Obtaining anti virus software and setting parental controls

geek84

Hi Folks

Recently I bought my kids a lap top. I now need to put on some anti virus software and parent controls.

Can you please suggest some good anti virus software, together with details of where it can be obtained from, and how I would go about putting on parental controls?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

DCFC79

geek84 wrote: »

Hi Folks

Recently I bought my kids a lap top. I now need to put on some anti virus software and parent controls.

Can you please suggest some good anti virus software, together with details of where it can be obtained from, and how I would go about putting on parental controls?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

well i use avast from here, avast is free and easy to use, it also updates itself

regarding parental controls i dotn think avast covers this but there are options available that cover this aspect

Browntoa

if windows 7 then you have parental controls

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/parental-controls.aspx

Browntoa

Windows live family safety as well

http://explore.live.com/windows-live-family-safety?os=winxp

DatabaseError

new lappy have windows 7 on it? assuming "yes" is the answer..

create a secure password for the administrator account (you) and [/b]user accounts for the kids
load ms security essentials
load ms family safety on each user (kid) profile

tie the family safety to your hotmail account (make one if necessary) and set the sliders, making manual adjustments as necessary.

You then have a secure machine with the ability to see every site they attempt to visit, and to authorise or not those sites either locally (at the lappy) or remotely (at any other computer)