Parental Control Software

Parental Control Software should be required on all computers used by children under age 18. Many ISPs (Internet Service Providers) such as AOL, MSN, Earthlink and others have automatic filtering available for their members, but automatic filtering pretty much eliminates the same thing for everyone. It removes your individuality.

The purpose of parental control software should be that parents are in control of what their children see or don't see on the Internet. Should you trust AOL, MSN or any other ISP to know what's best for your children?

Net Nanny stands head and shoulders above the rest. Net Nanny is a software program that you purchase and download to your personal computer. It is the only such software that offers family-safe filtered searches of the Internet.

The people at LookSmart commissioned a study of parents who used Net Nanny, AOL and Norton. The parents then voted for what they thought was the best. Net Nanny outscored the other two by a 2 to 1 margin.

The best way to protect children from the inappropriate content on the Internet is to start at the source. Most content is found through searches on the popular search engine sites. At Net Nanny's Family-Safe Search site, the screening process starts at the source.

Search is how people find illicit material and it is how illicit material finds people. Your children may be using search to find pornography accidentally. But it is also well-known some porn sites are buying their way into legitimate search results. So a child who does a search on some search engines for Britney Spears often doesn't just find fan sites, sometimes they find inappropriate sites masquerading as legitimate sites.

Net Nanny's Family-Safe Search is an incredibly powerful system -- hundreds of computers working together to process data on hundreds of millions sites. With the integrated Net Nanny Safe-Search Toolbar, your family is able to search the Internet and get clean, safe search results.

Flexibility -- Parents need flexibility and ease of use. Internet technologies change quickly and can be difficult to master; your parental control software shouldn't be.

With Net Nanny software, parents can choose from a default anybody configuration, with age-appropriate settings suitable to families with teenagers and adults, or set up profiles for each of up to 12 family members with separate passwords, restrictions, and monitoring levels.

Internet Filtering -- Internet filtering means two things: blocking objectionable material and allowing everything else. For parents, this means being able to reliably manage what websites their children see. Children need to be able to access much of the web for its informational, educational, and entertainment content. But there is a lot of stuff out there that is simply not suitable for young people. Net Nanny gives parents the tools they need to know exactly what their children can and cannot see.

Application Blocking -- There are many applications that can be used to access the Internet. Logging on to the Internet is just one. Email is another. Messenger services pose another way. Net Nanny gives parents the ability to restrict access to applications they know or do not know about. It stops many different kinds of applications from communicating on the Internet. That way, parents can block chat, for example, without knowing about all of the different kinds of chat programs available.

Time Management -- A major complaint of parents is the amount of time their children spend on the Internet and the fact that much of that time is unsupervised. Net Nanny allows parents to control the time of day and how much time children have access to the world wide web.

Net Nanny also includes monitoring and privacy provisions that allows parents to know what their children are seeing on the Internet but also with the comfort that no private information about the child or family is secretly being obtained from the computer.

Net Nanny offers a 15-day free trial that includes the Internet safe-search toolbar. Click here for more information about Net Nanny.

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Parental Control Software