However, Idothinkitwouldbeusefuliftheonlinewebsiteloggedallmonitoringrulechangessothattheycouldbeviewedonline, justtomakesurethattheruleswerenotbeingchangedinappropriatelytoavoidmonitoring.
Unfortunately, I have the Safety Minder installed at my sister's, as she needed to monitor her grandchildrens' use of the internet after finding one had been on inappropriate websites. And my sister is 120K down the road, so I cannot get the info directly.
Her systems are XP (Home and Professional, with Service Pack 3). The client will not be the latest - I installed it in July, and it was then I gained the impression that it was the client updating (changes in website categories that the children were permitted to access) that caused the spurious messages; but as I said, it was only an impression.
I will be back at my sister's in 3 weeks time, so I will have another look at it then to see if I can glean any info on the triggering of the spurious messages. If I find anything, I will repost at that time.
Re providing admin rights to the children, yep, probably not a good thing. But as the children are the sole users most of the time, it allows them to pull down all updates to XP and other installed software without problems, which is the reason we went that way.
Re the suggestion of providing logs of changes to rules, my suggestion would be 4 columns - a) date/time of change, the child/avatar for which the rule changed, c) the rule that was turned on or off, and d) whether that rule was turned ON or OFF.
For the suggestion of providing logs for changes of rules, the actions of changing rules should only be done by parents, not by a child. Would you please tell us the reason why we need to have the logs for changes to rules.
The reason for the suggestion of logging the changes to internet rules was as an extra safeguard to check to ensure that a child had not "cracked" the norton online login and managed to change the rules applying to themselves without the parents' knowledge. This shouldn't happen, but some people write these things down (passwords, etc) on scraps of paper, which the kids could then find. (Makes me sound like a very untrusting person, doesn't it - the original internet fascist!).
Alternatively, maybe an option to send email notification whenever a rule change occurred.
However, Idothinkitwouldbeusefuliftheonlinewebsiteloggedallmonitoringrulechangessothattheycouldbeviewedonline, justtomakesurethattheruleswerenotbeingchangedinappropriatelytoavoidmonitoring.