17 Solutions in Test: What is good parental control software? – N-tv.de NEWS

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 Sunday 09 August 2015

 
 
 

 
 A detailed test shows that protect programs for Windows and Mac OS X children effectively from being accidentally or intentionally to visit websites with content harmful to minors. Especially important:. The right filter
 

 
 

Even very young children now use the Internet regularly, the elderly know how to use computers and browsers often better than their parents. Even if the children do not intentionally look for it, often simply click on a supposedly harmless link to land on pages with dingy or dangerous content. Parents who wish to leave their children unattended still surf the web, should use programs that protect the young as well as possible. The independent institute AV-Test has been extensively tested 17 solutions. Some are specialists, other programs are integrated into antivirus suites or are already in the operating system available. The software has been adjusted in the test for use by the age of seven.

AV-Test examined, among other things, whether the browser will be put into a safe search mode, whether individual programs may be blocked or released and have what control options parents , The most important thing is that the software block the right websites. Many products offer the so-called whitelisting. In this technique, only the sides are approved that have been explicitly added to a list. The access to all other sites will be denied. However, since the manufacturers are coming from different countries, their lists are regionally and linguistically influenced. Therefore, the testers have this function in test not used. The products had to solely by their own techniques, logic, sentence and word analysis classify the sites and possibly sort out.

Microsoft and Apple do not block everything

Overall, the protection needed provide software with 12,000 Bad and 13,000 innocent websites to prove that they can distinguish between good and evil. A wholly-owned hit rate is not expected. Because the filters are too sharp, too many dangerous content are blocked. This could mean that the children will get frustrated and try to circumvent the protection measures.

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The built into Windows and Mac OSX Solutions Microsoft Family Safety and Parental Control block in the category “sex, nudity, pornography” is still relatively good, but are very unreliable in all other areas. Protection against gambling, illegal file sharing networks or dating sites they hardly offer. Good cut the two free solutions from but when it came to allow access to harmless sites. Strong overall performance offered in the test above all Norton Security, Internet Security and Quickheal Trend Micro Internet Security 2015 Kaspersky Internet Security 2015 also delivered consistently good results filters. The child protection software Telekom convinced the test also, but it runs only under Windows 7 and Windows 8. For computer with Windows 8.1 it is not suitable.

A clear winner is not determined AV-Test. Ultimately, would decide whether to put more on control and closures or rather to monitor and control the parents, it says in conclusion. In order to facilitate users to select, AV-Test has put to the test report tables with the results of all the individual disciplines.

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