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User Guide
McAfee Family Protection
McAfee Family Protection | Social Networking
Social Networking
Social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and Xanga provide a virtual community for people interested
in common subjects to connect or just to “hang out” together. The network grows as members contact friends of other
members. In some cases, social networks serve as a vehicle for meeting in person. These functions
can be red flags for parents who want to understand their children’s online relationships. Family Protection
helps you do that.
Family Protection helps monitor personal information that users post on social networking sites such as
phone number, address and geographical location. Family Protection also monitors profanity and sexually
explicit terms posted on social networking sites. Therefore, if teenager Josh posts a message with profanity
in it for his friends on his MySpace page, mom or dad will also get to view that message in the usage logs.
Or, if 14 year-old Kristin is chatting with a friend on her Xanga page, and mentions her school’s name while
discussing the upcoming football game, Family Protection will automatically record it on the usage logs.
Safety Note:
While Family Protection does not block the information from being posted, it will show up in
the usage logs so that mom or dad can use the incident to further discuss online safety with their children and request to
have the information removed.
Monitoring for Personal Information
To call out personal information for Family Protection to track and record, fill in the appropriate blanks
under “Record the Following Personal Information.” To add more information, click the “Add More
Personal Information,” button.
Here, a parent can add additional
phone numbers, addresses or key
phrases by using the pull down
menu under “Add a New Entry.”
The information will appear in the
“Record the Following Personal
Information” box.
Safety Note:
Even if a phone
number gets posted to a social
networking site under multiple
configurations in an attempt to
circumvent detection, Family
Protection is able to catch and
record the post.
Monitoring for Explicit Terms
To record postings that include profanity and sexually explicit terms used on social networking sites, check
the boxes under, “Record Web Postings Containing.” Once checked, click “Save Settings.”
