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 Real-time scanning: Windows Defender protects your system in real time
so that if spyware infections occur, they can be detected and remediated.
Read about all these types of scans in Chapter 14.
Parental Controls
Like it or not, computing is becoming a fundamental part of our lives. Accesses
to computer labs in elementary schools (and beyond) enable our children to
become computer savvy at an early age. Students use computers to do research
and homework, take quizzes, and communicate with their peers. Many would
find it difficult to get through high school, even from purely an academic
perspective, without access to an Internet-connected computer. Our children
have a plethora of information available to them by a simple click of a mouse.
Even though the Internet is a great resource, it does present certain risks. Now
more than ever, our children have access to information and situations that
may place them, or the data on our computers, in harm’s way. Such situations
have created a strong market for software products that monitor computer
activity and block access to certain Web content, file downloads, and more.
Windows Vista offers the Parental Controls security feature (as shown in
Figure 1-3) that provides monitoring and restriction capabilities to assist
you in addressing this problem. Parental Controls provides the following
capabilities:
Figure 1-2:
The
Windows
Defender
interface.
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