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 |  | Enhance Your Parental Control Options Take a look at software programs that can provide unique features to supplement Windows Windows® 7 Parental Controls or assist families using other Windows operating systems.

 |  |  | Net NannyTM 5.5 Parental Controls
The Basics: Like Windows Vista Parental Controls, Net Nanny blocks access to online content that you find inappropriate for your kids' age groups — and it assesses content using 29 categories.
Top Features:
- Dynamic contextual analysis
means that it blocks sites based on what's on them at a given time. For instance, a news site may be blocked while it features a particularly graphic article but allowed when that article is no longer available.
- Email notifications
can be sent when users are blocked from visiting objectionable sites.
- Usability
Net Nanny is widely regarded as an easy-to-use program for non-experts.
| Great for: Parents seeking dynamic content controls and immediate notifications. |
 |  |  | IMSafer
The Basics: IMSafer can help stop the development of inappropriate relationships online by monitoring online chats and social networking in real time.
Top Features:
- The IMSafer language analysis engine
understands English, IM-speak, slang and even leet. Regular language engine updates help protect against new predatory or bullying tactics.
| Great for: Parents with chat-friendly kids that don't want to look through every IM conversation. |
 |  |  | Child Safe®
The Basics: Child Safe monitors application usage, with scheduling software to manage specific applications.
Top Features:
- Robust controls
limit Web site access based on any combination of over 60 content categories, specific site addresses or keywords.
- Temporary passwords
allow single-use time extensions so that kids aren't locked out of the Web when doing time-sensitive schoolwork or projects.
| Great for: Parents with very specific content guidelines, and parents of kids with specific curricula. |
 |  |  | Windows LiveTM Family Safety
The Basics: Windows Live Family Safety is a free download which provides a set of controls to help parents manage which Web sites their children can visit and who they can communicate with when they’re using Windows Live Spaces, Hotmail, and Messenger*.
Top Features:
- Web filters permit parents to limit searches, and monitor and block or allow websites.
- Individual log-ins for each child means you can customize filter settings, and you get different reports and filters for each child.
- Activity reports generated for parents, so that they can monitor their kids’ activity.
- Remote management of parental controls. Parents can change settings or manage filters anywhere parents are online—on the PC, the Web, or mobile phone.
- Integration of Windows 7 Parental Controls
| Great for: Web filtering, remote management, and activity monitoring, plus contact management for households that use Windows Live (Hotmail, Messenger, Spaces)*.
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