Safe Eyes Parental Control Suite

by Avanquest

Product Features

• Windows and Mac compatible - includes a 3-user license that can be used on any combination of Windows and Mac computers in your home, school, or office
• #1 Rated Parental Control Software: PC Magazine Editors Choice Award, LapTop Magazine Editors Choice Award, Parents' Choice Approved
• Blocks access to inappropriate Web sites; sophisticated Internet filter blocks harmful content, such as pornography and drugs. Or set your own filters.
• Monitors your child's online interactions; tracks, blocks, and records instant messaging, email, and social networking communication.
• Controls PC, online and program access, allowing you to set time limits or schedule web time for your kids. Prevents attempts to access blocked Web sites, alerting you by email, SMS, or phone when your kids try accessing inappropriate Web sites.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001HWLD8S
• Item model number: SYWT
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 1, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,797 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #3 in Software > Computer Security > Parental Control

Product Description

Top Rated Parental Control Software - SafeEyes is the recognized leader in providing the top rated internet safety solution that keeps families and business safe online.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good parental control, for 1 year., March 29, 2009

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Lainy (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Safe Eyes Parental Control Suite (CD-ROM)

This seems to be a good parental control software that was easy to install. It did ask me to restart my PC several times, but that wasn't a problem. Where I did find a bit of a problem is getting more of a description of the product only after reading the software agreement. This isn't anything Amazon.com could know unless Nova Development would point it out to them. Or if someone like me would. (Guess I will) If you read the "Agreement" when you install the software, you'll find that what you purchased is a 1-year license for using this software. Near the end of the 1-year, they will notify you via email (it's your responsibility to make sure they have your current email address, with repercussions when they try to notify you, if you hadn't) that your subscription is about to expire. If they don't hear from you, they put the next year's subscription on your credit card. If you want to purchase the full license at the time of installation of this software version, you can pay another $49 right away and you don't have to worry about the subscription thing next year. I'm not sure if this is such a bad thing, but if you think that the price you're paying for this piece of software is it forever; surprise, surprise.

46 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful and a Nightmare Simultaneously, April 20, 2009

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French Chef (South Hill VA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Safe Eyes Parental Control Suite (CD-ROM)

This product works wonderfully in and of itself. It has all of the parental controls you need and the customer support is polite.

I am running this software on an XP and a Vista and a Mac machine and all three are varying shades of nightmare. I have spent over 25 hours with phone support because Safe Eyes blocks all internet communication and the answer from phone support is always the same, delete the software and reinstall it. It works fine until you reboot you computer then it's messed up again.

It is terrible with Mac, it is bad with Vista and OK with XP. I would NOT recommend this product for any other platform other than XP. After 7 reinstalls it seem to be fine on XP. On Vista 64-bit is works fine but you must follow these steps, login to Vista, sign in to Safe Eyes, have Safe Eyes timeout and say it is disabling the computer, turn off DSL, turn off computer, reboot DSL, reboot computer, login to Safe Eyes, stand on one foot, do the hokey pokey and then it works until the next time you turn off the computer, then you get to do the whole double boot process again.

On Mac forget about it. Two weeks on the phone and the answer is still delete the software and reinstall.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Works well - when its working. NOT recommended for Mac OS X, July 3, 2009

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B. Christensen "Frequent traveler, business o... (Santa Barbara, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Safe Eyes Parental Control Suite (CD-ROM)

For a single user system, I can imagine that Safe Eyes will do a good job of making the Internet safe for a kid. The content blocking is reliable and does a good job.

Unfortunately, it does NOT support multiple users on the same Mac very well at all. Despite the fact that I used the administration tool to remove ALL blocking from both my wife's and my user accounts, we still constantly get blocked from accessing things as simple as Google images. Frequently it will block ALL internet access.

Tech support's solution is too complicated to be practical - log in as one user, purge the browser cache, log that user out, log in another user, purge the browser cache, etc. I finally gave up and now we are going to try Net Nanny since there is now a Mac version. I hope it is a lot less buggy than Safe Eyes!