Anyone know AOL parental controls??

Glen in Tinsel Knickers · 27-09-08, 00:30

Just curious, if there are different screen names and user accounts on a pc and one has parental controls how can that account suddenly try to visit several (blocked) sites that the other users visit.

eg

GR, Ancestry, FTF, my FTM tree site, youtube and others.

By default we always surf via the AOL homepage, now we use vista i can't even work out how to pull up the history on IE (found some bits i had to block on the old XP machine).

Heather Positive Thinker · 30-09-08, 23:30

Cant help you with the AOL thing Glen (how come no one has answered this yet??) but I can tell you on VISTA IE7 you get history by clicking on the little star icon top left hand of the page. Dont you use Firefox?

KiteRunner · 30-09-08, 23:32

Glen, sorry, I didn't really understand the question - are you saying that the parental control account tried to visit those sites and was blocked, or did manage to visit them but should have been blocked, or is it something else that you want to know?

Glen in Tinsel Knickers · 05-10-08, 19:09

Apologies
I didn't catch the replies till today.

Having followed the tip from Heather the browsing history doesn't display any results for IE, but see below re the AOL homepage reference.

Stepson has a user account on the pc and also his own aol screen-name/sign in for accessing the internet, his aol settings are "young teenager" and i get reports about his online activites.

Recently he has tried to access Ancestry, FTF, Familysearch, FamilyHistoryOnline, Freebmd, Freereg, Freecen, Genes, Rootschat as well as some others, in fact basically any sites that i have visited and the parental controls have blocked him.

We just use the standard AOL homepage as the normal browser, the history displayed on his screen name won't include my site history (and vice versa), interestingly none of the sites appear in his history either, but i'm stumped as to how he suddenly appears to be trying to visit the same sites as i do, he couldn't possibly remember all the site addys and would never get close to guessing some of them either but the online reports show he is trying.

27-09-08, 00:30	#1 (permalink)
Glen in Tinsel Knickers Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Scottish Borders Posts: 5,076	Anyone know AOL parental controls?? Just curious, if there are different screen names and user accounts on a pc and one has parental controls how can that account suddenly try to visit several (blocked) sites that the other users visit. eg GR, Ancestry, FTF, my FTM tree site, youtube and others. By default we always surf via the AOL homepage, now we use vista i can't even work out how to pull up the history on IE (found some bits i had to block on the old XP machine). __________________ Glen http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikon_streamer/

30-09-08, 23:32	#3 (permalink)
KiteRunner Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road Posts: 7,032	Glen, sorry, I didn't really understand the question - are you saying that the parental control account tried to visit those sites and was blocked, or did manage to visit them but should have been blocked, or is it something else that you want to know? __________________ KiteRunner Information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh" (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

05-10-08, 19:09	#4 (permalink)
Glen in Tinsel Knickers Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Scottish Borders Posts: 5,076	Apologies I didn't catch the replies till today. Having followed the tip from Heather the browsing history doesn't display any results for IE, but see below re the AOL homepage reference. Stepson has a user account on the pc and also his own aol screen-name/sign in for accessing the internet, his aol settings are "young teenager" and i get reports about his online activites. Recently he has tried to access Ancestry, FTF, Familysearch, FamilyHistoryOnline, Freebmd, Freereg, Freecen, Genes, Rootschat as well as some others, in fact basically any sites that i have visited and the parental controls have blocked him. We just use the standard AOL homepage as the normal browser, the history displayed on his screen name won't include my site history (and vice versa), interestingly none of the sites appear in his history either, but i'm stumped as to how he suddenly appears to be trying to visit the same sites as i do, he couldn't possibly remember all the site addys and would never get close to guessing some of them either but the online reports show he is trying. __________________ Glen http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikon_streamer/

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30-09-08, 23:30	#2 (permalink)
Heather Positive Thinker Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Norfolk Posts: 1,260	Cant help you with the AOL thing Glen (how come no one has answered this yet??) but I can tell you on VISTA IE7 you get history by clicking on the little star icon top left hand of the page. Dont you use Firefox?