[dba-Tech] Child's play

Yea I wondered about NIS. Used NAV for ever but never NIS so not seen the
parental controls. Sounds the right sort of thing. Thanks John.

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> John Bartow
> Sent: 28 September 2004 21:34
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Child's play
> 
> 
> Andy,
> I generally install Norton Internet Security for people that 
> ask me to work on their home PCs. Its got AV, Firewall, and a 
> host of other goodies and is easy on the end user. If they 
> already have NIS on their PC they can turn on the "Parental 
> Controls". If they Norton AV they can get a good price on an 
> upgrade. Sometimes Norton offers competitive upgrade prices 
> too. Parental Controls can be set to allow/disallow content 
> according to general age and then tweaked in a manner you wish.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:51 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Child's play
> 
> 
> Hi folks
> 
> A colleague found her 9 year-old daughter Googling a rude 
> word the other day. Not such a prob but it got her thinking 
> about protecting her child from accessing porn sites, getting 
> rude popups and so on. And then there are chatrooms. God, a 
> whole nasty world of stuff that I never worried about cos the 
> PC in our house is very public and anyway mine were much 
> older by the time they came to use it. Anyway, does anyone 
> with kids have any products (preferably free or dead cheap) 
> they can recommend for this kind of issue.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
> 
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