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Kidswatch Internet Security Parental Control V5

KidsWatch is a family product that can meet the challenges facing parents today in how to protect children ...
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Added on 12/11/2008
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6 Reviews

steve811
12/27/2008

Kidswatch Internet Security Parental Control V5 1

I downloaded the free trial, tried to configure it, and then uninstalled it. The software removed my access to control panel. Now although I'm the parent/admin I cannot access control panel. I do not recommend this software.

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RestaurantRona
10/06/2008

Kidswatch Internet Security Parental Control V5 1

The product was impossible to set up and ridiculously cumbersome to use. I returned it.

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nonamespecifie d
08/30/2008

Kidswatch Internet Security Parental Control V5 3

good idea and easy to install and configure, but i could never get the remote admin feature to work, and too many normal websites like google and yahoo got blocked, and the limit on total hours feature assumes you login logout each time pc is used, it cannot detect actual pc activity, so if you leave the pc on, but dont use it, you come back to find out you are locked out. I have reverted to using only the Vista builtin parental controls which cover most of the bases.

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S.O'rourke
08/17/2008

Kidswatch Internet Security Parental Control V5 4

The kids can argue with you all day long about more computer time, but when the computer shuts down automatically after a pre-determined amount of time, it's final! I love this program. It's not quite as intuitive as I had hoped, but then again I'm no computer genius . . .

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TheFox
08/11/2008

Kidswatch Internet Security Parental Control V5 3

This product probably works great, but I've not actually gotten it installed/set-up completely to thoroughly try it out. I want to use this on my Vista machine, and Vista is a bit foreign to me to begin with. I procrastinated in installing it after it arrived, and then when I did I can't say the installation screens were too clear on what exacty I was doing. Shortly after the install we started having problems getting to the internet. The computer would just chug and chug and chug. I'm not sure if this product was the reason, but I ended up uninstalling to try and remedy the problem and haven't gotten around to re-installing.

I have two children ages 8 and 5. During the set-up I was prompted to set-up a password for each user. I'm not sure if I had to, but there weren't clear instructions on what the purpose of each field was, and whether it was required. Needless to say, the 5 year old was confused and required assistance each time he wanted to just use the computer to play a CD game. This became a bit frustrating for both of us.

I'm sure this product is great-- I was impressed by previous user's reviews. I've just not been successful in understanding how to properly set this program up.

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SteveS.Yang
07/21/2008

Kidswatch Internet Security Parental Control V5 5

I purchased this software based on reviews on Amazon and I was happy with the purchase. The software was easy to install and has clean user interface. Configuration was easy and I especially like the feature that automatically set computer and internet time quota once you select the user's age group.

My daughter started to hate it at the beginning but that was exactly what the software supposed to do - gave a wartning and cut off access when time was up!

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