Sentry Parental Controls: Total Family Protection is more than the average parental control product, offering parents full control and monitoring of their child’s Internet and computer activity.
With Sentry Parental Controls: Total Family Protection parents can track every instant message (IM) conversation, website visited and application used on their child’s computer. Parents can also control the amount of time their child can use the computer and connect to the Internet. Parents can even control your child’s keyboard and mouse, transfer files, lock and even reboot the computer – from anywhere.
Sentry Total Family Protection is able to filter and block any website for inappropriate content. Sentry enables parents to select from a list of categories the type of content to block. From pornography to social networking sites, Sentry offers you full parental control.
When Sentry finds that a specific user has been behaving inappropriately Sentry will send the parent an email or text-message alerting them of the inappropriate activity. Dependent upon the settings Sentry can block the website from being seen, take a screenshot of the website, or take no action at all.
Finally a parental control software product that monitors both side’s of your child’s instant message conversations. With Sentry Parental Controls: Total Family Protection, Parents have full control of how Sentry should react when their child participates in an inappropriate chat conversation.
When inappropriate chat is encountered a parent can choose if they want Sentry to replace the negative word with asterisks, block the message from being seen, close the instant messenger window, or take no action. Sentry can even send you an email or text message alerting you of the specific user and computer that caused the violation.
Sentry offers parents full control of who their child may talk to by allowing them to block instant messenger buddies with a single click of a button.
Sentry brings TIVO-like recording to parental control software. Parents can define specific times of day they would like Sentry to record their child’s computer activity. Once a session has been recorded parents can stop, play, fast-forward, and even rewind their child’s activity all over the Internet!
Similar to software products such as GoToMyPC and PCAnywhere, Sentry allows parents to connect to their child’s computer from anywhere. Parents can instantly access files, programs, email, and networking from any web browser or java enabled wireless device in real time. Never before has a parental control software product been so robust.
Sentry’s provides parents with two separate timers, one for when their child may use the computer and the other for when they may connect to the Internet.