Starting Monday April 27th, Symantec will make available for free OnlineFamily.Norton until January 2010. Norton Online Family is a parental control tool that will allow parents to easily monitor their children’s activities online.
The software which is small and uses very few resources, will monitor your child’s instant messaging, what websites they visit, alert you if they enter false information on social networking sites such, prevent them from sharing personal information with strangers, and it gives it to you all in a clear easy to understand web interface.
I have been using the service as a beta tester for the past 5 months and I like it a lot, but since my review of the Beta a lot has changed.
The user interface is more streamlined, and all the bugs I have noticed in the beta seem to be gone.
I personally use the service mainly to monitor my moms and nephews computer. Since I have had the service installed on my moms computer I have yet to have 1 call from her about her PC being slow and or she has a virus. Because I was able to easily block those threats remotely. I didn’t even have to go to her home after the software was installed, and it’s a tiny piece of software so it won’t interfere with your systems performance.
Everything about it is so easy to use also, that anyone can figure it out and the information provided by the software is so valuable.
When I first installed the software on my nephews computer, he tried to visit adult sites which I was quickly notified of. What is funny is OnlineFamily.Norton alerts him that the website contains adult content, and ya know sometimes he may be doing homework and that content may pertain tot he subject he is covering, so he can easily bypass the block by entering why he needs to visit the website. You of course are alerted and if the website really isn’t what your kid says it is, then punishment time for them.
The service is great, and an essential piece of software especially in this day of age where perverts roam the Internet, so if you are a parent download this software today it’s free until January 2010, and after that the cost of $60 a year is well worth your kids security.
Update April 23rd 2009 @ 3:30 PM EST:
The correct name of the service is OnlineFamily.Norton, during the beta it was known as Norton Online Family.
Comments: (1)
Mark Ewans on Fri, Feb 05th, 2010 at 12:53 PM
You do give a detail here. I have study a destiny about this on different articles written by other people, merely I must admit that you experience showed your point here!.
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