Symantec tests Norton Online Family
The company Symantec has announced the opening of a public beta version of the new service, which until the end of the Beta will be called Norton Online Family. It is designed to help parents protect children online and participate in their online lives.
To work with the Norton Online Family for PC or Mac, you must sign up and create a family account. Parents are downloaded and installed on your computer is a small application Norton Safety Minder. As a Web-service, Norton Online Family can monitor the Internet activity of each child in real time.
The public beta version of Norton Online Family has the following features:
A simple one-time setup: quickly create online account for the whole family. For each child, all the parameters relevant to the age, automatically, they can easily change the parents.
Ease of use and access: to supervise the activities of children or to change the child's profile, preferences, or the time at any time, anywhere and through any Internet access device.
Reports: All activities are recorded in chronological order, and showing only the Web-sites, which the child attends deliberately - excluding all unnecessary URL, such as advertising.
Defining intentions Children: viewing of key words and phrases used by children in the search and the places online where the search results.
Customizable notifications: Parents can customize the alerts by e-mail, to take urgent action, learning about their child exceeds a limit of time, they proscribed visit web sites, etc.
The exchange of messages in real time: built-in messaging allows a child to notify parents of their intentions, when he wants to visit a blocked Web-site.
Access to information is the social network: monitoring of children in social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, with the opportunity to see how the children are presented in the network, when and how often to visit her.
Transparency: the children can see «home rule», established by them along with their parents, know where the Norton Online Family is included, so that there is no «covert surveillance».
To work with the Norton Online Family for PC or Mac, you must sign up and create a family account. Parents are downloaded and installed on your computer is a small application Norton Safety Minder. As a Web-service, Norton Online Family can monitor the Internet activity of each child in real time.
The public beta version of Norton Online Family has the following features:
A simple one-time setup: quickly create online account for the whole family. For each child, all the parameters relevant to the age, automatically, they can easily change the parents.
Ease of use and access: to supervise the activities of children or to change the child's profile, preferences, or the time at any time, anywhere and through any Internet access device.
Reports: All activities are recorded in chronological order, and showing only the Web-sites, which the child attends deliberately - excluding all unnecessary URL, such as advertising.
Defining intentions Children: viewing of key words and phrases used by children in the search and the places online where the search results.
Customizable notifications: Parents can customize the alerts by e-mail, to take urgent action, learning about their child exceeds a limit of time, they proscribed visit web sites, etc.
The exchange of messages in real time: built-in messaging allows a child to notify parents of their intentions, when he wants to visit a blocked Web-site.
Access to information is the social network: monitoring of children in social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, with the opportunity to see how the children are presented in the network, when and how often to visit her.
Transparency: the children can see «home rule», established by them along with their parents, know where the Norton Online Family is included, so that there is no «covert surveillance».
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