Monitoring Your Kids Online with Gecko
Monitor
As your kids get to a certain age, the
question arises as to how to introduce them to the internet. The age
that you start to do this will, of course, vary from parent to parent
and there is never one right answer. But there is software that can
make the introduction a lot easier.
For kids of a very young age,
parental control software maybe the route to go down; you can block
all websites apart from very child friendly ones. But at some point,
you'll want to trust your kids enough to let them loose on the web.
At this point, Computer Monitoring
Software is something that can help put your mind at ease. Programs
like Gecko Monitor are perfect for monitoring a number of situations.
Most commonly monitoring employees on office computers and the kids
and/or spouse on the home computer, both of which are simple and easy
to set up and use.
Gecko Monitor is perfect for monitoring
your kids online activities. Once downloaded and installed (a process
which takes a matter of minutes) Gecko Monitor runs silently in the
background, in complete stealth mode so that no-one knows it's
running. To access the software, you type in a secret key combination
and a user defined password, both of which only you know. This brings
the software out of stealth mode so you can see what's been going on
while you've been away.
Gecko Monitor monitors a number of
activities and each feature has it's own tab running across the top
of the window. The first thing to do when opening the software is to
choose the date you wish to review the logs for. Here's exactly what
Gecko Monitor logs:
- All applications used, along with the time and date of use.
- All websites visited, along with the time and date of the visit.
- All keystrokes entered, and the application or website they were entered into.
- All files & documents opened, saved, moved or deleted, along with the time and date.
- All documents printed, along with the time and date.
- Anything copied to the clipboard (anything copied and pasted)
- Takes screenshots of everything that's happened.
- Timeline feature, shows you an easy to read snapshot of what's been happening.
All of this is reported in an easy to
read manner, and can even be emailed to you, so you can check what's
been happening while your out of the house.
If you want to find out
more, head to the Gecko Monitor website (http://www.GeckoMonitor.com)
where you can download a free trial.
* Thank you to Lewis for writing this guest post *
Disclosure: From time to time, McKinney Mommas is compensated a small monetary amount for informational posts such as this.
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