Good News for You and Your
Children--NET NANNY PARENTAL Lock-Out For Your Computer |
By: Jeanne Harwood Jeanne@BizNetOnline.com |
Good News for You and Your Children--NET NANNY
The Internet is fast becoming a part of everyone's life; after all, you are here! With access becoming easier and easier, the already staggering number of 30 million subscribers is growing exponentially each month. Soon nearly all the people with home computers will be a part of the 'Internet community'. This has many benefits:
- Sharing of resources and ideas.
- Communicating with people in remote corners of the globe.
- Access to the huge amounts of readily accessible reference materials.
But, like any 'community' it has its darker side, to list just a few:
- Hate mail.
- Racist speeches.
- Pornographic material.
- Bomb and drug formulas.
Obviously there is no end to the vast amount of other sensitive and inappropriate information is being sent right into our homes along with everything else.
This is where Net Nanny steps in, by acting as an invisible monitor between the Internet and your family. It operates quietly in the background, carefully screening out user defined sites, 'Words', 'Phrases', and any content that you have determined is inappropriate.
- Prevent your Personal Information from being given out over the Internet: Address, Phone Numbers, Credit Card Numbers.
- Provides users with "can go" and "can't go web site lists that can be downloaded into screening databases.
- Prevent User- definable words, phrases, personal information, Internet web sites, Internet news groups, and IRC groups from being sent, being received by, or accessed by your PC.
- Mask inappropriate words, phrases or language.
- Operates with all major Online Providers and in e-mail and IRC.
- Screen all PC activity including TCP/IP streams, Internet tools and other
- Bulletin Board Services (BBS) online, and any and all Windows or DOS applications.
- Net Nanny has other convenient functions - tell Net Nanny what you do not want entered or received on your terminal. Select the terminal action you want to take for violations: Log the hit, mask words on screen, give a warning, block access, or shutdown the application, or any combination thereof.
- Install, enable, disable, or remove easily (requires Administrator privileges and a password).
- Administration Program allows access to all Net Nanny functions.
- Parents, Teachers or Employers may Add, Modify, or Delete screening list items at any time. The lists are completely customizable and editable!
- Parents, Teachers or Employers may turn Net Nanny on and off, at their own discretion.
- Cannot be turned off unless done through the Administration Program.
- Net Nanny operates with or without your children knowing.
As you can see, if your children have access the Internet then Net Nanny is a product you or your business should be looking at.
For More Information see NETNANNY at http://www.netnanny.com
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