NATHAN SCHUBERT: Hi, my name is Nathan Schubert. I've been working in the field of e-commerce and internet security for about the last 10 years, and I have certification in computer-related crime investigation. I'm going to give you a couple of tips on how to appropriately monitor your child's internet usage. Probably, the most effective thing right off the bat and the simplest to implement is to actually put your computer in a location of the house that's a high traffic area such as your living room, even dining room sorts of areas. Children tend to not get into locations where they shouldn't be when there's parents walking around behind them when there's the chance of an adult looking over their shoulder and catching them every five seconds, so that tends to really kind of limit their ability to get into trouble. Another thing you definitely want to do is sit down with your child and establish a set of rules and regulations for when they do surf the internet. Things like who they're allowed to talk to, what kind of information they're actually allowed to give out such as their name, e-mail address, where they live, even the school the they go to, things that online predators and things like that can really use to their advantage to get to your child. Some of the other things that you should talk to your child about is sort of setting up a contingency plan for if somebody does try to contact them inappropriately or something like that, or if they come across an inappropriate e-mail or things like that. Let them know that it's okay to come to you rather with that information that it's okay to report these things that they're not the ones in trouble for it, and then you can actually go ahead and report that as you see fit. There are good e-mail spam programs out there that will actually block out a lot of the offensive content that comes directly to your child's e-mail address. However, with spam, they're in the business of circumventing those restrictions, so you're always going to have some spam that comes to your child's e-mail box. So it's always important to remind them, don't open anything that isn't from somebody they know even if it seems like it might be from somebody they know, or even if it seems like it might be something that they're interested in. Odds are they're not going to be interesting. If you're afraid that your kid's not listening and if they're going to be getting into trouble anyway, you can always install a keylogger software. It essentially takes up everything that your child types, everywhere they visit. It's actually pretty invasive, but desperate times call for desperate measures. So if you do have a situation where your kid's not listening, keylogger software would be the best way to go.
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