Thanks for the reply Drew. This family is not that computer savvy, so
the easier the better. Any other creative ideas on how to stop the kids
getting online by themselves?
Riva
Drew Trusz wrote:
Couple of options, most of which are probably more trouble than your
friends want to deal with. Set the firewall to block port 80. The
parents will have to log into the firewall to turn it on when they use
it and remember to turn it back off again.
If it's an xp pro edition, look at the local policies to edit them to
disable IE. I don't think this can be done on the home edition. This
link looks at some of the ways to do this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/windowsxp/secwinxp/xpsgch05.mspx
Don't have any recommendations for nanny's since I don't have anyone
that needs minding; they are all old enough so I can ask them to take
care of me.
drew
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