Posted: 31st Jan, 2006 By: MarkJ
UK ISP Namesco has today announced the arrival of its parental control and Internet security product
SurfGuard., which will cost £4.99 per month and can be trialled free for 14 days:
SurfGuard provides a secure surfing environment for up to 3 household PCs for only £4.99 per month including VAT. This excellent software is aimed at parents who wish to protect their children from the potential dangers lurking on the Internet and provides a very simple point-and-click interface allowing easy configuration even for those with little or no technical knowledge.
SurfGuard provides in-built protection from the core threats, with options to block adult content, gambling, shopping, gaming and hate sites all of which are updated from a huge central database. Where SurfGuard really comes into its own is the facility to monitor MSN chat conversations and create a Buddy list, allowing parents to specify a list of authorised chat friends for their children.
Virus Scanning and Spam filtering are included and will protect all 3 of the chosen PCs, with no additional cost, which makes the product an attractive proposition on its own, considering the retail cost of 3 individually licensed desktop virus scanning products. The virus scanning is kept up to date from the latest threats, absolutely free of charge.
In addition to blocking external threats, SurfGuard also allows parents to set privileges allowing Internet access only at certain times, generate reports on usage and sites visited, giving them complete peace of mind that they can control and monitor all web activity that takes place under their roof.
A 14 day free trial is available from http://www.names.co.uk/surfguard