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Re: Advice needed for monitoring child's internet usage

Andy,

Bear with me, since it's been ages since I've needed to do this.

What I have done on the past is use my firewall/router to log access, and then using a log viewer(plenty of free ones out there) that also does a reverse lookup (convert IP address to names) to give me the names of the sites visited.

I have also set up rules within my firewall/router to limit access to the internet to only specific days and times. You can also block out specific IP addresses as well.

I have used in the past a product call FULL CONTROL which limited all kinds of things based on the user. I don't know if that product is still on the market or not.

Ideally what you may need to do is what some companies do. They use a proxy server which has built-in blocked sites list. Those lists are also customizable as well. CyberPatrol is one such that I know of. I also believe that Cyberpatrol can be used without a proxy server and installed locally on a machine, but don't quote me on that.

I hope this helps. Feel free to PM me if you like more technical specifics.
Michael
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