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CP24's
Talk TV with guest Andy Walker of Cyberwalker.com |
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date: 5 p.m. EDT August 24, 2001 Andy Walker talks with David Onley about protecting your kids on the Internet. Here's some of the things he talked about: SOFTWARE: Track down a software tool that will help you protect you children on-line. Include surf filters and time limiter software. Cybersitter, NetNanny and CyberPatrol are two popular services. See: http://www.getnetwise.org/tools/ Also there's Spectorsoft, snoop software to watch what is being done on a computer PROTECT YOUR COMPUTER: Install a an anti-virus protection product
such as Norton Anti-Virus or McAfee
Virus Scan. You'll also need a firewall, which protects your computer
from electronic interlopers on the Internet. See Norton Firewall (for
Mac SEACH ENGINES: Altavista has an family filter to prevent kids from seeing content you don't wnat them to. ETIQUETTE: Teach your kids to behave politely on-line as they would in the real world. COMPUTER TIME: Limit Internet time to when you are around. See http://www.getnetwise.org/tools/ for tools that allow this. COMPUTER LOCATION: Keep the computer in a public area in the house where you can monitor their online behavior. REPORT INCIDENTS: Most Web sites and services that run chat groups and interative features maintain customer service and anti-policy abuse response teams. Sending an desciption of an incident to abuse@companyname.com where "Company name.com" is the name of the web service that hosts accounts can help you get a resolution. In the event of a chat or email conflict get the chat nickname or email address of the offender if possible and include it in your comunication. CRIMES: If your child has been the victim of a crime that started on-line or occured on-line, contact your local police force. Try to keep a log of email addresses, chat names, Web sites and all other computer activity realted to the incident. Need more tips? There's a great Web site at http://www.getnetwise.org/
Questions?: E-mail Andy Walker at andy@cyberwalker.com
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Look Mac, I'm just gonna tell you once - you gotta backup your system with XDrive. 
