Webroot Parental Controls Review

Child safety is no doubt a growing concern among the majority of parents today. Perhaps the first thing that parents have to ask themselves is that whether their kids are actually safe on the Internet or not? The Internet has posted so much impurity and smuttiness on that the kids nowadays are widely exposed to freely and possibly too young to know the condemnation it imposed on a person's mind. That’s right, we’re talking about Internet porn.

As much as Internet poses its nature of an informatory source, it is not all fun and informative as the parents perceive it to be. It’s good for those who are using it for informative and fun activities but on the other hand, it can be as dangerous as one could imagine it to be if the kids use it for the wrong purpose. Parents who are aware of this fact can definitely take safety measures to protect their kids from adult oriented content and further polluting their mind.

Since the speedy growth of the Internet porn industry, there have been various Internet Parental control softwares available now on the Net. These softwares help parents to monitor and control their children’s web browsing activities; preventing them from being exposed to pornographic websites.

Webroot Features

Parental Controls software by Webroot is one of the many internet filtering software’s available on the market that is easy and effective to use. This software is compatible with the new Windows Vista and the best part is that this software successfully amalgamates itself with the Windows system so that children cannot access to the Windows settings in order to disable the software. Parental Controls is one of the few types of software in which the parents are allowed to set the time limit for their children with respect of chatting, browsing as well as playing games. Another added feature in this software is the automatic log off setting that the parents can set for preventing their children to browse during late night.

Some of the extra software features are:

• Controls the browsing activities of the children with respect of the websites that you don’t want your children to visit. This is done with the help of the categories that are defined in the software such as keywords and websites
• Scheduling is one of the features that this software offers in which the parents are free to set the time as to which the children can browse the Internet, play games, etc
• Parental Controls software gives you the detailed report of what websites your child has been surfing, the programs or applications they had been using, the time that your children were browsing, etc. In short, the software tells you exactly what you want to know about your child’s surfing habits
• Parental Controls also makes sure that your children do not tamper with the activities of the software in any ways. It means that they cannot reinstall the program or change any of the software settings that had previously been set by you
• One of the very few features available in other products that is offered by Webroot’s Parental Controls is that this software can actually run on an entire network of up to 3 computers. This way the software also supports a number of users supports any number of users on each computer. This means that the software can be controlled from any of the computers in the network

Webroot’s Parental Controls software costs $39.95 and it can be run in up to 3 computers.

Customer Service

With respect of the customer support, Webroot has offered a toll free phone number so that the users can get in touch with the technical support to solve any queries related to the product. Apart from this toll free phone line, the users can contact the technical support through e-mail as well as an online help database.

Conclusion

Webroot’s Parental Controls is probably one of the best internet filtering software’s available thereby ensuring the safety of the children’s surfing activities by constant monitoring and control. However it only does internet filtering so you won't be able to monitor and block access to instant messaging, chat rooms, and newsgroups.