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Summary: Don't buy this!
Review: Be warned: this product does not work with current versions of Netscape; the Company claims to have a fix, but aren't advertising it and won't send the patch out unless you go through a 20 or so step set of instructions involving your "FTP client" in the DOS function of your computer to get a download. Not what I was hoping to do. In any case, on principle I wouldn't buy from this type of company.Although my software promised 30 days of free telephone technical support, they discontinued that without telling anyone in May. On IE, the software works ok, although it's clunky. I haven't decided whether even to continue to use it if I could get them to send me the patch. But again, there's got to be a better company and a better way.
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Summary: Kids learn quick
Review: Do you know why you don't have any problems with your young/teenage sons and daughters, its is because kids learn quick. you check the log, "Oh good, johnny hasn't being doing anything naughty" well the likelyhood is he has. It will only take a fews day for the more determined kid to work out how to shut it off. So stop fooling yourself and unwrap that cotton wool because protecting your kid is probably the worst thing you can do "for their own good" they have to learn themselves.
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Summary: good
Review: Does not allow hibernation in windows ME my computer stays on all the time and I have to manually place it into hibernation. Otherwise than that it works as advertised
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Summary: Cybersitter ain't great, but it's better than Net Nanny
Review: Hate to criticize a product like this, because they perform a valuable service, but I found this to have a number of deficiences in limited use. For example, it seems to require a password for everyone to logon to. There may have been a way to access sites w/out having to type each one in, but I couldn't figure it out. Under WinME, it caused a consistent page fault in Netscape 6.2 in some DLL that I'd never even heard of. The problem magically went away when I uninstalled Net Nanny. Have switched to Cybersitter and recommend it over Net Nanny. CyberSitter is unobtrusive; the only person asked for a password is the administrator when they double-click the program in the quick start tray. Screen layouts are intuitive, something lacking in so many products, and the product is stable with lots of configuration options. For example, you can eliminate porn but still get into hunting or other politically incorrect sites. Unfortunately Cybersitter has stupid problems of its own: 1) it "catches" way too many legitimate sites. In fact, I've had to put just about every site I use regularly in its 'acceptable sites' list. 2) You have no control over what phrases it is monitoring, and it monitors legitimate words and phrases. This is VERY annoying. 3) Its method of parsing causes a lot of DLL crashes in Netscape and IE. 4) Cybersitter also tends to time out on newsreaders because it is getting stuck when filtering porn spams. You cannot filter only certain newsgroups; it's all or nothing. Despite these maddening problems, Cybersitter is the best of a bad lot. It's better than nothing (I know that's hardly a glowing review, but it's true). Gentlemen: A program like this is a good way to keep yourself out of places you should not go; let your wife have the password.
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Summary: Net Nanny is too slow.
Review: I can't believe how much this product slowed the internet. It took me 8 minutes to open to my home page and I have a cable modem! I deactivated Net Nanny and tried it again, it was up and running in no time. As far as blocking web pages, it seems to do the job. However, it blocks some sites I don't want it to, like the customer support page for my Internet Provider. I even entered the web page in 'NN Can Go' and it still won't let me in.
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Summary: Not compatible with all ISP's
Review: I can't really comment on the product, because I never got to use it. Net Nanny 4.0 is not compatible with several popular ISP's (AOL, CompuServe and Road Runner). You would think that this information would be mentioned in obvious places, but it's not.
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Summary: I Can't Get It To Work
Review: I have tried and tried to get this product to operate correctly. No matter the setting I choose, it is either too strict or too permissive. I've tried using both a self created list and the one provided by Net Nanny. I cannot get either to work right. I am very frustrated by it and have been forced to uninstall it three times in order to access my homepage (ESPN.com). If you have more patience, maybe your result will be different, but I cannot recommend this product.
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Summary: Net Nanny 4.0
Review: I purchased Net Nanny from my local Staples Store; I installed it and discovered that it is totally useless. I t would immediately block out any page that I had set as my home page. The problems continued when I set the user settings. Being a parent of a pre-teen I wanted to control what my child was accessing but as an adult I didn't need to be protected from myself. The program would block me from accessing sites, even though my user profile was set to not block anything. Signing in under my child's name I was able to see nude pictures within seconds. But then it started shutting down my browser for violations, even on sites like Yahoo.com, despite the fact that I had the program set not to shut down the browser upon a violation, just to block and warn. The last straw came when the program started calling up my dial-up networking connection when I was working on non-net related programs, such as MS Word. Over and over the connect box would come up. I tried contacting customer support; their suggestions were juvenile and did not solve any, or even address several of the problems. The box clearly states "Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed", I have not found this to be true. Staples return policy would not allow them to return my money, just replace with the same item, which I did and tried with the same results. Net Nanny has ignored my repeated request for a refund by not replying to any of my e-mail requests sent to any of the address on their web site. I'm now using CyberPatrol, which seems to work as promised, as for Net Nanny, my advice is to steer clear and try Cyber Sitter or CyberPatrol.
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Summary: I'm sad
Review: I'm very sad that this did not work. I heard a lot of hype about it and wasted my money. I did a simple search on google of word 'sex' , it returned me saveral pages and 3 links of sponsors, all porn sites. Needles to say I was able to browse their sponsors. I even updated the NN database, but same thing happen. Other problem is that it is dragging the whole system down, I have cable ISP, it feels like I'm running modem connection. I did not like user name/password either. For big family that might be good, but for me I want it to work quitly in the back ground.
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Summary: I'm sad
Review: I'm very sad that this did not work. I heard a lot of hype about it and wasted my money. I did a simple search on google of word 'sex' , it returned me saveral pages and 3 links of sponsors, all porn sites. Needles to say I was able to browse their sponsors. I even updated the NN database, but same thing happen. Other problem is that it is dragging the whole system down, I have cable ISP, it feels like I'm running modem connection. I did not like user name/password either. For big family that might be good, but for me I want it to work quitly in the back ground.
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