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Please note: The reports in this section are not product reviews or tests; they're meant to spotlight options for you to consider, as well as milestones in children's online-safety technology development. Comments from readers on their own experiences with these products and services are most welcome - and, with your permission, we publish them. Do email us your own product reviews anytime!
Family Guardian (July 21, '00 issue)
Family Guardian, out just six months, is in the crowded online-safety-tools category, where software products increasingly seem to have to differentiate themselves by adding more and more features. Family Guardian includes filtering, monitoring, and time-out features for all computer activity, not just when a child is connected to the Internet. Parents can check when a child's been online, where s/he's been, what applications have been used (besides an Internet browser), search the hard drive, and set up when s/he can be on the computer. As for filtering, the product's designer, Michael Lee, told us there are more than 20,000 blocked URLs (Web pages) in the database and there is keyword filtering as well. He says parents can add or delete both URLs and keywords. A caveat and a request: At the moment, we don't have the resources to test the products we tell you about, so - if you try Family Guardian - do let us know what you think.
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