You decide how your kids experience the Internet. Family Safety helps you filter information based on each child’s age to help protect them from stuff you don’t want them to see. You can also limit searches, block or allow certain Web sites, and monitor where they are going online.*
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Content filtering
Create a safer browsing experience for your kids by filtering Web sites you don’t want them to visit. Create different controls for each child according to their age and interests. Get advice on safer surfing from experts at the American Academy of Pediatrics and other trusted sources.
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Contact management
Family Safety's new built-in contact approval helps you know who your kids are talking to on IM, e-mail, or their blogs. You can approve or reject each new contact for their Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail, and Spaces.
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Safer searching, safer learning
Family Safety works with Live Search to help block inappropriate search results, and with MSN Encarta to help deliver information that's age-appropriate.
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Change permissions by request
If your child wants to see a site blocked by Family Safety, they can ask you for permission to view it. The request shows up in the program, making it easy for you to see. Then you can review the site and decide to let them see it, or keep blocking it.
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Online activity reports
Activity reports give you detailed information about the Web sites your children visit or attempt to visit, and whether a site was allowed or blocked, or whether a warning was issued to your child.
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Account access from most computers
Even if you're at work or out of town, you can change your kids' accounts and settings—and view online activity reports—from almost any Web-connected computer
* Family Safety software must be installed on each computer your child uses. If software is not installed, the safety settings cannot be enforced.