Parental Control

Nowadays, an ever-increasing number of children and teenagers have access to computers and web resources. This can create a number of problems.

With Parental Control, you can address the following issues that parents typically face when their children go online:

Parental Control helps you control individual users’ activity on your computer and the Internet, reducing security risks and making the online experience safe.

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 the activity of a minor but not that 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

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 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

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

Add/remove a website to/from the list of exclusions

You can also enable safe search mode for the Google and BingĀ® 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 mode

You can select categories of files that the user is not allowed to download from the Internet.

Restrict file downloads from the Internet

Time Control

You can limit the time a user spends on the Internet in the following ways:

Limit time spent Internet

Personal Data

You can prohibit sharing of personal data, such as bank card details, home address, and phone number, so users cannot send this information over 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

Social Networks

Control of messaging on social networks (such as Facebook) 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

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

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