Protect Your Children with Security Suite
You can find anything in the internet including violence, sex and drugs information. It is highly recommended parents should protect their own children with the help of Security Suite – such as Bitdefender Total Security. For taking Bitdefender as an example, it is because the Bitdefender brand with OEM products are protecting over 500 million devices worldwide.
In this example, we try to demonstrate the functions of a security suite with Child protection. You should find similar functions and features in many different brands like Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec, etc.
First of all (in Bitdefender Total Security), open the Parental Advisor / Parental Control functions in other antivirus to input the child’s profiles and prepare the custom settings.
Then, it will prompt for the owner’s account to avoid the “hacking” from your child.
Next, you are about to create a new custom profile. First of all, you should pick your chlid’s device(s) with Bitdefender product being installed.
Input your chlid’s name
It will show the related device for the settings.
Pick the user for the device.
| Important:
For the device, it is only allowed user account(s) with profile to access the corresponding device with Parental Control switching on. |
It is important to input the email account to receive alerts and for which alerts being active for the monitoring.
Moreover, you can create or modify your own customized control by adding hostname(s) into the blacklist or whitelist. In the example below, it shows “facebook.com” being blocked.
You can also monitor for whom your child is always talking to.
Further, you can check your chlid’s current location with the near real-time monitoring.
Meanwhile, you can set for when your child is able to access or use the computer and / or surfing the internet.
If your child is trying to log on outside the scheduled time, he / she should see the page below by asking the parents for special request or just switch it off as suggested.
Conclusion
Freedom is important for everyone. However, it is basic responsibility for parents to protect their children from abuse or day-long usage to affect their children’s health both physically and psychologically.