User Guide - Kaspersky Lab

CHAPTER 14. PARENTAL
CONTROL
Parental Control is a Kaspersky Internet Security component that monitors user
access to the Internet. Its main objective is to restrict access, first and foremost,
to the following resources:
• Websites for an adult audience or whose contents deal with pornography,
weapons, illicit drugs, violence, etc.
• Websites that could lead to wasting time (chat rooms, games) or money
(e-stores, auctions).
It should be noted that such websites often contain a large number of malicious
programs, and downloading data from such sites as gaming sites can
substantially boost Internet traffic.
User access to websites is restricted by giving a user one of the three preinstalled
profiles for accessing the Internet.
A profile consists of a set of rules that control any user attempt to access any
website. The decision to allow or block access to a certain website is made by
comparing its URL to white and black lists of web addresses and by classifying
the contents of the page in one or several blocked categories.
If a profile is not assigned, the most restrictive Child profile is assigned by
default. A single profile may be assigned more than one account. By logging into
the system using a user account, the user is granted access to web resources
exactly as permitted by the assigned profile’s settings.
Parent and Teenager may be password protected (cf. 14.2.1, p. 194). You can
only switch to a password-protected profile after entering this password.
Let's take a look at how Parental Control works:
1. The user logs into the system.
• If the account under which the user logs into the system is not
assigned one of the available profiles, the most restrictive Child
profile is loaded by default;
• if the user account is linked to a certain profile, that profile is loaded.
2. The user accesses a website while using the computer under the user
account controlled by the active profile.