How to Set Parental Controls in McAfee
McAfee includes a parental control feature that can filter and restrict access to the Web for other users on your computer. Each Windows user account can have its own parental control settings, requiring each user on the computer to use a different user account to effectively apply parental control settings. You can filter images, specify an age group to only allow age-appropriate content, restrict access to the Internet to certain times of the day and block websites containing specific words.
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Instructions
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Right-click the M-shaped "McAfee" icon in the system tray at the bottom right corner of your screen and select "Open SecurityCenter."
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Click "Parental Controls" in the SecurityCenter window and click "Configure."
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Click the "Advanced" button.
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Click a user account in the list and cick "Edit" to modify its parental control settings.
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Click "On" in the Image Filtering section if you want to filter out inappropriate images for the user account.
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Click a setting such as "Young Child," "Child," "Younger Teen," "Older Teen" or "Adult" to set an appropriate content filter for the user's age.
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Click the "This User Can Only Access Sites in the Allowed Web Sites List" if you want to restrict access to all websites except those you specifically allow.
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Click and drag in the Web Browsing Time Limits grid to specify times the user can't access the Internet.
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Click "Filtered Web Sites" at the left side of the Parental Controls window, type a website address into the box at the bottom of the Filtered Web Sites pane and click "Block" or "Allow" to specifically block or allow certain websites.
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Click "Keywords" at the left side of the Parental Controls window and click the "On" option if you want to enable keyword filtering. Type keywords into the Look For box to block websites containing these words for specific age groups.
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Click "OK" to save your settings.
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Tips & Warnings
Only the Image Filtering option can be applied to administrator user accounts. Change the user accounts to limited user accounts using the Windows user accounts control panel to apply more settings.
Create new user accounts in Windows by clicking "Start," clicking "Control Panel," clicking "Add or Remove User Accounts" under User Accounts in the Control Panel window, and clicking "Create a New Account."
