Parental control provides parents with automated tools to help protect their children and set restrictions for devices and services. Parental control blocks web pages that may contain potentially offensive material to prevent children and young adults from accessing pages with inappropriate or harmful content.
Parental control includes customizable user account permissions, web content filtering, and activity logging. The following article includes a basic overview of the Parental control feature, as well as key features that will help you maximize the effectiveness of the Parental control feature.
Open the main program window of your ESET Windows home product.
Click Setup → Internet protection.
Click the toggle next to Parental control to enable, pause, or disable Parental control.
Click the arrow next to Parental control to access configuration settings.
The Parental control feature consists of a quick enable/disable feature alongside various settings for active Windows User Accounts.
Below is a list of additional Parental control features and configurations.
From the Parental Control module, parents can control and monitor internet access by configuring an age for Windows User Accounts. Set up a Parental control role for a user account.
Parents can restrict access by adding or removing items from the list of web categories and blocking access to certain web pages for each user account. Categories are defined as groups of web pages that contain similar subject matter, for example, adult content. Block or allow websites or categories using Parental control.
Set up a password to protect Parental control settings.
Open the main program window of your ESET Windows home product.
Click Tools → Log files and select Parental Control from the drop-down menu to view a detailed log of Parental control activity (blocked pages, the account the page was blocked for, reason, etc.).