RE: parental controls

And one addition....

Physically locate all internet-connected computers in family areas, never in a child's bedroom.

Byron Hynes
Windows Server
Microsoft Corporation

http://spaces.msn.com/members/byronphynes

Hello
<<< Read all suggestions ,but special look at suggestion number 3
>>>
Do not trust your children fully.Install a good software/s/ to help
protect your PC and your family's privacy

1. Create your children limited user accounts in Windows XP

So they will have their own My documents folder
but will not be able to access PC settings
Limited users can download everything but cannot install anything
,so they cannot install any spyware/virus in the family's computer.
Children limited account should NOT be password-protected !!!

Parent administartor account should be password-protected !!!

!!! Windows XP has hidden built-in administartor account
accessable and visible only in Safe Mode.
Get into Safe Mode and password protect it.
In Safe Mode,goto Control Panel -User accounts and click on the name
of that hidden account,called Administrator !!!
2. Turn on Internet Explorer's Content Advisor

It would help your children not to open pornographic pages and pages
with bad content

Start- Settings - Control Panel - Internet Options - Content tab
and then enable it and check the settings
Password -protect it .
For example :
Language level : 1
Nudity level : 2
Sex level : 3
Violence level : 1
2.1 MSN toolbar

This toolbar become more useful everyday
It has either pop-up blocker and also Anti-Phising filter
Recently Microsoft had established this Anti-phishing filter
as an add-in for the Toolbar
http://toolbar.msn.com to get the toolbar
http://toolbar.msn.com click on Add-ins and search for the
Anti-Phishing
Antiphishing would help to protect your family from online fraud

3. Microsoft has made a component to help protect a computer
that is used by many people.It prevents limited users from access to
^chosen by the admin user^ programs and files and also prevent them
from downloading files and other things
It is easy to use and can be configured to meet everybody's needs
It is called Share access toolkit
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/faq.mspx

/example : A parent with Administrator rights can prevent a children
with limited account to use a chat program or download a new one /

4. When a child (with limited acount) uses the internet ,
the computer should always have
an antivirus software ON + firewall always ON
Panda_man

"gctech" wrote:

I got got dsl. I find the parental controls useless because my son
can get online anytime (it's always connected) How can I make sure
that the only access he has to the we is through my MSN browser which
has the parental controls?



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