Archive for September, 2008

The Answer To Online Safety For Parents: Monitoring Software

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

The online safety issue is as hot as ever. And now with kids back to school, there seems to be a heightened awareness once again. And rightfully so… But what ticks me off to no end is the fact that there is a 100-percent guaranteed foolproof solution to the problem – a clear-cut definite answer [...]

Wacky Internet Predator Wednesday, Version 16.0

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

You know the drill… here’s this week’s round-up of scumbags caught trying to entice kids over the Internet for sex. In one case, a father came to the rescue!
These are three more reasons that parents need to be using parental control/monitoring software to make sure their kids are safe. In the example with the father, [...]

Facebook Tests Safety Icon

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Props to Facebook for being the first of the two big guys to test this out for permanent use… Of course, parents should also be a safety icon for their kids and PC Pandora parental control and monitoring software can help…
Facebook tests icon for reporting predators, pornography
By Heather Havenstein, Computerworld
Facebook has started testing a safety [...]

PC Pandora Named as Parental Aide in Cyberbullying Story

Friday, September 5th, 2008

I always like to gloat when we are featured in a media story. Thanks to KBJR-TV in Duluth for including us! Click the headline below to get to the homepage and watch the story!!
Reminder to parents – monitoring software like our PC Pandora can help stop cyberbullying. It will show you if your child is [...]

Man Has Sex With Teen Met Through MySpace

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Sort of a follow-up to the Wacky Internet Predator Wednesday series, here is a dude in KY that thought it would be cool to have sex with a 15-year-old girl he met on MySpace. The guy is 21.
The issue here that parents need to take notice of is that the sex was consensual! The girl [...]

Wacky Internet Predator Wednesday, Part 15

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

It’s Wednesday, and we’ve got another round-up of the nasty dirtbags preying on kids on the Internet that were – fortunately – swept up in Internet sting operations by local law enforcement…
Parents, another reminder: just because your kid isn’t a victim doesn’t mean there aren’t sickos out there trying to lure your kids and make [...]

MySpace “Friend” Robs his “Friend”

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

More reasons to stay off MySpace, or at the very least, leave your relationships/ “friendships” at the login. The word “friend(ships)” is in quotes because on the site, your buddy list are called friends… for those of you that didn’t know. Kind of ironic, or rather a nice analogy, of the way people treat their [...]