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You might want to read this thread. I might add that if you use Firefox intead of Internet Explorer you can add a great plugin that I put on my cousins pc for his girls. Here are the links.
http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&thread.id=7653
http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5881
Although I usually get a little tired of Diesel's soapboxing for Firefox, I will give him points for this one. You can turn off your son't access to internet explorer and use only Firefox, which does seem to have better options for restricting his behavior on the internet.
As a parent in the same situation myself, I will add that the only really effective control is to limit our children's access to when they are in the same room we are. It may be a pita, but there are few things more dangerous for children (in terms of accessibility) than access to the internet. For every voice that rises up and says "it didn't do me any harm," there are probably a thousand for whom it did do harm.
And I am not speaking in the abstract. I've been a teacher and I've seen the results of such access.
Thanks for the info D. I use firefox but didn’t know about the extension. As soon as i finish this i’ll load it and let you know how it goes. I agree M there is no substitute for supervision but sometimes i have to leave the room and all it takes for any problem is a few seconds. Thanks again, I hope Symantec can tweak the parental control a little to bring it up to other products level. Its ok now but not as solid as the rest of the program.
OK i tried Glubble and i wiil say it is great especially for young children. It was a little to restrictive for me since i have ages 10 to young teens to be concerned with. It asks for permission for sites like dictionary.reference.com which is common for homework. I would have to white list lots of stuff unless there is a profiler which i didn’t see. Anyhow thanks for this initial idea and for younger kid i concur-glubble works nicely.