Symantec Release Free Norton Safety Minder for Android
At this time I present a little review about a Free App for Android from Symantec. This application is called "Norton Safety Minder" which only works on Android 2.2 and 2.3 devices for now. This app serves to control children's mobile Internet habits as well or function as a mobile parental control software for android phone. Norton Safety Minder is a free application for android released by Symantec which can be downloaded for free from Android Market. It's free to use after you sign up for a Norton Online Family account, a free parental control suite for desktops.
For parents who worry about their children’s Internet habits, they have to consider their mobile Internet habits as well.
Norton Safety Minder lets parents openly track and block websites their children access on an Android device, similar to McAfee Family Protection. It does so by attaching itself to the stock browser in their child's mobile device and blocking sites based on an age category or customized list. It doesn't monitor non-native Android browsers, like Opera and Dolphin, but if the Norton Safety Minder app does not send monitoring activity to Norton Online Family servers for 10 days, an alert will be logged for the parent to view.
This android app also lets parents see their child's entire search history and a list of attempted visits to websites, which McAfee Family Protection does not offer.
This android app offers more features for Norton Online Family Premier holders ($49.99/year or $29.99/year for the first year, direct). Premier members can also see whom their children text or MMS, plus the contents of these conversations, which sit in Symantec's servers for up to 90 days. From the Web-based control panel parents can create a white-list of approved contacts and a black-list of people to block.
