Protection in Your Home

The proliferation of computers in the home, coupled with high-speed broadband communications, portable memory devices (such as USB keys and MP3 players) and mobile telephones, children now have unprecedented access the inappropriate material. 

While much Internet activity is innocuous, according to the London School of Economics 90 percent of children aged between 8 and 16 has viewed pornography on the Internet. Natural curiosity can cause children to visit inappropriate sites, thereby introducing pornographic images into the home or school.  Spam emails also bombard families with unwanted images and images once discovered can be rapidly distributed on portable memory devices.

It was reported in the House of Lords in the UK that 20,000 new porn pages are published on the Internet each day, making conventional technology, which simply blocks access to well known porn sites, only partially effective and constantly playing catch-up. Moreover, such technology cannot stop inappropriate material from being introduced onto computers using encrypted emails, secure web proxies, images embedded in other files or via other media such as CDs or DVDs, USB-keys, mobile phones, MP3 players or digital cameras.

SafeScreen uses unique combination of scanning and blurring to provide an added line of defence on the computer. SafeScreen scans image material before it is displayed on screen and will blur, block or monitor inappropriate images, depending upon the settings selected by the parent or guardian, obscuring potentially unsettling images. This provides real-time prevention from unexpected exposure to these unwelcome images, no matter how they arrive on the PC, no matter what program is being used to view them.

SafeScreen’s intuitive Parental Control features, which are password protected, allow parents to configure SafeScreen individually for each computer user. Parent can set the scanning sensitivity, decide whether to blur, block or monitor and review images which have been obscured. At any time parents can override blurring, using a parental control password, should an image be considered to be harmless. Furthermore, if the PC is left unattended for a period of time, blurring automatically resumes.