Kaspersky Internet Security 2017

Using Parental Control

Parental Control allows monitoring actions performed by users on the local computer and online. You can use Parental Control to restrict access to Internet resources and applications, as well as view reports on users' activities.

More and more children and teenagers are obtaining access to computers and web resources. The use of computers and the Internet presents a number of challenges and threats for children:

• Loss of time and / or money when visiting chat rooms, gaming resources, online stores, and auctions
• Access to websites targeted at an adult audience, such as those featuring pornography, extremism, firearms, drug abuse, and explicit violence
• Downloading of files infected with malware
• Health damage inflicted by excessive computer use
• Contacts with strangers who may pretend to be peers to obtain information from underage users, such as real name, physical address, or time of day when nobody is home

Parental Control allows you to reduce the risks posed by computer and Internet use. To do this, the following functions are available:

• Limiting the time for computer and Internet use
• Creating lists of allowed and blocked games and applications, as well as temporarily restricting use of allowed applications
• Creating lists of allowed and blocked websites and selectively blocking categories of websites with inappropriate content
• Enabling safe search mode on search engines (links to websites with questionable content are not displayed in search results)
• Restricting file downloads from the Internet
• Creating lists of contacts that are allowed or blocked for communication via social networks
• Viewing the text of messaging via social networks
• Blocking sending of certain personal data
• Searching for specified keywords in message logs

You can configure features of Parental Control for each user account on a computer individually. You can also view Parental Control reports on the activities of monitored users.