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McAfee and the Battle Against Unsupervised Web Access for Kids

by Ava on June 23, 2010

In recent years, the use of mobile internet devices such as mobile internet laptops and other wireless gadgets able to access the internet through mobile internet access or mobile broadband has outnumbered the access of the internet by stationary desktop devices by almost double the statistics. And these devices include the Apple iPhone, iPod touch, and iPod. Consider these other astounding data. Almost three fourths of iPod touch users and almost five more than five percent of iPhone users are individuals under seventeen years of age. And the number of kids owning mobile internet-ready devices and using it outnumbers those who use desktop computers by twice the number.

A recent McAfee study entitled Secret Life of Teens show that almost all teens surf online outside the confines of their own homes away from the eyes of their parents and more than thirty percent of these kids do not divulge any information on the things that they browse on the internet. The worse part of these is that almost thirty percent get in contact with complete strangers online, a thing to be really concerned about if you are a parent or a guardian. These figures gives you a pretty picture as to how much opportunity kids have access to unsupervised, uncontrolled, and unmanaged internet access. And the overseeing of this internet usage should be done by the parents themselves. Now McAfee came up with the answer to kids who use Apple mobile internet devices.

Gaining control and knowledge of what their children access and who their kids communicate with will certainly provide them peace of mind knowing that their kids are safe. The software McAfee brags about is called the McAfee Family Protection. It offers advanced internet filtering for the iPhone, iPod, and the iPod. This software automatically blocks teen- unsuitable suits like pornography web pages and other inappropriate sites.

Control is what the McAfee Family Protection gives which includes providing usage hours, the websites browsed, and the time the internet was accessed. Parents can also choose what websites to be allowed viewing and what sites to be blocked. It even gives the option to totally disable internet browsing capability and the parents can use this as a demerit if they found out that their kid is violation home set browsing guidelines. The McAfee Family Protection software can also be enabled to automatically inform them when their kids go online and block internet browsing capability in certain hours of the day, especially when the kids are at school or right after school when they are supposed to doing their homework.

Of course parents would want their children to enjoy the wonders of the internet and modern technology by allowing them the use of these mobile internet devices to its full capacity but with control over things that they deem harmful and inappropriate for people at an early age and that is what McAfee provides. You can never be that vigilant with the way modern technology allows internet communication everywhere kids go, and the way to minimize the possible danger that the unsupervised usage of the Web may bring is through the use of the McAfee Family Protection.