InternetSafety-com Review - why 4.8 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Aug 03, 2019

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What is InternetSafety-com?

Safe Eyes is a parental control and antivirus security solution for individual users and businesses. The software was designed by InternetSafety headquartered in Georgia, United States. Other than parental control and online security, the software also provides program controls and other useful features.

Who is it best for?

Although mostly the software is deployed by individual home users, it is also a viable option for network administrators and computer labs. In the commercial domain, it has mainly been deployed by small and medium businesses.

Whether you a network administrator who is looking for reasonably priced software for the protection of his network or an individual user trying to safeguard his or her computer against viruses, Safe Eyes can be a very reasonable option.

Other than computer labs and network administration, the software has been commercially deployed in such industries as finance, retail and manufacture, government agencies and others. Although the software has support for both Windows and Mac, its feature set for Windows users is much wider.

Main features and functionalities

The software offers various filters to scan all the content on your computer whether it was already saved on the computer or is being generated from the internet. This includes videos, music, documents and websites. Before the content is used on your computer, it is scanned by the software to make sure that there is no malicious virus on it.

Safe Eyes provides safe search for the search engines. The software also provides various useful reporting and statistics features such as activity summary reports, instant alerts, list of sites attempted to visit, and real time access to reports. Features specifically related with websites and browsing include category blocking, customizable blocked URLs, and peer-2-peer website blocking.

Safe Eyes also offers protection related to social networking, email, gaming, chat and music. For all these aspects, it offers different security features.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $50 per user/year. ITQlick pricing score is 6.8 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for InternetSafety-com.

Pros

• The software deploys different dedicated filters for different kind of virus scanning.
• Other than simple website scanning, the software also scans the downloaded content for viruses.
• The software also provides parental controls which can be used to keep check on the internet activities and time of your kids.
• You can receive a daily or weekly summary of all the internet activity over the previous day or week.
• The software allows you to block profane, sexually suggestive, and other inappropriate content.

Cons

• The core features of Safe Eyes do not include blocking of internet apps, instant override, and tiered access levels.
• Administrators do not have the facility of real time monitoring of computers in the network.
• In the website protection features, the software does not offer keyword blocking and proxy prevention.
• You do not have the option of filtering adult content from social networking websites, although you can block porn websites in general.
• The chat features of Safe Eyes do not include chat monitoring and chat-room blocking.

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of InternetSafety-com vs alternative software solutions.

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