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Kidswatch Internet Security Parental Control V5
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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)
Product DescriptionKidsWatch is a 2008 Award Winning Internet Safety and Parental Control software package that can meet the challenges facing parents 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 c. . . More >>
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August 6, 2010 -
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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.
Rating: 3 / 5
The product was impossible to set up and ridiculously cumbersome to use. I returned it.
Rating: 1 / 5
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!
Rating: 1 / 5
I would advise NOT buying this software. I have contacted the company 4 times for help in resolving an issue, and I never got any kind of response. If you buy it, you should pray that there are no issues for your computer.
Rating: 1 / 5
The program works well
It will take some time if you plan on using it on more than one computer for all the set up. You will need to setup users on your computer so you can have a kids watch admin.
I would recomend this program if you need to set up times for your kids use of computer and internet. On the filering that seems to work well also but can’t say how well, at this time I have only had the program for a week or so.
Rating: 5 / 5