Responsible parents know they can’t personally monitor their children’s
Internet use 24 hours a day, so they rely on parental control software to stop
their kids from viewing inappropriate or dangerous things.
Verity recently made
TopTenReviews.com’s
list is one of the top parental control software packages available.
TopTenReviews called it an “effective tool for making your children safer
online.” Here’s why.
The Ability to
Block or Approve Specific Sites
Parents who are worried about their children accessing specific websites or
applications can use Verity to ensure that they don’t do so.
Verity’s filters
allow parents to blacklist or whitelist particular sites and applications. In
order to block your child’s access to a particular application, you just need
to input the filename you want to be blocked, including the .exe extension. Parents
could use this to block the use of Web browsers altogether if a child is
grounded from the Internet as well as blocking specific applications that could
be troublesome.
The Ability to
Monitor and Control Usage
If you’re concerned about your children spending too much time on the
Internet, you’ll appreciate Verity’s usage monitoring software. You can set it
so that children are only able to access the Internet at certain times of the day.
For example, if you don’t want your kids online while you aren’t home, you can
set Verity to block access to the Internet until 1800 hours (6 p.m.) when you
will be home.
In addition to controlling usage, you can also monitor it.
Verity allows you
to check your kids’ Internet usage from any Internet-connected device. Thus, if
you’re worried about your kids spending all afternoon online, you can check
from your phone, tablet, or work computer to see how much Internet has been used
and what sites your kids have been on. If you aren’t happy with what you see,
you can block Internet access right then and there through the remote
application. Future versions of the software are planned to include even more
monitoring capabilities, including keystroke-tracking functionality.
Greater Control
Over What Your Kids See
Some software packages pre-set filters by age so that your kindergartener
automatically is prohibited from accessing certain sites that your high school
senior can see.
Verity leaves it up to you to decide which sites or
applications to block, giving you greater control over what your kids do or
don’t access online than software packages that use a one-size-fits-all
package.
Verity offers parents complete control over when and what their children
access online. Parents who are concerned about their kids’ Internet use will
find this software package very helpful for both monitoring and control, which
is why
TopTenReviews
recommends it so highly.