Why do I need PCguard Parental Control?
- Screens out offensive material
- Blocks over 550 million links all managed by Virgin Media
- Allows you to control programs like Chat and Instant Messenger
- It's easy and flexible with over-rides
Using PCguard Parental Control
When your child surfs the Internet, you may want to restrict certain programs from connecting to the Internet. For example, you can restrict chat room and instant messaging programs such as MSN Messenger, and games. You can use this feature in conjunction with the Scheduler within PCguard for added flexibility. For example during homework hours, you might want to grant your child Internet privileges but to restrict access to chat rooms or instant messaging.
PCguard Parental Control is a content filtering service that blocks more than 550 million questionable websites. This listing of sites is constantly being updated to ensure that it captures all the inappropriate sites which are continuously being added to the Internet.
This service is not a substitute for parental supervision, but helps parents to control the type of content that is available to their child on the Internet. If your child attempts to enter a website that is deemed to have inappropriate content, a message appears saying that the site is restricted. Sites that are blocked while surfing the Internet can be viewed in the log. When you no longer need the list of blocked sites, you can clear the log.
Visit Virgin Media Security Centre advice for Parents
What options are there?
Once you enable Parental Control you have a few options on how you would like PCguard Parental Control to work. You can:
- Use the database to restrict or allow sites or categories of sites (e.g. gambling) for your child
- Add sites to 'Other websites that I want to block' because they may not be in the database
- Add sites to the websites I want to 'allow' list because they are blocked by the database
- Restrict your child to websites available in the 'websites I want to allow' area
- Scheduler to control when a child can or cannot access the Internet
- Restrict programs or categories of programs (e.g. chat programs) from connecting to the Internet
Setting your password
To ensure that the settings you defined cannot be changed, you must use your password. To set your password or to learn more about this feature, see 'Setting your Password' in the PCguard help manual.
Help using Virgin Media PCguard Parental Control
- Parental Control technical support
In PCguard, there is an excellent help library that explains how to configure Virgin Media PCguard to the settings you prefer. It is recommended that you use this manual to guide you through any changes you want to make.
To access the Parental Control information in the help manual, click on 'Tell Me More' on the main Parental Control screen in Virgin Media PCguard, as shown below:
