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Internet Safety - How To Protect Your Kids from Internet Dangers

Learn how to protect your kids online. The Internet can be a dangerous place for children, but armed with information and parental control tools, you can protect your children from these internet dangers. There are tools available to help parents control spam in their email as well as pop-ups while surfing on the Internet. Chat rooms, instant messaging and email are places your children have the opportunity to see objectionable content. Internet safety and safe surfing are important aspects of protecting your children. Explore our site to learn how to keep your kids safe from porn, spam, popups and more.


If you're connected to the Internet, you have a door that the rest of the world can use to enter your computer and whether you're vulnerable to an attack.

To find out if you're vulnerable, visit the Shields Up Web page at http://www.grc.com.

Run by Steve Gibson, head of Gibson Research Corp., the site tests your machine to see if your privacy or data security is at risk.
 

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Tired of Pop-Up Advertisements on Internet Explorer Browser or browsing crashing ?

We recommend Mozilla because it is well coded, multi-platform, open-source, compliant with web standards, and has superior bookmarking and tabbed viewing. It also includes integrated client applications for email, newsgroups, and IRC, although power users may wish to use the specialized Mozilla browser Firefox and their email and Usenet reader Thunderbird. All of these open source applications are fast on all platforms, and getting faster with each release.

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Firefox is an award winning preview of next generation browsing technology from mozilla.org. Firefox empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period. Built with Tab browsing, popup blocking and a number of other seamless innovations, Firefox stands out ahead.
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Visit Mozilla to read more on the Firefox web browser.
PARENT / CHILD AGREEMENT
Review the following agreement with your children and post IT by the computer as a reminder. printable agreement

ONLINE LINGO - acronyms commonly used by kids in Instant Messenger (IM) and chatrooms.

ONLINE RISKS - It is important to note the types of dangers that children may be susceptible to on the Internet.

Child Internet Behaviour,
Be aware of the following
Warning Signs

Your child quickly changes what is on the screen when you walk in the room.

Your child stays up late at night talking to friends online.

You notice links to sexually-explicit or inappropriate sites in the history section of the browser.

Internet Safety

Safe Surfing Tools
We recommend any of the tools below to help you protect your kids.

Symantec Security Check
Test your computer's exposure to online security threats and learn how to make your computer more secure.


TRACKWARE - Detection & Removal Utilities

Lavasoft - Ad-aware
Ad-aware is THE award winning, multi-trackware detection and removal utility (designed for Windows 98 / 98SE / ME / NT40 / 2000 / XP Home / XP Pro) that will comprehensively scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known Datamining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, Keyloggers, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components.

Ad-aware will provide you with the confidence to surf the Internet knowing that your privacy will remain intact.

Download Lavasoft Ad-aware
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FIREWALL SECURITY

WindsorKids.com recommends and promotes ZoneAlarm Pro4 as an effective firewall program. ZoneAlarm has been protecting WindsorKids.com computers for the past 18 months with great success.

Windsor Kids - ZoneAlarm Pro4

  ZoneAlarm PRO4 is the award-winning PC firewall that keeps your personal data and privacy safe from Internet hackers and data thieves. Shield your system with our proven, award-winning personal firewall. Keep hackers at bay with protection against worms, Trojans, spyware, and 47 types of malicious email attachments.

ZoneAlarm Pro includes Cookie Control and Ad Blocking for a faster, safer Internet experience.
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  • Why I Need a Firewall to Protect My Computer - ARTICLE
  • Zone Labs is the leader in personal and distributed firewall technology trusted on over 25 million PCs.
  • Our proven firewall technology protects your identity by keeping hackers away from your passwords, account numbers, and valuable data.
  • Our advanced privacy solutions stops Web sites from following you online and stops annoying pop-ups.
  • We build software that everyone can use. Novices can protect their computers immediately. Advanced users can personalize their privacy protection.
  • Zone Labs continues to win its share of industry awards. These are products you can trust!

Suggested Programs

Chat Blocker
Are your children spending too much time chatting? ChatBlocker is the award winning desktop parental control application for moderating and restricting chat conversations! With ChatBlocker, you can easily setup time slots in which you wish to allow chat conversations - and when you do not want to allow them.

Key Logger
Keylogger Pro is an advanced, low level stealth keystroke monitoring application that will secretly record and backup all keystrokes typed (both system keys and regular keys) on your PC. Keylogger Pro offers a wide array of features and options to ensure that it runs exactly to your liking

NET Observe
NETObserve 2.0 is a powerful, discrete remote web based surveillance and administration suite. It includes the ability to monitor Internet chat conversations, websites visited, windows, applications ran, clipboard activity, printed documents, and more.

Spy Buddy
SpyBuddy is the ultimate solution for monitoring spouses, children, co-workers, or anyone else! SpyBuddy allows you to monitor all areas of your PC, tracking every action down the last keystroke pressed. SpyBuddy has the ability to log all AOL/ICQ/MSN/AIM/Yahoo chat conversations, all websites visited, and more.

Parental Control Suite
The ultimate parental control bundle is available! Get the power of internet chat restricting, as well as the number one solution for monitoring your children, spouses, or co-workers...for a fraction of the cost! Includes, SpyBuddy, ChatBlocker, and WebMail Spy.

 


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