07-02-2008, 12:06 AM
My kids are grown up now, but I shared their concern. Here's the deal. Tell them that restricting the PC is a failed plan form the start. They should take a ?trust but verify" approach. Programs like Netnanny work to a point, but they also limit the valid sites in error. Also allot of these programs depend on web site operators to play by self governing rules. For instance, many porn sites set flags that these programs screen for, but the ones that do this are not the guys they should be worried about.
The real danger to kids right now is online scum bag predators. These guys dont hang out at porn sites, they hang out at myspace sites and aol IM and act like 13 year old kids. Theres also new "cyber bulling" stuff going on.
So they should take to approach I did.
1. Talk to your kids and tell them to never EVER put their personnel info out on public forums. Name, town city, age, school, etc.
2. Tell kids to never ever meet someone in person you met online, unless your parents are with you and approve.
3. Set the rules. Tell them what they can and cant do. Tell them to NOT answer yes, whent hat pop says, Are yoiu sure you want to run this executable?"
4. Tell them that if they go to a place on the web that was disturbing, they should close the browser and talk to their parents about it. Its not their fault if they accidentally went somewhere. Talk about it, its ok.
4. TRUST BUT VERIFY. They should monitor to the browsers history, cookies etc. Spectorsoft is a very cool program that runs in stealth mode and can track every key stroke, every IM every web page on the PC. It can even email daily reports in stealth, so you can track whats up.
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I've used it and it works very well and is not very resource intensive.
The real danger to kids right now is online scum bag predators. These guys dont hang out at porn sites, they hang out at myspace sites and aol IM and act like 13 year old kids. Theres also new "cyber bulling" stuff going on.
So they should take to approach I did.
1. Talk to your kids and tell them to never EVER put their personnel info out on public forums. Name, town city, age, school, etc.
2. Tell kids to never ever meet someone in person you met online, unless your parents are with you and approve.
3. Set the rules. Tell them what they can and cant do. Tell them to NOT answer yes, whent hat pop says, Are yoiu sure you want to run this executable?"
4. Tell them that if they go to a place on the web that was disturbing, they should close the browser and talk to their parents about it. Its not their fault if they accidentally went somewhere. Talk about it, its ok.
4. TRUST BUT VERIFY. They should monitor to the browsers history, cookies etc. Spectorsoft is a very cool program that runs in stealth mode and can track every key stroke, every IM every web page on the PC. It can even email daily reports in stealth, so you can track whats up.
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I've used it and it works very well and is not very resource intensive.
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