Webroot Child Safe | 
 enlarge | From: Webroot Software
Category: Software
List Price: $29.99
Buy Used: $14.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 14653
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 1.3
Model: 20202
UPC: 667208202027
EAN: 0667208202027
ASIN: B000070MQW
Release Date: October 10, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The complete monitoring tool that helps parents watch over their children's PC and Internet use. Set limits and monitor use to protect your children and give yourself peace of mind. The Crimes Against Children Research Center reports that approximately 1 in 5 children, have been victimized by online sexual solicitation. According to the same report, 1 in 17 children was threatened or harassed in some way while online.
Amazon.com Review
Webroot's Child Safe lets you discreetly monitor sites visited, files viewed, and keystrokes entered. Child Safe even takes periodic screen shots of your system, letting you see exactly what your child was looking at. It will also block sites, although only the URLs you specify. If an attempt is made to visit a site on the blocked list, the browser simply shuts itself down. Child Safe runs completely in the background, and is only called up when the designated key combination is pressed. Even then, a password must be entered before any changes can be made to the program. The interface is simple enough to manipulate. The Web Activity Log tracks sites visited and e-mails sent. The Keystroke Log tracks all of the characters entered on the keyboard, letting you keep tabs on anything said in an online chat room. And the Screenshot Log displays all the captures taken by Child Safe. The default is once every 15 minutes, but you can set Child Safe to snap them as often as every minute. Child Safe can also be set to automatically send these activity logs to any e-mail address. So, if you're at work and the kids are at home, you can be kept up-to-date on their Web activity. Child Safe can also notify users that they are being monitored, popping up a window when Internet activity is detected, for example. After all, just letting your kids know that you're aware of their online activity will most likely be enough motivation to curtail any unsavory visitations. --J. Curtis
Amazon.com Product Description
Child Safe is a computer monitoring utility that runs in the background, completely hidden, enabling parents to watch as much or as little of their children's computer and Internet activity as they wish. Child Safe contains a blocking function that allows parents to block specific Web sites with a single mouse click. The software also allows parents to capture screen shots of what is being viewed and store them in a graphic file. Parents can even set the software to take screen shots at predetermined intervals and then have them sent to an e-mail account for supervision away from home. Child Safe can be configured to monitor all keystrokes, programs used, and sites visited on the Web, and has the ability to display a warning message when a computer is turned on, a screen saver stops, or when the Internet is being accessed. Before being able to proceed, the user must click the Agree button, ensuring they are aware of the policies regarding use of the computer.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Useless April 22, 2007
FrequentShopper (Burlingame, CA USA)
When installed, this program will not allow programs like Real Arcade to run, because they do something to the windows registry each time they run. That makes Child Safe useless to us, as our kids use Real Arcade a lot, and it is pretty safe (at least, we choose to trust it).
I asked tech support if there was a work-around, and they didn't reply, except for an automatic acknowledgment of receipt.
Two weeks later, I asked if they could reply please, and they didn't reply at all.
So, the program really is useless. I uninstalled the whole thing and would have forgotten about it, but then I saw this listing on Amazon and had to comment.
Child Safe 4.0 March 4, 2007
jsday12 (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My wife is happy beause this program lets us limit our childrens computer time to a certain amount per child per day or per week. It can also be used to limit the parents computer time to certain times.
Things that I don't like about it are that it seems to reset what the power button does from hibernating to powering off. This tends to lock up my computer running windows XP, as it does a logoff before shutting down. The other night, I was installing a microsoft service pack that takes 40 minutes to install on my PC using 100% CPU. The program was set-up to give 5 minutes warning before time was up, and a 1 minute warning before it boots you off. Well, I tried to hibernate to save my work, but it booted me off anyway (perhaps because of the high CPU utilization?), 30 minutes wasted. It seemed to reset my user passwords one time, but I just went into the child safe account and reset them to what I wanted. Another problem is to change user account settings, the user can't be logged in at the time (I use multi-account login on XP Home all the time).
The filtering isn't perfect. I suspect no filtering product is. I have no way to compare to other products.
It does let you restrict your browsing to a certain set of websites, and you can add a website to a list to allow you to view it even if it sets off one of the filtering criteria. You can customize the filtering categories per user, as well as the types chat / instant messaging each account can use, as well as which exact programs each user can run, as well as whether a regular user can install new programs. The options are very flexible and powerful.
Now if they would just fix the little problems that drive me crazy sometimes!
 As advertised. February 8, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This software works exactly as advertized, and has proved to be a vital part of being sensitive to the needs of my teen son. The installation was flawless, completely undetectable, has settings that let you regulate the amount of information you want to gather on the activities on your computer, and doesn't have any detectable impact on the performance of the computer. I would highly recommend use of this product.
Child Safe works but not on AOL November 21, 2002
I found it relatively simple to install and begin using. Definitely reveals the keystrokes, screen shots etc. at whatever settings you wish. And it is stealth without the password. However, not until I began using it, did I discover it is NOT compatable with AOL users or email. This means if you want the results to be emailed to you and you're an AOL member it won't forward the info. There was no indication of this on Amazon.com or the packaging. Not until I contacted the manufacturer. So, even though it works, it is useless for me.
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