Public beta testing of a service intended for monitoring and limiting the activity of minor Internet users has been opened

The new Norton Online Family service from Symantec, the testing of which has begun the other day, allows parents to block children's access to unwanted websites type of content or based on "black lists", limit the stay of young users on the Internet and track their actions in real time.

To work with Norton Online Family, you need to register an account, and then install the Norton Safety Minder application for each computer to which children have access. Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows are supported.

The system, according to the comprehensive compartment , is able to determine what time the children go to the profiles of social networks, and how they are presented in them: if the child, for example, overperses his age, parents will immediately be sent about this by e -mail.

Messages built in Norton Online Family allow parents and their children to communicate with each other. The new service is also capable of tracking who children talk through Internet pikes (Google/Jabber, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, Aol and Skype) messages are supported.

You can also distinguish a function prohibiting children to send personal information, developed reports of reporting and the ability to work with several user profiles.