Since Mac users can run Windows on a Mac with today's Intel-based Macs, they are vulnerable to a whole new range of security threats. When Windows is run in Apple’s Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop or VMWare’s Fusion, it requires  Windows-specific protection. Intego's Dual Protection product line provides security for both Mac OS X and Windows, ensuring that Mac users running Windows will have total protection for both operating systems.

Intego ContentBarrier X5 DP makes the Internet safe for your children on Mac OS X and on your Windows installation.

ContentBarrier X5

ContentBarrier X5 is a parental control program for the Macintosh, providing functions for parents and businesses. It is designed to filter and block certain Internet content according to the settings you choose. ContentBarrier X5 blocks adult web sites, sites with subjects not fit for children, and blocks chats when predatory language is used. It also blocks certain protocols, or types of Internet communication, that you may not want your children to use, such as peer-to-peer and other file sharing protocols, online games, streaming audio and video, FTP, SSH and more.

ContentBarrier X5 works with multiple users, and interfaces seamlessly with the Mac OS X user accounts on your computer. If you have several children, you can set different limitations corresponding to their age or maturity. You can choose whether they have access to newsgroups, e-mail, or whether they can download files. You can set the program to let them only use the Internet at certain times, and on certain days. You can choose to block or allow specific web sites, allow users only to use selected applications, and block access to specific types of content, such as streaming media or peer-to-peer file transfers. The program can even send you e-mail, automatically, when certain events occur. And you can view logs and manage some of ContentBarrier X5’s settings over the Internet, using any web browser.

ContentBarrier X5 sets up a protective wall around your computer. Its pre-defined filters let you choose what you don’t want your children to see, and you can create your own custom filters as well. Inappropriate web sites are blocked, shielding your children from content they are too young for. Additional filters block content by program type, such as chats, newsgroups and more.

Parental Filter for Windows

Parental Filter is the total solution for parental control that ensures safe and appropriate use of the Internet in your family. With Parental Filter, each user of the family computer has a unique profile, adapted for their age and level of maturity. It is you, as the administrator, who determines the themes, Web site categories and computer use which are appropriate for your children. That way you can let them surf, knowing that the content of the pages they visit conforms to your criteria.

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-           Single user license

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Parental Filter is the total solution for parental control that ensures safe and appropriate use of the Internet in your family.

The Internet is a fabulous means of communication and source of information for young and old, however :

• For children, it is easy to visit Web sites "just for fun" which are completely inappropriate for their age level;
• They are also frequently the target of ill-intentioned people who are going to exploit their natural curiosity on forums or social networking sites of all types. This type of incident may encourage them to communicate personal information or to be confronted with inappropriate content.
• Even with a cautious approach, it is sometimes difficult to avoid intrusive ads and automatic redirects that take you to Web sites that are completely inappropriate and sometimes violent or shocking.

The "criminal liability" of parents can be brought into question in the context of communication of illegal content via peer-to-peer networks, for example.

With Parental Filter, each user of the family computer has a unique profile, adapted for their age and level of maturity. It is you, as the administrator, who determines the themes, Web site categories and computer use which are appropriate for your children. That way you can let them surf, knowing that the content of the pages they visit conforms to your criteria.

A rock-solid filtering engine

Parental Filter is based on four complementary technologies that let you filter Web sites visited by your children, emails and attachments, instant messengers, etc.

Advanced filtering technologies :

1- Filter email and messaging contacts :

• Define email contacts from whom your children can receive messages.

Select the MSN messaging contacts with whom your children can chat.

Thus, they are protected against chats with "strangers".

2- Filter by list of Internet sites :

• White list: you define the exact list of Internet sites authorized for viewing
• Black list: includes the sites you wish to exclude, plus a list of sites which include content inappropriate for children: lists used by the Department of Education which are regularly updated, sites approved by the ICRA, etc.

3- Filter by theme (hatred, violence, adult...) and semantic analysis with the possibility of adding your own themes and expanding personal dictionaries: 14 themes are offered which allow you to refine the sensitivity of the filter according to your user profiles, since the notion of violence varies based on a child's age.

4- Filter using ACR (Active Content Recognition) technology: a dynamic filter which does an analysis using artificial intelligence techniques in real time on the contents of a Web page, including images. When the Web page is received by the computer, it is analyzed and classified based on items which are detected on it. After analyzing the criteria, the system determines whether it should block or authorize access to the pages in question.

5- Filter email and Internet pages viewed by your children based on language and country of origin

Complementary filters and settings

Filtering by sequence :

Parental Filter also integrates a validation engine for authorized and unauthorized words and sequences when entered via the keyboard in order, for example, to prevent your children from giving out contact information (address, telephone number, credit card number, etc.) during a chat or in an email. This technology lets you safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information as well as that of your children.

Filtering of search engines and instant messengers :

Search engines sometimes return unfiltered results.
Instant messengers let children interact with complete strangers, which represents a potential danger for them and for your software environment

In order to prevent the communication of contact and confidential information, you can block the majority of engines and instant messengers :

- Search engines: Google, Yahoo, Lycos, etc.
- Instant messengers: MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ
- Filtering of MSN Messenger instant messages

Filtering of communications protocols: Web sites, file transfers and email :

Incoming Web pages, FTP and email are overrun with interactive content such as images, video and even music which is not always harmless. You have the possibility of blocking some of these protocols if you wish to limit their sphere of activity :

- HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) which lets you view Web pages
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for sending files
- SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) which lets you send email
- NNTP for blocking access to chat rooms

Filtering of data types coming into and going out of the computer :

In order to guarantee the relevance of pages viewed by your children and to protect you against possible sources of viruses contained in unwanted files, you have at your disposal numerous settings to block file extensions and animations :

- A selection of prohibited extensions for Web pages, file transfers and email :

Archives (compressed files), images (jpg, bmp, gif...), video (mpeg, avi, mov...), audio (wav, MP3, midi...), text, executables (programs), PDF (Universal PDF or Acrobat files for example).

- Authorization of Flash, Script, Applet and ActiveX animations :

Block interactive content that can display animations or install applets likely to be violent or inappropriate.

Planner for PC and Internet usage

Parental Filter lets you define access rights :

Internet timetables: you can authorize Internet usage only during certain times in order to keep your children from spending too much time on the Internet. Similarly, you can establish time limitations by selecting the total time that your child can spend on the Internet each week, each month etc.

Access to the computer: in the same way, you can set a fixed window of time during which your children can or cannot use the computer and you can allocate to them a weekly or monthly amount of use.

Locking of programs and folders: you can prevent your children from opening certain folders in order to protect your work and personal information. You can also prevent access to certain settings tools (Control Panel) in order to guarantee the proper functioning of your system

Reports and monitoring

Parental Filter lets you verify the use of your computer in your absence; you have at your disposal numerous tools and activity reports

Statistics and logging: check at a glance the sites that were visited by users as well as the programs used.

The screen function: lets you record screen captures and video at regular intervals to validate the compliance of Internet sites that users visited.

The keyboard function: allows you to display the keystrokes of selected users to visualize the searches done in search engines or the messages that were sent, for example.

Remote monitoring: lets you monitor the activity on the computer on which you use Parental Filter from a remote computer on a local network or via the Internet.

Authorizations: if one of your children wishes to access locked content, he/she can request it by clicking on the appropriate button; you will then have the option of unblocking the applications or Web sites in question.