I'm having the same problem as many before. I am a new user, installed according to instructions. WinXP, both FireFox and IE8 browsers, all the latest SPs and patches. I created profiles for my 3 children. I marked myself as Admin. I checked all the categories for each child, even added youtube.com to the blocked list for one of them. Verified that the Safety Minder is On switch is set correctly for each child, also got the "<name> is protected!" green text in the profile. Verified that the web activity supervision setting is to be blocked. I have removed and reinstalled Safety Minder at least 3 times now, rebooted, the whole nine yards.
I log in as one of the children and go straight to youtube.com without any blocking. Works for both IE8 and FireFox. I verified the plug-ins are present for each (v1.2.2.2). The only thing that shows up in the actiivity log for this child is that they logged out. Nothing else.
I used to have BSecure installed prior to this install. That product was removed prior to install. I also have Symantec Anti-Virus installed (v 10.1.0.401). I also have the Windows Firewall active.
Can you help?