

Also for the advanced and reporting functions, only the most important features are listed in the table. Data on the additional six filter categories was not surveyed. That is why the rating of identification performance of websites only includes the four areas of pornography, entertainment games, dating and meeting sites as well as illegal data exchange and file sharing. These products, however, did not participate in the certification test but only in an abbreviated examination of key areas. Both receive the certificate "APPROVED Parental Control Windows 07/2017".Īdditional products come from Ars Nova Systems, Bitdefender, ESET, F-Secure, G Data, McAfee, Mobicip, Salfeld, JusProg, Trend Micro and Witigo. The products from Kaspersky Lab and Symantec underwent an advanced certification test and also passed with flying colors. The embedded system protection settings for children under Windows 10 or Mac OS Sierra provide a comparison for the tested protection software. The lab also took a look at the most important reporting functions. Furthermore, the additional features in the software packages were examined in terms of how easily they could be circumvented. The basis for this was the virtual seven-year-old, Timmy, entered in the software profile. The first step of the test examined the filtering and identification of websites inappropriate for children.

As several protection solutions also run under Mac OS Sierra, the embedded protection features for children in Mac were also checked. In addition, the entire test scope also included the embedded protection features for children in Windows 10. The lab at AV-TEST examined 13 parental control software packages in a comprehensive test. 13 parental control software packages put to the test
