Good parental control software

[Reallytired]

I have just had the shock of my life as I found my six year old son attempting to register with a bullitin board. I feel that at the age of six he is too young to go on to bullitin boards or chat rooms. The bullitin board was

www.clubpenguin.com

I think it would be great for an older child, but my son is just too young at the moment.

What is also frightening is that my son has learnt how to use google.

Anyway I have been looking at various parental control software packages like netnanny. Which ones do you use. Do any of them have feature to automatically update lists of unsuitable websites.

[PuzzYuleLogs]

Bump

[Reallytired]

Anyone, help....

[MrVibrating]

I can't really recommend anything but here is what I do:

Main family PC has Vista, built in parental controls are fine. Separate users for everyone, 5-year old browser is set to 'named sites only' - mostly cbeebies and the brilliant Science Museum Launchpad. 14-year old girl is set to 'block adult content', although I might take this off as it does block some innocent sites and . She has her own laptop which is unrestricted, although all site visits are logged by the router and archived away by email: I have shown her how this works and how effective it is. She has been told what is allowed and what is not e.g. MSN is fine, dating sites and peer-to-peer copyright theft is not. I periodically check her machine and remove Limewire - I can tell when she has installed it because it steals all the wireless bandwidth .

The 10 year old has just got a PC in her room for homework, it is XP which is not as good for parental controls so I have just installed Microsoft Equipt: haven't set it up yet though . I will probably go for no adult content again as 'child safe' usually blocks far to much.