[dba-Tech] Child's play

Huge thanks to everyone for their opinions. I'll pass them on.

-- 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 
> Kath Pelletti
> Sent: 29 September 2004 02:52
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Child's play
> 
> 
> Andy - I have installed Norton Internet Security for my kids' 
> PC (ages 5, 9,11). The initial cost was about $AUD110, but on 
> renewal it was half that for the subsequent year subscription.
> 
> We have found it brilliant and very easy to use - you just 
> set up a default user (one of the kids) and the default 
> settings of child / teen / adult are very good. My kids are 
> mad on NeoPets which Norton mysteriously blocked - and I had 
> to adjust a 'privacy' setting to allow that site through - 
> that's the only tweaking I've done.
> 
> I did try some freeware such as 'We Blocker' which was OK but 
> not as good, because Norton is so robust. That's my top pick. 
> When we used We Blocker we felt like Nazi parents because it 
> overblocked sites and they got really frustrated. Norton's 
> blocking goes almost entirely unnoticed to the kids - they 
> would only notice it if they specifically tried to do what 
> your friend's kids did.
> 
> The only worry we found for the kids was that on their PC we 
> allow them to use Kazaa Lite (don't shoot me.....- my oldest 
> son and friends want to download music). I know that it is 
> Spyware etc etc but I can wipe the disk clean every couple of 
> years if I need to - their PC is theirs alone.
> 
> Anyway, I noticed that despite having Norton Internet 
> Security installed you can actually download *anything* - the 
> kids got quite a surprise when they actually downloaded an 
> X-rated Simpsons video!! So that program also has a menu 
> setting to block violence / porn etc. which is password protected. 
> 
> Norton Int Security includes Norton antivirus which is a 
> pretty good deal.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Kath
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Andy Lacey 
>   To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' 
>   Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:51 AM
>   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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