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

Net Nanny – Right way to Protect from Web

Net Nanny is the well-known name in the internet filtering and surveillance tools. In spite of the popularity and recognition, it is not at par monitoring tool when compared to the other software in competition.

This application is good for internet vigilance for kids under the age of 10. However, it might not be that useful and effective to older kids. When used for policing internet usage for older kids, many loop-holes may crop up. Yet it is easy to use, comparatively cheap and effective for younger kids. In fact, it acts as well as a mere block and gives good value for your money.

Features

The application, Net Nanny, breaks the rules of the industry in a way to show the list of blocked sites. This is a very nice feature; however, these sites are not grouped into various categories. Sometimes, this long list of blocked websites may be a bit discouraging to the parents who want to modify the list to keep it updated with the new websites coming up every day.

The most desirable feature is the time control and the capability to entirely block total categories of web content, for example - newsgroups. With this the user can eliminate objectionable content embedded in the normal pages which kids often visit.

However, when Net Nanny has the good capability to scan through the documents and web-pages for un-appropriate language and content, at the same time it fails to block the offensive images. For text matter, it replaces the wrong words with the pound sign but the content in the form of images is escaped from the filter.

Ease of use

Net Nanny is very easy to use, with its simple user interface. The process of setup is also very easy which helps to set default user account in little time. This is a good software to the aid of the novice parents who have recently started learning computer and are keen to protect their kids from the offensive contents available on internet.

Effectiveness?

The activity reports are quite detailed, they cover - number of online sessions, web sites visited during session, files downloaded, and filters violations per session. Here again the screen capturing is not available so overall effectiveness is low.

The information can be made available on other computer via periodic email of the reports. So apart from updating the list of blocked sites, the access to the computer under monitor is not necessary.

Customer Support

The customer support from the Net Nanny team is good. They offer free support by email or an option of phone call with rate $19.95 per call is also available.