World Famous Comics: Kidswatch Internet Security Parental Control V5
Kidswatch Internet Security Parental Control V5
From: Red Frog Group Average Rating: Binding: CD-ROM Format: CD-ROM Label: Red Frog Group Model: KW107 Release Date: September 08, 2006
Features:
Select from 7 predefined settings based on age OR Customize settings for each user OR Clone the restrictions of an existing user
MONITOR (Child Activity Reports) Records Chat/Instant Messaging and Visited sites
BLOCK (Website/Internet Filtering) - Offensive Websites, Restrict Access to Programs
PROTECT against Sexual Predator & Chat Alerts - Receive email notifications when suspect words or phrases are encountered inchat conversations; Prevent inappropriate website content exposure; Restrict and monitor access to chat rooms and instant messaging
LIMIT - Computer & Internet Access Time + Game Playing - Limit Internet surfing, chatting and game playing to a time and duration appropriatefor each user; Define computer curfews (i.e. 10pm on school nights)
Product Description: KidsWatch is a family product that can meet the challenges facing parents today in how to protect children from the negative aspects of computer use, while accentuating on the positive.
Your children are growing in a computer age and many are quite adept at using software and browsing the web. And other outside web users are well aware of that too. Protect your kids and control their use of the PC. KidsWatch is a 2008 Award Winning family product that can meet the challenges facing parents today on how to protect children from the negative aspects of computer use. Help your kids stay away from trouble and take the next step in parental supervision - computer supervision! Limit Internet surfing, chatting & game play. Receive email notifications when suspect words or phrases are encountered in chat conversations. Monitor chat, websites visited, programs used and computer use. Install today to create a peaceful & safe environment. It's like an electronic babysitter for your PC! Install KidsWatch today to create a peaceful and safe PC environment. EASY TO USE & INSTALL Free Technical Support / System Requirements - PC - Windows 2000, XP, Vista with 133 Mhz processor or better and10MB available hard-disk space and 32MB RAM, CD ROM Drive Protect Windows access - Restrict access to the contents of selected drives ;Remove the Run command from the Start menu; Restrict access to Control Panel's Add or Remove Programs; Restrict Taskbar and Start Menu property changes; Restrict Display property changes; Prevent users from connecting to the Windows Update Web Site
Does not really improve much on Vista parental controls good idea and easy to install and configure, but i could never get the remote admin feature to work, and too many normal websites like google and yahoo got blocked, and the limit on total hours feature assumes you login logout each time pc is used, it cannot detect actual pc activity, so if you leave the pc on, but dont use it, you come back to find out you are locked out. I have reverted to using only the Vista builtin parental controls which cover most of the bases.
Better Than Being the "Screen Police"! The kids can argue with you all day long about more computer time, but when the computer shuts down automatically after a pre-determined amount of time, it's final! I love this program. It's not quite as intuitive as I had hoped, but then again I'm no computer genius . . .
Sounds good in theory This product probably works great, but I've not actually gotten it installed/set-up completely to thoroughly try it out. I want to use this on my Vista machine, and Vista is a bit foreign to me to begin with. I procrastinated in installing it after it arrived, and then when I did I can't say the installation screens were too clear on what exacty I was doing. Shortly after the install we started having problems getting to the internet. The computer would just chug and chug and chug. I'm not sure if this product was the reason, but I ended up uninstalling to try and remedy the problem and haven't gotten around to re-installing.
I have two children ages 8 and 5. During the set-up I was prompted to set-up a password for each user. I'm not sure if I had to, but there weren't clear instructions on what the purpose of each field was, and whether it was required. Needless to say, the 5 year old was confused and required assistance each time he wanted to just use the computer to play a CD game. This became a bit frustrating for both of us.
I'm sure this product is great-- I was impressed by previous user's reviews. I've just not been successful in understanding how to properly set this program up.
KidsWatch Does What it Said it would do I purchased this software based on reviews on Amazon and I was happy with the purchase. The software was easy to install and has clean user interface. Configuration was easy and I especially like the feature that automatically set computer and internet time quota once you select the user's age group.
My daughter started to hate it at the beginning but that was exactly what the software supposed to do - gave a wartning and cut off access when time was up!
Fantastic product I have wasted a lot of money trying to find a program that can limit internet and computer time for my kids and am so pleased to have found one that works! This product is great because I can turn off internet access from my computer for my kids' computers if they are wasting too much time. I have their internet access set to automatically turn off at 9PM every night which is great too. This product is easy to use and (unlike many competitors) works as advertised.
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