Monitoring Software - What You Need To Know

If you install Internet monitoring software that blocks websites, logs websites visited and filters bad words and pictures your kids could still be in danger!.Unless your software has a key logger, or you have also installed a key logger you will never know who your kids are talking to online. Yes, you will know where they have been online and the time spent there. However, you will not know what others are saying to your child or what you child is saying to others. You will miss critical elements of a conversation that would throw red flags up everywhere to you, but your child would miss.A good key logger is absolutely necessary to capture conversations between your kids and their friends, and supposed friends online. Another advantage of a key logger is the ability to refer to its logs if something terrible does happen. In a worst case scenario, God forbid, were your child does run off or disappears you have your logs to research. Every key stroke typed on your computer over the past weeks, months or years, depending on how often you clean them up, are available for you to read. These logs could be invaluable in discovering who your child was talking to, what they were saying and what was being said to them. A content filterblocker will not do that.

There are software programs that will do it all and others that only do certain parts. I recommend that you do your research thoroughly before purchasing a program to keep your family safe online.The important thing to remember is that you do need to install software. All the experts agree this is the single best thing you can do to keep your family safe online.

When purchasing Internet safety software a few features high on your list should be;

    * Content filter (Filter out inappropriate images and text)
    * Key logger (capture key strokes from both sides of a conversation)
    * Blocker (auto by selectable criteria and manual by entering sites you want blocked)
    * Email alerts (Get immediate alerts when certain, selectable events occur)
    * Nice easily readable reports.
    * Stealth (the ability to run completely invisible to everyone)

Remember, once you have chosen your software and installed that software unless you check up on it from time to time it won't do you any good at all, unless you have to refer to it after an event. The single most important part of Internet safety is you, the parent, getting actively involved with your families Internet usage and staying alert.

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