Cyber Sitter Review

CYBERsitter is an excellent choice for filtering websites; protecting your children from viewing indecent materials such as pornography and sites with violent and other inappropriate content. This software unlike older Internet filter systems, only block sites that needed to be blocked and do not overblock what’s not meant to be blocked.

Exclusive Feature

CYBERsitter has a distinctive function to scan your hard drive for offensive materials and at the same time, it helps to locate any type of spying software that was intentionally or unintentionally installed in your computer. CYBERsitter is also the only parental control software that has the ability to filter your mail.

However, this feature might not be useful as it capability to filter email is not as great as other typical spam filtering product in the market.

When a site is blocked, this software works in a way that your children might not know that you are actually controlling their online activities. The site will appear blank or a message like “Page Not Found” will show instead. This way, your children will not know that the site is actually blocked. Although this could be a little confusing, you and your children will get use to it soon enough.

Using The Software

CYBERsitter is not exactly easy to use especially when it comes to the filtering process. You have to first make sure that the Default to Active Filtering Mode turned on to make sure that it works smoothly. But after that, the system will on automatically.

Installing the software

The installation process is relatively easy but you might discover that the email notification system might distort during the setup process that is if you are using Windows 2000. This small bug will not affect Windows XP.

Effectiveness

CYBERsitter delivers an excellent result in blocking all necessary sites. It does not overblock and underblock sites.

Summary

CYBERsitter is overall a good product with a few negligible weaknesses.