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Good virus protection for kids first computer?
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on April 06, 2013, 07:43:22 PM ---
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 06, 2013, 07:37:15 PM ---o.o why not lock down an entire partition and have a special partition in sandbox mode? the locked partitions can't be changed or touched, yeah it may block updates too.
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They need to be able to run and update their games so I don't think that'd be feasible.
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then put the games in the sandbox :laugh:
edit: simply put, you'll have more than one partition, most of them are locked, the ones that are unlocked are in sandbox mode.
candidates for locked partition is OS, some apps, etc. though anti-virus should be on a sandbox so it can update it's library.
Saras:
Oh god. You lot would make such overbearing parents.
I'm so god damn happy that I grew up in a family where I had full admin privileges to all of the systems in the house since I was 5.
Why the hell are you in a race to make the computer be as unusable as humanly possible? It's a separate machine, where'd she'd be the only operator. If she gets a virus? Nuke it, restart go at it once more until she learns not to fuck up. What is she going to lose, tax data from the last 10 years, really now? Her youtube account? Fuck all of that shit. This is the perfect opportunity for her to learn from her mistakes. It won't hurt anyone, it's not a shared system. She's free to fuck it over as many times as she wants. Trial and error is part of any learning process.
Go back to reality, will you? This is the first laptop for a 7 year old girl, she doesn't have ANY valuable data on it, she isn't doing ANY transactions on it, she isn't holding down to ANY important data. It's a toy for her, and it should treated as such.
Microsoft Security Essentials and a basic Ad block is all she needs ontop of a clean system. Make an image of that and just restore it whenever she fucks up. And let her do it over and over and over again.
I hope none of you become parents any time soon.
sams88:
--- Quote from: Saras on April 07, 2013, 08:53:42 AM ---Oh god. You lot would make such overbearing parents.
I'm so god damn happy that I grew up in a family where I had full admin privileges to all of the systems in the house since I was 5.
Why the hell are you in a race to make the computer be as unusable as humanly possible? It's a separate machine, where'd she'd be the only operator. If she gets a virus? Nuke it, restart go at it once more until she learns not to fuck up. What is she going to lose, tax data from the last 10 years, really now? Her youtube account? Fuck all of that shit. This is the perfect opportunity for her to learn from her mistakes. It won't hurt anyone, it's not a shared system. She's free to fuck it over as many times as she wants. Trial and error is part of any learning process.
Go back to reality, will you? This is the first laptop for a 7 year old girl, she doesn't have ANY valuable data on it, she isn't doing ANY transactions on it, she isn't holding down to ANY important data. It's a toy for her, and it should treated as such.
Microsoft Security Essentials and a basic Ad block is all she needs ontop of a clean system. Make an image of that and just restore it whenever she fucks up. And let her do it over and over and over again.
I hope none of you become parents any time soon.
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Not even a porn internet filter ? Raising children is not freerange chicken rearing ::)
Saras:
--- Quote from: sams88 on April 07, 2013, 10:19:57 AM ---
--- Quote from: Saras on April 07, 2013, 08:53:42 AM ---Oh god. You lot would make such overbearing parents.
I'm so god damn happy that I grew up in a family where I had full admin privileges to all of the systems in the house since I was 5.
Why the hell are you in a race to make the computer be as unusable as humanly possible? It's a separate machine, where'd she'd be the only operator. If she gets a virus? Nuke it, restart go at it once more until she learns not to fuck up. What is she going to lose, tax data from the last 10 years, really now? Her youtube account? Fuck all of that shit. This is the perfect opportunity for her to learn from her mistakes. It won't hurt anyone, it's not a shared system. She's free to fuck it over as many times as she wants. Trial and error is part of any learning process.
Go back to reality, will you? This is the first laptop for a 7 year old girl, she doesn't have ANY valuable data on it, she isn't doing ANY transactions on it, she isn't holding down to ANY important data. It's a toy for her, and it should treated as such.
Microsoft Security Essentials and a basic Ad block is all she needs ontop of a clean system. Make an image of that and just restore it whenever she fucks up. And let her do it over and over and over again.
I hope none of you become parents any time soon.
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Not even a porn internet filter ? Raising children is not freerange chicken rearing ::)
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Yes, because hardcore porn is the first thing on the mind of a 7 year old girl, that's yet to hit puberty. And even then, if she wanted to find porn, she could, whatever fucking filters you have and there's nothing you can do about it, that comes with the territory. Even if she did stumble upon porn, chances are, she wouldn't understand what's the deal with it, being banned from something on the other hand is likely to have a forbidden apple effect. "Why can't I view this content?", "why can't I search this word?".
You want to make sure she doesn't look at porn, don't allow her to use the computer while secluded in a room from other people. Simply make it a "in the living room only" sort of thing. That's both the most effective and the least debilitating measure.
Also, we aren't in the internet of the late 90's, where porn adds an other such shit were abound. You really won't come into contact with porn unless you specifically look for it.
And, to be frank, what's with the whole fear of ooh, she might found out what an adult human body looks like. All of the violence on daytime tv is far worse. And if you want an introduction to porn, just watch some rap video. There really is no way from protecting kids from all the stuff without destroying her means with interacting with society at large.
sams88:
--- Quote from: Saras on April 07, 2013, 10:41:40 AM ---Yes, because hardcore porn is the first thing on the mind of a 7 year old girl, that's yet to hit puberty. And even then, if she wanted to find porn, she could, whatever fucking filters you have and there's nothing you can do about it, that comes with the territory. Even if she did stumble upon porn, chances are, she wouldn't understand what's the deal with it, being banned from something on the other hand is likely to have a forbidden apple effect. "Why can't I view this content?", "why can't I search this word?".
You want to make sure she doesn't look at porn, don't allow her to use the computer while secluded in a room from other people. Simply make it a "in the living room only" sort of thing. That's both the most effective and the least debilitating measure.
Also, we aren't in the internet of the late 90's, where porn adds an other such shit were abound. You really won't come into contact with porn unless you specifically look for it.
And, to be frank, what's with the whole fear of ooh, she might found out what an adult human body looks like. All of the violence on daytime tv is far worse. And if you want an introduction to porn, just watch some rap video. There really is no way from protecting kids from all the stuff without destroying her means with interacting with society at large.
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Putting the computer on the living room does help a lot, but also using a Internet Providers blacklists would also help provide some protection.
Yes some elements of day time TV are bad, which is why some family TV viewing or direction is always a good thing. As for interaction with society I don't see why my kid would lose in not being in contact with harmful things, interacting with society at large is not more important than being raised as a balanced person.
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