User`s guide

19. Parental Control

BitDefender Parental Control enables you to control the access to the Internet and

to specific applications for each user holding a user account on the system.

You can configure Parental Control to block:

● inappropriate web pages.

● Internet access, for specific periods of time (such as when it's time for lessons).

● web pages, e-mail messages and instant messages if they contain specific

keywords.

● applications like games, chat, filesharing programs or others.

● instant messages sent by IM contacts other than those allowed.

Important

Only users with administrative rights on the system (system administrators) can

access and configure Parental Control. To make sure that only you can change the

Parental Control settings for any user, you can protect them with a password. You

will be prompted to configure the password when you enable the Parental Control

for a specific user.

Once you have configured Parental Control, you can easily find out what your children

are doing on the computer.

Even when you are not at home, you can still check on your children's activities and

change the Parental Control settings using Remote Parental Control.

19.1. Configuring Parental Control

Before you configure Parental Control, create separate Windows user accounts for

your children to use. This will allow you to know exactly what each of them is doing

on the computer. You should create limited (standard) user accounts so that they

cannot change the Parental Control settings. For more information, please refer to

“How Do I Create Windows User Accounts?” (p. 203).

If your children can access an administrator account on their computer, you must

configure a password to protect the Parental Control settings. For more information,

please refer to “Protecting Parental Control Settings” (p. 101).

To configure Parental Control:

1. Make sure you are logged on to the computer with an administrator account.

Only users with administrative rights on the system (system administrators) can

access and configure Parental Control.

2. Open BitDefender.

Parental Control

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