Norton Online Family

In June, 2010 Symantec announced expansion of language support in free service of parent control Norton Online Family. The Norton Online Family service became the first global and free service which offers parents a full range of tools not only for blocking of the undesirable websites – tools of new service Norton help parents to participate in life of children and to support permanent dialog about safe behavior on the Internet.

Except the tools directly blocking the undesirable contents, the Norton Online Family service gives to parents an opportunity to learn that their children look for on the Internet in what social networks they participate. The alerting system in real time allows to notify parents on attempt of children to visit the blocked website instantly.

Because Norton Online Family is online service, parents can control children even being far from them – enough to log in via any available browser. Parents can also change control parameters far off. The new version of service started together with support of modern languages offers more user-friendly interface, more flexible determination of "quiet time" and additional reference materials.

To increase quality of parent control taking into account local specifics, the division of Norton entered five more foreign participants into the board of trustees – from Canada, Brazil, France, Australia and Great Britain.

The Norton Online Family service is available on the Windows platform (XP Home/Professional, with a service pack not below SP2; Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Windows Vista SP1 in the 32nd and 64-bit editions) and also on the Mac OS X platform of the version not lower than 10.5. To start work it is necessary to load and install the client module Norton Safety Minder on computers of children.