[PCWorld]

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[Cosmo]

That only works as long as your kid doesn't run your virus scan or spyware scan. If they do, it gets removed.

[mtdabrow]

Leave it to AOL users to buy this product. Seriously, pressing alt crnt del constitues as VERY computer savy. Um, riiight? If the program doesn't show up, its pretty much mimicking spyware behavior. It will either get zapped by your anti-spyware program, or theres a serious flaw with your anti-spy ware program. The mere mention of "myspace" about say it all about this article. Look, I understand the ligitimate issues of child protection; but if you get this product, chances are you can relate to the woman in the AOL commercial--- you are in the same market demographic and probabbly are an AOL user.

[PersianDark]

Buy them WoW or some shooter games, they will never have time to be in dangerous chat rooms!

[TheNameless]

rolls eyesIf people want to bypass this software, they will, probably with ease as well. And disabling Ctrl. Alt. Del is .0001% of your problem, there are a billion third-party process managers/registry cleaners/etc. that will render this "keylogger" 100% ineffective.

[Sin91]

You want your kid to hate you. I would be mad at my parents if they put spyware on my comp. Any antivirus program should identify this as spyware and be able to delete it. How would you like to have your parents looking over your shoulder every time you are on the computer.

[Hudzon]

Well I use it to protect my daughter, yes sometimes you have to spy to protect as at certain ages I.E 10 - 13 year old girls, they are very vanuable to internet predators and no mater how much we preach they are just not forward thinking enough to pick up on a lot of the subelties that they use some have been known to take months building a profile of a victim, so just saying never give your name phone or address is not enough anymore.

And most good AV / Anti-spyware programs have exception rules to allow the program to be installed and ran, and if the PC is used by children, then it should not be allowed to install activex componets needed to run online scans and or install or removed software.
And yes this program does install in complete stealth mode, not showing in task manger and it's protected

[AuroraDizon]

I think keyloggers for most children especially under a certain age should be a priority for parents because of the dangers of the internet.

[piyushsingh]

Why use the extreme thing - "keyloggers", when there are preventive measures present. A keylogger wont prevent a child not going to visit places they shouldnt go to. A decent parental control software will do better. Put restrictions over time , restrictions over web content. That will be a preventive measure.

[AuroraDizon]

Of course you need to have things to protect them from going to certain websites, just like having a spyware scanner its not all you need for protection. Imo a keylogger allows a child to actually have more freedom. Instead of banning them from instant messengers, and other chat rooms parents can instead monitor what is going on, because the "real" threat isn't some pornographic sites its the predators that act on their own.

[piyushsingh]

I agree with the intention of parents using keyloggers. But wont that be a bit too much on the kids. keyloggers gets everything , the passwords everything.Well , there is no problem in the parents seeing childs passwords but some may object depending on their mindset.

The IM threat is obviously more than the adult websites factor. And there is nothing apart from keyloggers to now the exact thing in IM talks. But it can be the last option.

See it this way, a child will agree to have a parental control software installed but wont accept on the keylogger thing. If the IM time is restricted , then it will help a bit, but not fully. Well, it all depends on the parents where they want to draw a line and how hard that line has to be.

[AuroraDizon]

Its all generally the discretion of the parents. If a parent said the kids not even allowed on a computer if they don't agree or disable it, that's also their choice.

[Hudzon]

My daughter has been told it's installed she has not been shown how it works or what I can get from it, I let her know I do not read everything she writes and she has the right to say what she wants to her friends without fear of getting in trouble unless it breaks a law or predefined family rules, it has been used very nicely to address topics that would of otherwised been put off or not even thought of. I do use it as a protection tool and it's not used to stop her from being a kid.