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Online Mall - Kidswatch Internet Security Parental Control V5
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List Price: $29.95
Our Price: $23.89
Your Save: $ 6.06 ( 20% )
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Manufacturer: Red Frog Group
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Red Frog Group
EAN: 0895379000047
Feature: Select from 7 predefined settings based on age OR Customize settings for each user OR Clone the restrictions of an existing user
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Red Frog Group
Manufacturer: Red Frog Group
Model: KW107
Platform: Windows 2000
Publisher: Red Frog Group
Release Date: 2006-09-08
Studio: Red Frog Group
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Features
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Select from 7 predefined settings based on age OR Customize settings for each user OR Clone the restrictions of an existing user
MONITOR (Child Activity Reports) Records Chat/Instant Messaging and Visited sites
BLOCK (Website/Internet Filtering) - Offensive Websites, Restrict Access to Programs
PROTECT against Sexual Predator & Chat Alerts - Receive email notifications when suspect words or phrases are encountered inchat conversations; Prevent inappropriate website content exposure; Restrict and monitor access to chat rooms and instant messaging
LIMIT - Computer & Internet Access Time + Game Playing - Limit Internet surfing, chatting and game playing to a time and duration appropriatefor each user; Define computer curfews (i.e. 10pm on school nights)
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Kidswatch trashed my computer--be careful with yours!
Comment: Here's my review of Kidswatch: I downloaded the free trial of Kidswatch, and although I could configure it, I was surprised to see Kidswatch could only be used to monitor my kids if I bought Kidswatch (not exactly my idea of a free trial to let me configure users, hours, etc. but still not use it to control my kids' usage until I pay). So I talked to the kids, who decided to create their own self-monitoring log, and I uninstalled Kidswatch. Thought I was done.
But wait! Now all users cannot access the control panel, including me!! It's gone! If I search on "control panel", it appears, but if I run it, I'm told I cannot run it because of restrictions on the computer, and to check with my system administrator (I'm at home, and own the computer, so this means check with myself). I contacted Kidswatch technical support, and they had no solution for me. Thank you!
I am using a new HP Pavilion computer with Windows Vista Ultimate operating system. If just installing it and uninstalling it does this, I cannot imagine how much it trashes up your computer if you buy it and activate it! Good luck!
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Summary: Useless
Comment: The product was impossible to set up and ridiculously cumbersome to use. I returned it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Does not really improve much on Vista parental controls
Comment: good idea and easy to install and configure, but i could never get the remote admin feature to work, and too many normal websites like google and yahoo got blocked, and the limit on total hours feature assumes you login logout each time pc is used, it cannot detect actual pc activity, so if you leave the pc on, but dont use it, you come back to find out you are locked out. I have reverted to using only the Vista builtin parental controls which cover most of the bases.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Better Than Being the "Screen Police"!
Comment: The kids can argue with you all day long about more computer time, but when the computer shuts down automatically after a pre-determined amount of time, it's final! I love this program. It's not quite as intuitive as I had hoped, but then again I'm no computer genius . . .
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sounds good in theory
Comment: This product probably works great, but I've not actually gotten it installed/set-up completely to thoroughly try it out. I want to use this on my Vista machine, and Vista is a bit foreign to me to begin with. I procrastinated in installing it after it arrived, and then when I did I can't say the installation screens were too clear on what exacty I was doing. Shortly after the install we started having problems getting to the internet. The computer would just chug and chug and chug. I'm not sure if this product was the reason, but I ended up uninstalling to try and remedy the problem and haven't gotten around to re-installing.
I have two children ages 8 and 5. During the set-up I was prompted to set-up a password for each user. I'm not sure if I had to, but there weren't clear instructions on what the purpose of each field was, and whether it was required. Needless to say, the 5 year old was confused and required assistance each time he wanted to just use the computer to play a CD game. This became a bit frustrating for both of us.
I'm sure this product is great-- I was impressed by previous user's reviews. I've just not been successful in understanding how to properly set this program up.
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Editorial Reviews:
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KidsWatch is a family product that can meet the challenges facing parents today in how to protect children from the negative aspects of computer use, while accentuating on the positive.
Your children are growing in a computer age and many are quite adept at using software and browsing the web. And other outside web users are well aware of that too. Protect your kids and control their use of the PC. KidsWatch is a 2008 Award Winning family product that can meet the challenges facing parents today on how to protect children from the negative aspects of computer use. Help your kids stay away from trouble and take the next step in parental supervision - computer supervision! Limit Internet surfing, chatting & game play. Receive email notifications when suspect words or phrases are encountered in chat conversations. Monitor chat, websites visited, programs used and computer use. Install today to create a peaceful & safe environment. It's like an electronic babysitter for your PC! Install KidsWatch today to create a peaceful and safe PC environment. EASY TO USE & INSTALL Free Technical Support / System Requirements - PC - Windows 2000, XP, Vista with 133 Mhz processor or better and10MB available hard-disk space and 32MB RAM, CD ROM Drive Protect Windows access - Restrict access to the contents of selected drives ;Remove the Run command from the Start menu; Restrict access to Control Panel's Add or Remove Programs; Restrict Taskbar and Start Menu property changes; Restrict Display property changes; Prevent users from connecting to the Windows Update Web Site
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