KidGuard

KidGuard is an intuitive and effective piece of software that was developed to offer you the means of providing a safe online environment for your children by ensuring they do not come into contact with the potentially dangerous sides of the Internet.

During the installation process, you will be required to input the ‘Admin’ password, which will then be used to grant you access to its main window and configuration panel, but it can later be changed.

Once the setup is complete, prompts you to input your password, then enables you to begin customizing the permitted and restricted websites, depending on your needs.

For starters, KidGuard lets you enable the ‘Smart Filter’, then adjust the protection level, ranging between ‘Low’ and ‘High’. Afterward, you can input the ‘Block Keywords’, specifically the terms which, if found on a website, will automatically forbid your children’s access to it.

From the ‘Web Restriction’ section, you can create a ‘Blacklist’ and a ‘Whitelist’ of websites, the former being the ones to which you block access, while the latter you allow your kids to browse through.

In the ‘Chat Restriction’, ‘Net Restriction’ or ‘Game Restriction’ tabs of KidGuard, you can completely forbid chatting, network access or game playing from taking place on the computer, or you can limit their duration to a specific number of hours and minutes. Optionally, a ‘Screen Capture’ component can grab snapshots of your child’s desktop at regular intervals.

Moreover, the utility helps you ensure your children benefit from the proper ‘Eye Protection’, creating working sessions and pauses of a preferred length, in order to make sure they do not spend too much time in front of the PC, in one stretch.

In summary, KidGuard is a useful and practical application that you can resort to in order to maintain a higher degree of safety for your children whenever they spend time online, by preventing their access to possibly harmful websites.