Training the Next Generation of IT Engineers
Parental Control Bar
From: WRAAC.org
Price: Free, Outdated, and NOT recommended
To help out a friend with four kids, I tried installing the Parental Control Bar from WRAAC. The tool is SO bad that I won’t provide the link to it here–for several reasons.
FULL ARTICLE: “Parental Control Bar: NOT Recommended”
Continue readingI just set up Windows 7 on my home workstation tonight and I’m relatively impressed with the result, which for Microsoft, is saying something. I’m planning a full review later. Stay Tuned!
Have a problem that occurs when you log on? Wonder if that Group Policy settings are being properly applied? Got a logon script that keeps crashing? Turn on debug logging for Windows logon events to find out what is going on.
Debug Windows Logon Events: USERENV.LOG
K9 Web Protection
From: BlueCoat K9 Web Protection
(http://www1.k9webprotection.com/getk9/download-software.php)
Price: Free, up-to-date, Highly Recommended
Supported OS: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista; Mac OS X 10.4.7 and later
BlueCoat manufactures security devices providing Web Content Filtering for corporate enterprises. They also make a parental control application called K9 Web Protection which is free for home users. It is an excellent balance of filtering capability and ease of use and has a lot of options to help parents set limits on web browsing and block unsafe or inappropriate sites. What you get is pretty impressive, given that it is free.