Web Browsing with Parental Controls

Question: I have a daughter that is almost 8 now and is starting to get around the net quite well now. My issues is I'm on Tiger 10.4.11 and it don't have the parental controls that leopard 10.5 has. Is there a quick fix for this or is my only 2 options would be to upgrade to leopard which I really don't want to or purchase a security software.
David

sorry my recent post on logs kind of speaks forebodingly about safe eyes...somehow a logger that I cannot track with anti-vandal has found way in...other than that their program works well...You may also check out intego's Content Barrier X%.
Apples parental controls work but they do not filter well...all you can really do is allow only certain websites...WATCH OUT FOR THE KIDS GAMES>>A Close friend had over 70 viruse hit because they were latching onto the games
Hope you have success
Also check out K-9 web protection....Email them to see if the Mac version has been upgraded enough to get out the bugs..Mac version was new 6 mos ago
Their program is totally free.

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Please help if you know what might work. I bought a Mac because of the parental controls, which are apparently useless!

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Why would you think that? There's not a single commercial cache engine or proxy I'm aware of that works that way. If a site isn't restricted the proxy server simply passes the traffic instead of restricting it. It doesn't change the routing or proxy on the guest machine.

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Hi, I'm having an issue with Parentel Controls.
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My son could not interact with sites (log in, post) but he could access them (when parental controls were turned on). I had to go under "preferences" on Firefox (under his name) First go to the drop down the menu from the word "Firefox" then "Preferences" "Privacy" (at the top) then "Exceptions" on the right..... and add each address of the sites and pages I wanted to allow. That worked like a charm!! Maybe pull up the itunes STORE address, copy and paste it in "always allow" (you can choose "block" also.....) This is in Firefox PREFERENCES, not just the parental control section.....
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how do i reset my mac completely? I have parental controls and cant seem to get to time machine cause i bought the computer with parental controls on it and they did not have the password. How do i completely reset my macbook pro?

If you have a rescue email address (which is not the same thing as an alternate email address) on your account then the steps on this page will give you a reset link on your account : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6170
If you don't have a rescue email address (you won't be able to add one until you can answer your questions) then you will need to contact Support in your country to get the questions reset.
Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
When they've been reset (and if you don't already have a rescue email address) you can then use the steps on this page to add a rescue email address for potential future use : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5620
Or, if it's available in your country, you could change to 2-step verification : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5570

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CS5 Design Standard, OS X Snow Leopard
I have a user account with parental controls, and when the user opens, there is a message to the effect that "you don't have permission to open switchboard"
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Is it necessary to have switchboard open on login? I don't see an application or launcher in the normal places that opens switchboard, the only place is in the user Adobe preferences file. Is that where it is prompted to open on login?
Can I delete the file launch.switchboard to prevent open on login, but still retain the usability of the program?
What does switchboard do exactly?
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I know how to do that, thank you for answering though. Is there an easier way than selecting EACH folder and having to do this. To give you an example, I copied my iTunes Library over to the new account...I made the library file and the main iTunes music file read & write but I have over 400 artist folders and do not want to go in and change each of them individually. Is there any easier way to keep logs that I am not aware about? There were 2 reasons I wanted to created this account with parental controls. I wanted to password protect safari and firefox so that my nephew that is staying with us can not open these applications when we are not here. The other reason was to keep the logs. Is there any easier way to go about this?

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Kevin

hi k,
yes you can down grade her account and enable parental controls. This will not delete her content such as itunes, photos, documents, extra.
if you haven't done so already, make another administrator account with you will use to manage the computer. Make sure the account has a password; and that password is not the same as her password.
then Login with the new administrator account.
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you can now configure parental controls.

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I have one user with admin rights and one user plus guest with parental controls turned on. Recently when parental controls are turned on, I get 'safari can't connect to server' error. When I turn parental controls off again I can connect to the internet again. Why is this?

Hi and welcome....
Unfortunately, Parental Controls can only be enabled on a non admin account.
See if there's a proxy set up for Safari. From the Safari menu bar click Safari / Preferences then select the Advanced tab. Click "Change Settings" next to: Proxies.
That will launch System Preferences / Network - Proxies.
If there are any boxes checked under: Select a protocol to configure, deselect the box then click Ok.
Quit Safari (Command + Q) then relaunch Safari.
See if Safari can connect in a parental controlled user account.
Carolyn

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Hi all, I am new to here.
I'm doing my final project, which I have to develop a web browser, with some website unaccessable, like porn site.
I have totally no idea on how to do this on my browser (somemore my browser is not running properly). Got people told me that I can store those banned website's URL in a text file, then read from there and compare to the Address bar, if same then block that website.
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Hi all, I am new to here.
I'm doing my final project, which I have to develop a
web browser, with some website unaccessable, like
porn site.You need to develop a browser? Isn't that a bit too much work for 1 person?
I have totally no idea on how to do this on my
browser (somemore my browser is not running
properly).Uh, you finished your browser already? Well then the hard part is done.
Got people told me that I can store those
banned website's URL in a text file, then read from
there and compare to the Address bar, if same then
block that website.That would be quite a bit of work. An easier approach would be to block addresses based on words appearing in them.

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Hi all, I am new to here.
I'm doing my final project, which I have to develop a
web browser, with some website unaccessable, like
porn site.You need to develop a browser? Isn't that a bit too much work for 1 person?
I have totally no idea on how to do this on my
browser (somemore my browser is not running
properly).Uh, you finished your browser already? Well then the hard part is done.
Got people told me that I can store those
banned website's URL in a text file, then read from
there and compare to the Address bar, if same then
block that website.That would be quite a bit of work. An easier approach would be to block addresses based on words appearing in them.

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I was wondering if there is a way to change the default homepage in Safari with an account managed with parental controls. Currently, Safari comes up with Apple as the default homepage. If I try to change it within the managed account the homepage option in preferences is grayed out. I also can't find anywhere to change it from my administrator account.

I actually figured out how to do it. I disabled parental controls for the account, logged in, changed the homepage, logged out, then re-enabled parental controls. I think you're idea would work too though.
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