Kids these days often know more about computers and the Internet than their parents. They can find almost anything on the Internet, including things parents wish they hadn’t found. There are tons of parental control solutions available, at prices from moderate to quite high. Fortunately, there are also a few free ones, and some of them are quite good.
Norton Online Family
Norton Online Family is free software that lets parents monitor the websites their children visit as well as what they search for online and who they chat with. Not only can parents set time-limits for how long their offspring can use the PC for, they can also see their social networking activities and even receive an email report about all of the kid’s online activities.
Windows Live Family Safety
Microsoft’s free parental controls software, Windows Live Family Safety, is part of its Windows Live Essentials package that includes MSN Messenger and Microsoft’s webmail client. Users can block specific sites and applications as well as controlling how long kids can use a computer.For more information on the parental controls software see our How to use Windows Live Family Safety tutorial.
K9 Web Protection
K9 Web Protection is a comprehensive parental controls and web filtering package that will keep the whole family safe online.The program is able to block access to many web sites, according to their category: pornography, drugs, hacking, gambling, hate sites and more. Some pre-defined profiles speed up this process. Selecting ‘High’, for instance, blocks almost everything and is suitable for very young children, while the ‘Minimal’ profile is more relaxed, a better option for teenagers.
UPCleaner
UPCleaner – the Ultimate PC Cleaner is, in simplest terms, a disk cleanup tool as the best Windows PC optimization tools. Its web security protection is also a free internet filter and parental control software for your home Windows. UPCleaner puts you in control of the Internet so you can protect your kids. It may secure your browser with the one-click lock, which blocks websites in more than 70 categories, including pornography, gambling, drugs, violence/hate/racism, malware/spyware, phishing.
