ChildWebGuardian Pro5.15

ChildWebGuardian Pro is a filtering application designed specifically for helping you create a secure and safe environment where children can browse on the Internet using Internet Explorer. It comes with a bunch of blocking options and IE usage restriction mode.

Prior configuration settings

When you run the utility for the first time, you are welcomed by a wizard that offers step-by-step assistance throughout the entire configuration process.ChildWebGuardian Pro gives you the possibility to set up a master password in order to prevent other users from making changes to the program’s functionality and uninstalling it. In addition, you can add your email address so you can recover the password in case you forget it.What’s more, you can choose between three different profiles (each one comes with its default settings), namely Home, Office or School computer.It is recommended to have a personal account for every person who uses the computer so you can apply the settings individually. By default, all computer users are in the restricted profile. Last but not least, you should restart the PC at the end of the configuration wizard in order to make sure all settings have been applied accurately.

Clean feature lineup

ChildWebGuardian Pro offers a well-organized suite of features that enables you to easily configure program settings, set up various filters, view neighboring computers, as well as check out the log file.

Filter data based on forbidden words

The utility helps you block Internet content that includes several forbidden words. The bad words are organized with the aid of different categories (e.g. Drugs, Gambling, Terrorism), and you can enable or disable them, as well as create a custom list with forbidden words.In addition, you may allow a user-defined number of forbidden words and look for inappropriate data in websites, incoming email messages and incoming ICQ messages.

Web filter

ChildWebGuardian Pro helps you schedule the allowed time for web surfing, block forbidden websites based on blacklists, as well as select the downloads that you want to block, namely executables, archives, torrents, images, Flash videos, audio and video files. Furthermore, you may create a whitelist of websites that are safe to navigate on and block ads and social network sites.

ICQ, email and program filter

For an extra layer of protection, you may limit the usage of ICQ and email by time and allow sending/receiving of ICQ and email messages only for/from several numbers. The program filter can be used in order to allow custom software apps or games to run on specific days of the week.

Remote connections and logs

You can view the computers in your local network with ChildWebGuardian Pro, save data to a log file, store the log for a custom number of days, select the events that you want to include in the log (e.g. visited websites, blocked websites with forbidden words, blocked downloads), and email the logs at a custom time interval.

General configuration settings

ChildWebGuardian Pro helps you run the blocking mode at Windows startup, allow remote connections to program, disable changes to system time so other users cannot bypass the Internet usage schedule, specify the administrator profile and restricted users, and change the password.You can make the utility update the list of the sites that are blocked every day, week or month, take the program’s settings from another computer, and check out detailed computer usage statistics.

Bottom line

To sum things up, ChildWebGuardian Pro comes with a powerful suite of filters for helping you block webpage contents and restrict the use of Internet Explorer by time and days.