Computer monitoring programs: A Parent’s Best friend

Nowadays being on the internet is second nature to kids. Children are exposed to the Internet as early as kindergarten and about 70% of kids from thirteen to seventeen have social networking profiles. While the Internet is a great source of knowledge, it is also a hub for sexual predators, scammers and the growing phenomenon of cyber bullying. A large number of kids online have reported receiving inappropriate messages from people they do not know, sexual solicitations, bullying and some have even personally met people they contacted online. More scary than this is the fact that most parent’s do not know about their children’s online activities. With all these dangers how can parents keep the online safety of their kids without banning the internet from their homes?

Parental controls can help parents block certain sites with adult content but it does not tell if kids are meeting people online. Parental controls alone does not seem to be enough. Having a computer monitoring program installed other than parental controls can help keep children away from these dangers. A computer monitoring program is a “friendly spyware” and acts as an online nanny that record and monitors social networking activities, emails, chats and even provides screenshots of online activities. It also filters and blocks potentially dangerous sites that have adult content.

The Spector Pro 2010 is one of the best computer monitoring programs available in the market. It has recording capabilities, internet access and chat blocking, filtering and social network monitoring. The program will also record keystrokes, files transferred, email, chat, websites and web searches.

The Spector Pro exclusively monitors Multiply and Facebook activities as well as other social networking sites and chatrooms. Parents will be able to see their children’s activities on these social networks, who their online friends are and what information they are sharing. Parents will be able to see what is being posted on their children’s walls. This is an important way to tell what their children’s social life is like and whether a child is experiencing cyber bullying, a growing internet phenomenon.

The web search recording feature lets parents know what kids are searching for when they go to Google, Bing, Yahoo, AOL and MSN. It has an intelligent filtering and blocking system, once it detects potentially harmful content, like if a child is talking to a sexual predator, it notifies parents right away. Parents can also input specific content that they want blocked, as soon as it detects the content, the program sends notification alerts.

It also records the applications being used, parents will be able to see if children are playing games or doing homework. It has a keylogger feature to monitor keystrokes and provides snapshots of open applications.

The Spector Pro is easy to install and works well with antivirus programs and firewalls installed in the computer as long as it is included in the safe list. Spector Pro is available for Mac OS X and Windows. For $99.50, having a powerful surveillance tool to keep a family’s online safety, is a price well worth it.

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