Safe Search
The best way to protect children from the inappropriate
content on the Internet is to start from 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.
Family-Safe Search is important for two reasons:
- Search is how people find illicit material and
it is how illicit material finds people. Your children may
be using search to find pornography. But it is also
well-known some porn sites are "spamming" 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.
With Net Nanny's powerful, integrated search you don't have
to compromise quality in order to protect your family.
User Setup
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.
- Install quickly with no special knowledge in 10 minutes
- Set age-specific limits for Web surfing, file-sharing,
and chat
- Enforce different time limits for younger children,
teenagers, and adults
- Use passwords to give parents unrestricted and unlimited
usage
- View monitoring reports for each child's activity
separately
Web Filtering
Web filtering means two things: blocking objectionable
material and allowing everything else. For parents, this means
being able to reliably manage what web sites their children
see. Kids need to be able to access much of the web for its
informational, educational, and entertainment content.
Unfortunately, a lot of what's out there is obscene, promotes
hate and violence, or solicitious.
Net Nanny gives parents the tools they need to know
exactly what their kids can and cannot see.
- Fully viewable and editable block lists
- The ability to "whitelist" certain web sites so that
only those sites, and no others, may be visited or
viewed
- Keyword lists that filter out inappropriate, vulgar, or
sexual terms on web pages, in chat rooms, and in e-mails
- Pop-up blockers to keep your screen from filling up with
advertisements from adult solicitors and other over-zealous
advertisers
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Internet Application Blocking
Many parents think of the "Internet" as a single
application or a service provided by their phone or cable
company. In fact, the Internet is accessible by dozens of
individual applications, such as a web browser, e-mail client,
online chat program, etc. all of which may expose children to
inappropriate content or dangerous people.
A comprehensive Parental Control program must give parents
the ability to restrict access to applications they know or
do not know about. Net Nanny 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.
- Blocking access to chat and instant messaging is one of
the most effective ways to stop sexual predators
- Blocking access to Internet games and newsgroups
prevents children from participating in inappropriate topics
and violent or addictive games
- Prevent illegal downloading of copyrighted or obscene
material and protect your family
Time Management
Children are often exposed to objectionable materials (and
other people who traffic them) because their activities cannot
be easily supervised. Time limits give parents the tools they
need to restrict the times of day their kids use the Internet
and the amount of time they spend online.
- Limit the total amount of time spent online per day
- Set up separate limits for different family members
- Block the Internet late at night or when children cannot
be easily supervised
- Help prevent Internet addiction and promote healthy
computer habits
Logging and Monitoring
Net Nanny can block and control Internet access for a
variety of applications: web browsing, Internet chat, file
sharing, and e-mail. But, for many parents, it is just as
important to know what their kids are doing. In some
families, monitoring and strict household rules may compliment
or supercede the blocking features in Net Nanny. For parents
who are new to the Internet, monitoring activity is the first
step towards deciding if children have safe Internet habits to
begin with.
- Use monitoring to alert parents to both intentional and
unintentional violations by children
- Keep track of what kids are chatting about online and
with whom
- Receive separate activity reports on each child by
e-mail to stay current with their activities
- Use monitoring as a tool to establish family values and
enforce discipline
Privacy Protection
Your private information is valuable to those who would use
it to exploit your family Net Nanny protects your private
information by filtering it out of the data that leaves your
computer in e-mail, chat rooms, and on the web.
- Stop sexual predators and financial scammers from
learning your whereabouts and other sensitive information
- Prevent marketers from tracking your children with
invisible "cookies" left behind in your computer
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