http://www.norton.com/onlinef... nice protection system for families with kids who use the Internet. Lets kids text parents for access to blocked sites. Interesting idea! - Robert Scoble from email

Finally Norton has a new product for families. I was disappointed when they ripped the family features out of NIS version 2008-2009. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

hopefully it won't be a pig like the rest of their products have been for years - Steven Hodson

I think Microsoft has had this for awhile now. - Richard Ashwell

lets just hope it works - rama mamuaya

interesting idea from a company that was starting to become irrelevant IMHO. I lost a lot of trust in companies like Norton and McAfee, among others, when they started hooking their software so deep into the OS that nothing short of diving into the windows registry to remove it was needed. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Richard, Microsoft is discontinuing their One Care product and replacing it with a free antivirus product (codename "Morrow") late in 2009. EDIT: though I'm not sure if this covers the "Family Safety" product: http://download.live.com/familys... - Karim

i will defend norton with NIS 2009. Works fine, not a hog, and Norton Removal Tool does the trick if you need to get rid of all things Norton. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Stopped using or recommending Norton years ago. I think they are cruising on pre-installs and legacies. When simple trojans (Antivirus2009) constantly defeat\disable Norton I can't see allowing it to become my family's online protector. - Alyx

Sad though that Norton AV Gamer Edition 2009 wont work fine with Windows 7 - Imran Hussain

I hope this is a bit more secure than MS' Family Safety - if not, anybody (child or otherwise) who knows how to uninstall a program can surf the web uninhibited! - Chris Poirier

Chris, hopefully you're not setting up your kids with Administrator accounts. ;-) - Karim

Karim: Often times with Windows software you don't have a choice. :-( - Patrick Pushor

Patrick, examples? I don't have kids so I'm ignorant of this. The last time I helped someone with kids where the kids "needed" Adminstrator rights, it was because the kids wanted to install some malware :-D - Karim

Karim, that's assuming of course the user who installed the program was technologically inclined enough to a.) set his or her children up with a limited account, and b.) know the difference between the two. You'd be surprised how many people overlook this. Personally, I think a parent's credentials required on uninstall - just as there is in order to change any other setting in the program. - Chris Poirier

Chris, new accounts are limited by default, I thought -- and in any event, the New User Account wizard pretty much explains the differences between the two kinds of accounts in plain language. You get no argument from me on the people just being generally stupid point, though :-D - Karim