SurfWatch

Age Range: 5-Adult
Platforms: Windows and Mac
Medium: CD-ROM
Cost: $39.95

Company: Surfwatch Software
Phone: 1-800-458-6600
Email: sales@surfwatch.com

Description:

The Internet is a gateway to a world of information­and to an ever-increasing number of sites containing explicit sex, violence, gambling, and drugs. While you can't always protect children from the world around them, you can gain a degree of control over how they're introduced to these topics by using SurfWatch to limit their exposure to them via the Internet.

SurfWatch employs an experienced team of Web surfers and advanced spidering technologies to constantly comb the Web for the latest sites to include in the filters. This is combined with context-based pattern matching that blocks searches and thousands of additional sites, newsgroups, and chat channels containing objectionable material.

Features Include

• Simple installation. Install and run SurfWatch in five minutes ­ even if you're a computer novice.
• Powerful filtering. Block 16 topics across the four core categories of sexually explicit material, violence and hate speech, gambling, and illicit drugs and alcohol.
• Easy customization. "Fine tune" Internet access by customizing your SurfWatch filtering and creating custom filters of your own preferences.
• Daily filter updates. Update your filters daily with the click of a button.
• SearchWatch. Restrict searching for objectionable material in all search engines.
• ChatBlock. Block access to Web-based chat sites and all Internet Relay Chat servers.
• Yahooligans! Limit access to Yahoo!'s kid-appropriate online environment, plus custom sites you choose.

Educational Institution Use:

SurfWatch's NEW Educational Edition features Secure Learning(TM) categories, so you start your students off with access to only respected educational sites such as Yahooligans!, Children's Television Workshop, and several others. SurfWatch offers filtering solutions for both networks and individual computers.

For more info on educational use, click here

Reviews:

• Macworld rates SurfWatch #1 because it offers the "most convenient and foolproof blocking."
• Family PC gives SurfWatch a "Recommended" rating, adding that it "deserves accolades for its ease of use and ability to effectively block inappropriate Web and FTP sites, as well as chat areas and newsgroups."

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Howard J. Bender, Ph.D.
President
The Education Process Improvement Center, Inc.
P.O. Box 186
Riverdale, Maryland 20738
hjbender@epicent.com