I think I am getting some valuable ideas from your post and I thank you for that. One other idea I am thinking of doing is setting the router up so only port 80 is active. This way I can stop all UDP traffic thus eliminating any P2P communication. I think you would all agree that P2P would be one of my main concerns here. I will only allow http and ftp traffic so they will still be able to surf the internet and download information if needed. The Linux theory would just be to complex for them to manage not being computer literate as such. So my other option will be install McAfee Internet Security. I think I will have to stick with as many Microsoft solutions as possible as the older one is taking computer classes at school and obviously this is the schools software of choice so it would make sense to use it on the home PC.
The PC will be in the family room where they spend most of the time. I see that the parental control has options to allow internet access on selected time periods. So we would set the open time around the main period when they would normally all be in the family area. They are going to treat it as a family type project all participating in the use of it.
Last edited by Roadwasher; 05/11/2006 3:52 PM.
