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CyberPatrol Parental Controls 7.7
Autor Air
- Protect up to 3 PCs with one license
- Protect an unlimited number of users per PC
- Block harmful websites and images
- Restrict chat and instant messaging
- Block downloads of games, music, images and videos
Product DescriptionIt’s a fact. Many kids don’t tell their parents what they do online. They give out their personal information to people they don’t know. They’re stalked by predators in chat rooms and social networking sites. They’re cyber bullied by other kids. They visit websites that contain content you don’t want them to see. They download files that are illegal or harmful to your PC. As the use of the Internet has expanded, so have the threats to young children and teens wh. . . More >>
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April 24, 2010 -
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This looked like it would be a great program for protecting my kids – that is until they turned the computer on and saw the login screen for it. So they immediately new i had installed something. On top of that their Facebook and Oovoo accounts would not run even though they were on the allowed site list. I was very disappointed.
Rating: 2 / 5
This Software is excellent for kids. Is ease tu use and de tecnical support is good.
Rating: 5 / 5
You buy the software, but you only get a one year subscription.
This was a fairly expensive product, and to find out that I was only “renting” it was disapointing. I absolutely feel that this is a case of bait and switch. Read the fine print!
After the year is up, you get annoying pop ups and messages. It also starts making the computer slow to boot up, and there are strange pauses while running. Stay away!
Rating: 1 / 5
I installed it on XP media center, it made my explorer slow , few minutes to open [. . . ]
it is not working on chrom, but not stopping it, so very easy to go around it, just install chrom and browse unsafe sites
chaning rules does not always work, I had to clean all rules and set them again, to make the change I wanted
bottom line , at least on my computer , it was so slow I could not make it work.
Rating: 1 / 5
This product lets me create a list of approved websites. This keeps me from having to create a banned list by having to guess all the places I don’t want my kids to go. I just create a list of places they ARE allowed to go. The product then limits them to only those sites. Combining the allowed sites with allowed keywords, I got the flexibility to allow for the peculiarities of how some of my kids’ favorite sites work. Note that this capability wasn’t clear from the description or even from the company website. Fortunately, the company offers a free trial and after downloading it, I was able to find this ability, what they call “Creating a Yes List” via the built-in help documentation. The only thing that keeps this from getting 5 stars is that it doesn’t allow wildcarding of website names. You either have to key in exact names or fallback on the website keyword functionality. If they add the wildcarding of website names, I think this product would be even stronger. Also the product automatically covered my two main browsers, Firefox (90%) and IE (10%). Some other products I’ve tried only seem to work with IE but left Firefox wide open.
Rating: 4 / 5