Icy Mountain
Sachem
Current situation:
My home PC is located in a public area of the house. We have a 56K dial-up connection that is password protected. If our kids need to use the connection we log them in and monitor activity. The kids each have a networked PC in their room but the hardware/software is limited: they have P3's with MS office, can print on a central printer, and store files on the server. These workstations cannot connect to the Internet.
I am in the process of turning my children, boys ages 11 and 14, loose onto the internet. However, I would no more do that, without precautions, than I would take them whitewater rafting without wearing life vests.
Proposed situation:
Their workstations will still be for just work with no connection.
Considering upgrading the bandwidth on the connection.
Connection password will be turned over to the boys.
Main PC has been set up with 3 XP accounts: Me (Admin), Mom (Limited), and Boys (Limited), all password protected.
What I am looking for is some software that will log time/user/url in the background and be available for review and deletion only by the Admin account. I have found several that look promising (e.g. Internet Spy at www.spyarsenal.com) but they all set off all kinds of SPYWARE bells and whistles in Norton, Ad Aware, Spybot, etc. The ones that do not set off alarms just display files like index.dat that are easily deleted (I do it myself regularly with CrapCleaner to get rid of the bloat). These are verrrry savvy, straight A kids. I need overwhelming force.
Before the civil libertarians get all wound up, this situation has been discussed at great length with the boys. They are perfectly willing to have every URL they visit recorded and reviewed, if they can just log on and go to YourFavoriteVideoGameCheatPlanet.com whenever they please. For me it is the Reagan Doctrine: Trust but Verify.
Any suggestions?
-Icy
My home PC is located in a public area of the house. We have a 56K dial-up connection that is password protected. If our kids need to use the connection we log them in and monitor activity. The kids each have a networked PC in their room but the hardware/software is limited: they have P3's with MS office, can print on a central printer, and store files on the server. These workstations cannot connect to the Internet.
I am in the process of turning my children, boys ages 11 and 14, loose onto the internet. However, I would no more do that, without precautions, than I would take them whitewater rafting without wearing life vests.
Proposed situation:
Their workstations will still be for just work with no connection.
Considering upgrading the bandwidth on the connection.
Connection password will be turned over to the boys.
Main PC has been set up with 3 XP accounts: Me (Admin), Mom (Limited), and Boys (Limited), all password protected.
What I am looking for is some software that will log time/user/url in the background and be available for review and deletion only by the Admin account. I have found several that look promising (e.g. Internet Spy at www.spyarsenal.com) but they all set off all kinds of SPYWARE bells and whistles in Norton, Ad Aware, Spybot, etc. The ones that do not set off alarms just display files like index.dat that are easily deleted (I do it myself regularly with CrapCleaner to get rid of the bloat). These are verrrry savvy, straight A kids. I need overwhelming force.
Before the civil libertarians get all wound up, this situation has been discussed at great length with the boys. They are perfectly willing to have every URL they visit recorded and reviewed, if they can just log on and go to YourFavoriteVideoGameCheatPlanet.com whenever they please. For me it is the Reagan Doctrine: Trust but Verify.
Any suggestions?
-Icy