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Family Safety 

Features:

Help keep your kids safer online

With Family Safety, you decide how your kids experience the Internet. You can limit searches, block or allow websites, decide who your kids can communicate with when they’re using Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail, or Spaces and monitor what websites they're visiting.*
Overview
* Family Safety software must be installed on each computer your children use. If software is not installed, the safety settings cannot be enforced.

See what they're doing

Detailed activity reports for each child show you the websites your children visit (or try to visit), and whether a site was allowed or blocked.
Activity reports

Filter out the bad stuff

Web filtering helps you protect your kids from the online content you don't want them to see. Create different filters for each child.
Content filtering

Who's your new friend?

Built-in contact and website approval helps you know who your kids are talking to in e-mail or blogs on Windows Live, or in IM on Windows Live Messenger. Just sign in to the Family Safety website to approve or reject each new contact.
Contact management

Change settings from almost anywhere

Access and adjust each child's safety settings from the Family Safety website, accessible from almost any computer on the web.
Anywhere access
Depending on your security settings, you might see one or more of these messages.
  1. If you see a message asking if you want to Run or Save, click Run.
  2. If you see a message asking if you want to Run or Save, click Run.
  3. If you see a message asking if you want to Cancel or Allow, click Allow.
  4. Once the installation is done, you’ll find your new programs in the Windows Live folder on your Windows Start menu.

Get Family Safety, or all these programs—they’re free!

Clicking "Download" means you agree to the Microsoft service agreement and privacy statement. The download may include updates to Windows Live programs you already have. You’ll get future updates to these and other Microsoft programs from Microsoft Update. Learn more
If your installation doesn’t start right away, check the system requirements, or click Try again.
Trying again downloads a standalone installer to your computer. This takes a little while, but may work better, depending on your connection settings.