecting children, especially, who are technologically savvy is a tough job. Such kids want to constantly use internet to read and gather more information. An absence of parental control software, children can access any content on the websites which are not meant for them without any restriction. As the internet has many websites, which are not proper for any age levels; dangers exists when children visit such websites and it is parent’s responsibility to block children from using such websites. iProtectYou comes as a handy tool which allows parents to do exactly what they wish.

After the installation of this software, a "how-to" guide is given with the details of how to use the program to gain maximum security and control over the internet access of the family members or employees. It can be set up to be utilized in an individual or a group mode. It gives the tools needed to restrict web content and filter out unwanted contents. Each user setup is very easy and the control panel user interface is friendly enough for parents who are new to computer technology. Different features such as Internet Users and Groups, Timetable, Traffic Limits, Logs and Charts, and Settings will allow parents to set up a complete control system.

Internet Timetable allows parents to set up time limits in a day and blocking internet access during specified day or night hours. Users and Groups lets he administrator configure users and groups with different level of web filtering. Logs and Charts shows you reports on what each user accessed on the internet. Traffic Limits allows the administrator to set up restrictions to how many Mb are used daily. Settings give the administrator access to add trusted sites and newsgroups or manually add in websites or keywords which should be restricted.

Features :

• Filter for inappropriate web-pages, websites or newsgroups.

• Limit on time spent on internet.

• Control the data quantity being sent and received from the computer.

• Keywords based blocking for email, chat, IM, and P2P sites.

• Restriction on download and execution of programs

• Search engines with image blocking

Customer Support:

The technical support is available via the website SoftForYou.com, when purchased a full version. FAQ section is also available to get answers to common questions on the link http://www.softforyou.com/ip-

faq.html.

Quick Web filtering with My Nabyoo

My Nabyoo provides a quick and easy web filtering without much of customization tools. A download of My Nabyoo is available on its website. It can be set it filtering mode from Weak to Medium or Strong. With My Nabyoo parents can be rest assured that their children are under protection from inappropriate contents on websites. The user interface of My Nabyoo is clean and enough self-explanatory. "Settings" tab can be used to alter the settings for keyword blocking, chatting, and other P2P programs. Under "Security" tab, parents can change the program’s administrative password. Under "Blocking" tab, a list of websites to be blocked can be added. Parents can even write a customized message that is shown when somebody tries to access a blocked website. "Patrol" is used to prohibit or allow P2P file sharing and programs to run. Under "History", screen shots of online websites visited are available on a periodic basis. Parents can monitor kid’s online activities from kid’s being totally unaware of.

This is the interesting feature in My Nabyoo that allows parents to protect their children from exposing them to potentially harmful persons. Parents can also restrict showing any private information to other persons via internet. Many times, without knowing the danger, children give out their private information like full name, address, school they study which can lead to kidnapping, stalking and even worse dangers.

My Nabyoo also have a stealth mode for monitoring with which is not detected by kids or any users of the computer. When kids know, that there are restrictions on some websites or chat programs, they always try to find some new ones. In this way, it becomes never ending battle between parents and children. Stealth mode can be good answer to get rid of this problem.

Features:

• Various modes to filter web content and images
• Stealth mode to monitor under cover
• Daily reports of pages and sites visited.
• Block sites on keywords basis

Watch Online Activities with Safe Eyes

Parenting in the modern world is not so easy. As a parent, one needs to organize many things. Not easy job always, but at the same time, it is rewarding and to be proud of. Parents have a big responsibility to keep their children safe from all types of insecurities, protecting them from any kind of inappropriate things and information. The same applies to the internet access as well, as during these days, children can found more times online than adults. A kind of parental control software is definitely required to keep an eye on kid’s internet activities. Children are exposed to all kinds of cyber threats, especially on social networking sites.


Safe Eyes parental control software comes to your help in such situation. It is a powerful internet filter program, available as a download. It is hard to skip through it without knowing an administrative password. After installing, setup can be done using a desktop icon. During setup, users can be added (or removed) with their configurations. While adding a new user, its type can be selected from a Young Child from 0-7 years, Teen with age range 8-13 years, Teen from age 14-17 years, and 18 years or above as an Adult.

While reviewing, we chose a Teen profile with the filter set to violence, drugs, pornography, and also set to use "safe searching" on various search engines. With the medium filtering mode, certain videos were blocked, explicit downloads from instant messaging (IMs) and internet chat rooms were also blocked. Access to the social networking sites was completely blocked in the above setup with default settings. The great feature of Safe Eyes application is that one can alter the default settings to suit their own needs.

Features:

• Limitation can be put on the online time usage per day
• Completely block chat rooms and IMs
• Age group based content filtering options
• Safe Searching feature for search engines so children can make searches on the internet sites without visiting any webpage with offensive content.
• Usage on three computers for no additional cost
• Immediate alerts system
• Monitoring reports with details are available

Customer Support:
Safe Eyes has free customer support 24 hours a day, 7 days per week on the phone number 1-877-944-8080. Customers can send email for support on the link provided on the company’s website http://www.internetsafety.com/support/contact-support.php.

Summary
Overall, Safe Eyes is a good tool while looking for parental control software. Parents can easily setup the program in minutes and get going.