• All Internet browsers today have safe browsing features such as, pop-up blocking and phishing site protection. The new Google chrome browser also has security features that protect you when you surf the web. You can check out this YouTube video – Defenders in Tights. You can also check Google safe browsing documentation – Google Chrome safe browsing features.
    Parents should be aware that Google chrome browser has privacy mode that you can initialize by opening the ‘Customize and control Google Chrome’ tab and choosing ‘New incognito window’. In this window history of your Internet activities will not be kept. This feature may allow children to surf unsupervised. Internet savvy kids can use this incognito window to hide from their parents their internet activities. Since IE8 and Firefox 3.5 have also privacy features parents may find it hard to supervise their children Internet activities by relying on the Internet history on the child’s PC.

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