Control Software
Parental Control Software
The Internet gives us the world at our fingertips.
Unfortunately, sometimes those fingers belong to a child.
While innocently surfing 'the net', children can be exposed
to inappropriate material. They may accidentally reveal
personal information, their own or their parents' credit
card data, for example.
The first line of defense is to teach your child how to use
the Internet safely. Children are interested in computers
and the Internet as early as age two, and young children can
be easily guided to appropriate web sites that provide
entertainment and education.
As children get older, however, it becomes more difficult to
supervise all their online activities. By adolescence, they
may engage in viewing pornography or chatting online with
potential predators. Sometimes they'll post photos of
themselves and provide information that could allow
pedophiles to approach them.
Being involved with your child's online activities helps
limit some of these risks. Keeping the computer in the
living room or just being interested in what they view may
be enough to help children resist the temptation of
'forbidden' sites.
It's usually not possible, though, to supervise all their
online activities. Scary thought, but when you're at work or
shopping you can't know what your child is being exposed to.
Or can you?
In fact, there are a variety of software and hardware tools
that can limit your child's Internet access or monitor his
or her computer activities. Most cost very little, some are
even free, others are simply helpful tips for how to
restrict access.
FILTERS
Filtering software works by blocking certain web sites or
specific keywords. Parents can specify them or use a
pre-built list. For example, a list of pornographic or
otherwise inappropriate sites is provided by the software
vendor and can be updated from their web site. Any time your
child tries to access one of these web sites he or she will
get a 'HTTP 404 Page Not Found' or similar message.
Filters can also be set up to block access to certain types
of Internet traffic such as instant messaging, newsgroups,
e-mail, or peer-to-peer (P2P) hosting. The latter is often
used for file exchanges.
These filters aren't perfect and it's next to impossible for
a database to be completely up-to-date because new web sites
come onto the Internet all the time, but they help.
Another type of software records all your child's computer
activity - sites visited, e-mails sent or received, programs
run, even individual keystrokes in some cases.
Another option is to install software which restricts
computer use to certain times during the day. The computer
shuts off at scheduled times or when a certain amount of
data has been downloaded from the Internet. Actually Windows
has built-in facilities for doing this, but configuring it
requires a level of expertise beyond the average user.
Software exists which can block your child's name, address
or other personal details as specified by the parent from
being sent.
BROWSERS
Some browsers are specifically designed for children that
incorporate many of the filters discussed above. They're
easier for children to use than Internet Explorer or Firefox
but don't rely solely on this type of browser, however.
Internet Explorer can't be un-installed from the Windows
operating system and any net savvy kid will probably find
out how to gain access to it.
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