ZoneAlarm SocialGuard is aimed at protecting your children when they are active on the social network sites including Facebook. SocialGuard is designed to protect your children against cyberbullies, strangers, dangerous links and much more. It is equipped to alert you as soon as a threat is detected.
By using ZoneAlarm SocialGuard, you can relax each time your children are online for they are well protected. The Social Guard feature is equipped to detect alarming words, age concerns and hacking of accounts. You will also be intimated when inappropriate content is posted on your children’s Facebook profile.
What features can you look forward to?
ZoneAlarm SocialGuard offers a wide range of features to its users –
As the name of the security software suggest, ZoneAlarm SocialGuard detects social media threat and provides a guard against them especially when children are using Facebook and other social networking sites.
ZoneAlarm SocialGuard is equipped to detect the following
• Cyberbuylling – This software scans through messages, status updates and wall posting for alarming words and unsuitable content and informs you of the same.
• Age Concerns – In case, adults posing as children try to interact with your children can be easily detected and you will be informed of the same.
• Strangers – Receive alerts you when a stranger tries to get in touch with your child.
• Unwanted and Dangerous Links – The software will scan through the private messages, status updates, and wall posts and pay attention to the links present in them while any dangerous links will be detected in order to avoid further damage.
• Account Activity – The account activity is monitored and in case if the Facebook account is hacked and misused in any manner.
Social Networking sites are extremely attractive and make everybody wish for an active online presence. At times our children are innocent and unaware of the lurking dangers of the same. Also, they are not aware of the extent of personal information they are supposed to reveal. This does pose to be a cause of worry for parents who are not in a position to monitor their children when they are online.
Research and studies have revealed that children have become targets of cyberbulling, unwanted sexual solicitations online and even received malware links along with higher incidences of account hackings. In order to avoid the aftermath of these attacks, parents can install the ZoneAlarm SocialGuard and protect their children at all times and stay secure while guiding them through their use of online social network sites.
ZoneAlarm SocialGuard can be installed on PCs with Windows 7, Vista and XP for monitoring their children’s activity on Facebook. Once installed, the children can access their Facebook account from PC, Mac or even a smartphone, SocialGuard will monitor their accounts all the time. The parents need not have a Facebook account to access the Social Guard service.
System requirements suitable for ZoneAlarm SocialGuard -
Microsoft® Windows® 7: 1 GHz 32-bit processor, 1 GB RAM
1 GHz 64-bit processor, 2 GB RAM
Microsoft Windows, XP SP3 only, Home or Professional Edition:
* 1 GHz 32-bit processor, 1GB RAM
Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 or SP2 : 1 GHz 32-bit processor, 2 GB RAM
1 GHz 64-bit processor, 4 GB RAM
50MB of available hard-disk space
Social Guard is compatible with most IP/TCP connections ranging from cable modem, dial up connections, wireless LAN and even Ethernet LAN.