Parental Control
Nowadays, an ever-increasing number of children and teenagers have access to computers and web resources, which may entail a range of problems.
With Parental Control, you can address the following issues that parents typically face when their children go online:
- Access to websites that could waste time (chat rooms, games) or money (online stores, auctions, casinos, and gambling websites)
- Access to websites for an adult audience, for example, websites displaying pornography, drug abuse, or explicit violence
- Downloading of files infected with malware
- Excessive time spent using the computer and the Internet, which may result in health problems
- Contact with strangers who may pretend to be children or teenagers to obtain personal data from the user, such as real name, physical address, or time of day when nobody is home
Parental Control helps you control the activity of individual users on your computer and on the Internet, reducing security risks and making a user's online experience a safe one.
Parental Control provides flexibility to enable and set up restrictions for each user independently, for example, based on the user's age: you might want to control activity of a minor but not of an adult with an administrator account. You can enable or disable Parental Control from the Parental Control window.
Enable/disable Parental Control for a user account
- Open the main application window.
- Click the
button.The Parental Control window opens.
- In the left pane of the window, select the user account for which you want to enable/disable Parental Control.
- In the right pane of the window, click the Enable Parental Control/Disable Parental Control button.
Depending on what you select, the Parental Control indicator for the selected user account becomes green or red. In the right pane of the Parental Control window, you can view the user activity categories that Kaspersky Internet Security controls. By default, control of user activity is disabled for all categories.
Note: You must have administrator rights on your Mac to enable and configure Parental Control.
Kaspersky Internet Security controls the following categories of user activity on the computer and on the Internet: Web Control, Time Control, Personal Data, and Social Networks. By default, control of user activity is disabled for all categories.
Enable/disable control of user activity by category
- Open the main application window.
- Click the
button.
The Parental Control window opens.
- In the left pane of the window, select a user account for which you want to enable Parental Control.
- In the right pane of the window, click the Enable Parental Control button.
- In the left pane of the window, select a Parental Control category that you want to enable or disable.
- In the upper pane of the window, click the Enable/Disable button.
Web Control
Web Control helps you monitor websites that the user visits and files that the user downloads.
You can block access to certain categories of websites based on their content and create a list of exclusions, if necessary. The user can access websites in the list of exclusions even if they belong to a blocked website category.
Block access to specific website categories
- Open the main application window.
- Click the
button.
The Parental Control window opens.
- In the left pane of the window, select a user account for which you want to restrict access to websites.
- In the right pane of the window, click the Enable Parental Control button.
- In the left pane of the window, select the Web Control category.
- In the upper pane of the window, click the Enable button.
- Select the Web Control checkbox and the checkboxes next to the names of the categories of websites to which you want to block access.
Add/remove a website to/from the list of exclusions
- Open the main application window.
- Click the
button.
The Parental Control window opens.
- In the left pane of the window, select a user account for which you want to configure access to websites.
- In the right pane of the window, click the Enable Parental Control button.
- In the left pane of the window, select the Web Control category.
- In the upper pane of the window, click the Enable button.
- In the right pane of the window, select the Web Control checkbox and click the Add Web Addresses button.
The Add Web Addresses window opens.
- In the Add Web Addresses window, do one of the following:
- To create a list of websites for which you want to block access, select the Always block these websites checkbox.
- To create a list of websites for which you want to always allow access (even if these websites belong to blocked categories), select the Never block these websites checkbox.
- Add/remove a website to/from the list of exclusions:
- To add a website to the list of exclusions:
- Click the
button. - Enter the address of a website.
- To remove a website from the list of exclusions:
- Select the address of a website that you want to remove.
- Click the
button.
- Click the Close button to finish editing the list of exclusions.
You can also enable safe search mode for Google™ and Bing® search engines to prevent websites in unwanted categories (such as pornography, alcohol, violence, or other content not appropriate for minors) from appearing in search results.
Enable safe search
- Open the main application window.
- Click the
button.
The Parental Control window opens.
- In the left pane of the window, select a user account for which you want to enable safe search mode.
- In the right pane of the window, click the Enable Parental Control button.
- In the left pane of the window, select the Web Control category.
- In the upper pane of the window, click the Enable button.
- In the right pane of the window, select the Safe search checkbox.
You can select categories of files that the user is not allowed to download from the Internet.
Restrict file downloads from the Internet
- Open the main application window.
- Click the
button.
The Parental Control window opens.
- In the left pane of the window, select a user account for which you want to restrict file downloads from the Internet.
- In the right pane of the window, click the Enable Parental Control button.
- In the left pane of the window, select the Web Control category.
- In the upper pane of the window, click the Enable button.
- Select the Restrict file downloads checkbox and the checkboxes for types of files that you don't want the user to download.
Time Control
You can limit Internet use time for a user in the following ways:
- By specifying days of week and time of day when the user can go online
- By setting the maximum Internet use time allowed per day
Limit Internet use time
- Open the main application window.
- Click the
button.
The Parental Control window opens.
- In the left pane of the window, select a user account for which you want to limit Internet use.
- In the right pane of the window, click the Enable Parental Control button.
- In the left pane of the window, select the Time Control category.
- In the upper pane of the window, click the Enable button.
- Set Internet use time limits as appropriate.
Personal Data
You can prohibit sharing of personal data, such as bank card details, home address, and phone number, so that users cannot send it through social networks or submit it to websites. Attempts to send this personal data are blocked, and information about blocked attempts is saved in a report.
Create a list of personal data that can't be shared online
- Open the main application window.
- Click the
button.
The Parental Control window opens.
- In the left pane of the window, select a user account for which you want to block sending of personal data.
- In the right pane of the window, click the Enable Parental Control button.
- In the left pane of the window, select the Personal Data category.
- In the upper pane of the window, click the Enable button.
- Create a list of personal data that can't be shared online:
- To add a data record to the list:
- Click the
button.
An empty row is added to the list and highlighted in blue.
- In the Description column, double-click the new row and enter a description of the personal data record.
- In the Data column, double-click the new row and enter new personal data that you want to block.
- To delete a data record from the list:
- In the list of personal data, select a data record that you no longer want to block.
- Click the
button.
The data record is deleted from the list of personal data that can't be shared online.
Social Networks
Control of messaging on social networks (such as Facebook and Twitter) involves controlling the contacts with whom messaging is allowed, blocking messaging with contacts with whom messaging is prohibited, and monitoring message content. You can create a list of allowed and blocked contacts. If messaging with a contact is prohibited, all messages sent to or received from that contact are blocked.
Restrict communication via social networks
- Open the main application window.
- Click the
button.
The Parental Control window opens.
- In the left pane of the window, select a user account for which you want to restrict messaging over social networks.
- In the right pane of the window, click the Enable Parental Control button.
- In the left pane of the window, select the Social Networks category.
- In the upper pane of the window, click the Enable button.
- Create and configure a list of allowed and blocked contacts:
Information about blocked messages and attempts to share personal data is saved in a report. In the report, you can also view messaging logs for each contact.
You can view reports, separately for each category of activity, for each user for whom Parental Control has been enabled and configured.
View a user activity report
- Open the main application window.
- Click the
button.
The Parental Control window opens.
- In the left pane of the window, select a user account.
- In the right pane of the window, on the Reports tab, select a category of user activity and click the Details button.
The right pane of the window displays a report on the user activity in the selected category.