bar on internet access PART2

[Keith Antoine]

Susan Macchia wrote:

> Hi Skippy :)
> 
> I have had this same issue with my own kids under Windoze.  I have used
> CyberPatrol (there is also NetNanny), to control not only content, but access
> times and what apps they can run.  This does cost some $$, though, but may be
> worth it (I thought that it was).  
> 
> In order to have these tools work effectively, the Dad should have his own
> password protected login.  Then another for his son.  He can configure
> CyberPatrol so that the Dad is allowed access all the time and his son is
> limited (in many ways).
> 
> He can keep his machine on all the time and keep himself logged in under XP. 
> He must set up a password protected screensaver for himself, and/or can "Switch
> User" when he is done using the machine.  The son will have to log-in as
> himself to use the machine and Cyberpatrol will control whether he can surf and
> what apps he can run.

Hi Sue and others who answered.

I put that part 2 in as I obviously did not give enough info. First up 
Dad does not wear the pants Mum and the family do, he is at the bottom 
of the heap and can be a fool. The son is the last of the offspring at 
home and 17. He has enough knowledge to circumnavigate normal passwords 
but Dad does not logout when he leaves the machine.

I have been looking after his machines one upstairs for family, one 
downstairs for Dad (pro photographer), which is a grunt machine. Hence 
son would rather use dad's machine, and does: it then gets clogged with 
S**t after he has been where he should not be. Then comes the inevitable 
call to get machine working again in PhotoshopCS2 (slllloooowwww).

I am tired of doing this and also angry at him not being able to 
safeguard the machine. Its alright to have high level passwords on the 
login, and he has, but if you walk away and leave it logged in !!! and 
he does.

So I was looking at something that might shutoff access to the net 
(cable 512) via browser security. I am clutching at straws. However I 
realise that if he does logout then the sone might have enough savvy to 
get around that.

Many thanks for the replies evenso.


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