Net Nanny Software Suite for Parental Control online filter software suite includes plenty everyday features, just to name a few: the remote access and detailed reporting system. The features of remote accessibility allow you to look through activity journals and adjust software options from any location in the world. So you never miss critical computer activity at your home while being in office, on trip or vacation.
Dynamic Contextual Analysis is doing the job of web content filtering. Its technique analyzes the website’s information to find explicit or inappropriate content and blocks it. Note that sites are checked on-the-fly, without just marking them “good” or “bad”. For example, a respectable news service got blocked in the afternoon because of violent news, but two hours later when the news changed, the block will be removed. In case particular site is believed to be blocked in mistake, parents can override the block by entering the password.
In addition to blocking functions, Net Nanny offers customizable alerts. The user gets an alert when inappropriate information is detected, and two options are given: either to allow or disallow that objectionable material. The feature is also useful for the other side – the parents. A parent receives notification via e-mail or SMS if the child is trying to get access to inappropriate content, for example Jennifer’s Lopez home photos. The frequency and level of detail of reporting can be set by parents according to their preferences (every hour, every day and so on).
Another important mischief that is covered by this program is profanity. The filter scans the whole site and replaces any vulgar or expressive language with random special characters, so the consistency of message meaning is preserved.
PC gaming is a pastime that children get easily addicted to, losing control of their time. Net Nanny is capable of blocking the majority of popular PC games. This feature is based on ESRB rating system, so you can keep the games having a certain rating from running. For example, setting block level to “M” (mature) will disallow your children to start games that include enormous violence or X-rated content. Blocks can be set based on the game titles as well.
Another critical feature that gets more and more demanded is social networking monitor. It is explained by constantly growing popularity of social networks, primarily Facebook and Twitter. Net Nanny logs and analyzes such online activity and lets the parents to familiarize themselves with their children’s profiles, lists of friends, wall conversations, pictures and videos. Some parents respect privacy of their kids, but sometimes switching on the logging of instant messaging conversations can also help to prevent your kid from getting into trouble or misunderstanding.
Net Nanny detects proxy serves which can be used to bypass its built-in filters and blocks them before the user has a chance to use them. This way, the lapse in protection does not occur. Net Nanny is aware of and knows how to block: local proxies, application-level proxies and online proxies.
Keep track of the child’s searches in commonly used search engines and the history of visited webpages. Whatever browser is installed on your kid’s computer (IE, Mozilla, Opera, Google Chrome or Safari), Net Nanny logs searches on Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. and then presents gathered statistics in a form of charts and datagrams, thus providing you with analytical information on your child’s searches.