I have two computers on my home network. One of which is my child's. I want to monitor it... Help

Question

I have a link-sys wireless router. I'm hardwired and my daughter's desktop is on wireless to the router. I want to monitor her from my desktop rather than going into her room constantly and doing check's. I realize that some programs will email me updates, but I'd like to just have a live feed if I want . The only program I have heard of doing this is Gen-X's NetBoss, though they aren't around anymore and I haven't found a working link. Anybody have something? Keep in mind that while I'm not A cert. and I'm not a super geek, I can do the basics like mac filtering... I know her IP addy and I can access and configure the router with ease.

Answer 1

Good for you for doing your job as a parent. Some people must not have children of their own, or they would be less likely to respond in such an irresponsible manner. Age 14 is where children become most at risk for vipers and predators on the Internet. Children at this age are so trusting and vulnerable. Please note that even going into her room periotically is not enough monitoring. I had my system in my room and my young children had to use it in there. I had little knowledge at that time of systems, and back with XP all the accounts created when you initially turned on the system and created those first accounts were all administrator accounts. So, unbeknown to me my 14 year old daughter had downloaded and installed Yahoo! Messenger which she would quickly minimize as I walked over to look at what she was doing. I only found out by accident, and she was already talking with strange men. She had like 20 male "contacts", and her 3 best friends who also had access to a system. She didn't know these guys and I also found out after the fact she was going into chat rooms.

This was after we had had *many* conversations about Internet safety, and she knew that she would lose her privileges if she did anything remotely unsafe. We had even sat down and drawn up a contract which outlined what she could and could not do on the Internet, which we both signed. She had always been a good girl, got good grades in class, had after school activities such as dance and cheer leading, etc.

Don't listen to anyone who says you shouldn't watch out for your children. Their brains are not fully developed until they are well past eighteen. Kids this age never believe anything bad will ever happen to them. They know bad things do happen to kids, but they feel invincible, and haven't a clue about the real world and how many predators exist. I did a check and we had 15 registered s*x offenders in a 10 mile radius of our home!

Now, this was back before there was any parental control software. Here is a search results page on parental control software. Also, take a look at the features in your router and security suite. Panda Security has built in parental controls at no extra cost and the subscription covers up to 3 systems. Your router probably has the ability to control her logon hours. Each IP address can be setup with separate or no logon limitations. Just go into your router configuration pages and find out what is available. I found that very helpful with my grandchildren.

http://www.google.com/search?q=parental+...

Check out some of these links and find what you can. There are usually reviews you can read, and often you can download the manual and check out the features.

Again, good for you for being a concerned and loving parent! Far too many parents make the mistake that at 14 and above they should be "let loose". Let loose for what? Children earn their freedoms, they are not just owned to them. Once they can show they are trustworthy, then and only then does the chains loosen up.

Good luck and have a nice evening. By the way, your daughter is lucky to have you.

Answer 2

And parents wonder why their kids run off into back allys have s*x and smoke crack. But hey

Here you go

http://www.sniperspy.com/

There are plenty of these spy programmes out there. I do not recommend or take responsibility for anything this software does.

I just found it and provided the information requested for informational purposes

Answer 3

I recommend Vector Network's PC-duo 32.

http://www.vector-networks.com/solutions...

You can see and control whatever your child is doing, execute commands--everything remotely.

Answer 4

first off if ur daughter is 14 or older then dont worry about what she is looking at ..... just have a talk about not giving personal info and let her go ...... and if she is younger than 14 than ask the school they use software like that all the time to make sure the kids arent looking up p**n and stuff ....... good luck

Answer 5

You reported that you could not find an active link to NetBoss;

Try this one;

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Netwo...