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[pauls]

I have being looking for some software. Iam going to buy my 15 year old daughter a laptop for her birthday. She has special needs so she is 15 by age but not in her mind we belive she is about 8 -10. We have aloud her in the past to use the pc but we find she end up on sites that she really shouldnt be on and also end up getting a lot of viruses. I have at the moment put the links into our favorites and she onlys goes onto them. Iam buying her a laptop because we are trying to make her feel a bit more grown up. Anyway what Iam after it at all possible is a web browser that I can lock it down to only the sites that we have checked out. Anybody got any ideas please.

cheers Paul

[ozzycat]

i think you can set up parental controls on your anti virus software im not 100% sure but sombody will come along whos an expert

[dbug]

Try the freebie Microsoft one - Microsoft's free parental controls software, Windows Live Family Safety, is part of its Windows Live Essentials package. Users can block specific sites and applications as well as controlling how long kids can use a computer.

Can be dowloaded off Microsoft site - search for Live Essentials

HTH

[JasonH]

We tried the one you get free from Virgin Media - it was awful. It let through lots of dodgy stuff and made the PC really laggy and slow.

We were recommended Blue Coat K9 by the local police at a school talk. It is excellent, doesn't slow down the PC at all and nicely blocks anything unsuitable.

http://www1.k9webprotection.com/

[pauls]

Cheer jason i will give it a go