Many parents have children who are using the Internet at school and at home.
A California survey conducted in the fall of 97 found that eighty-eight percent of parents polled said they monitored their children s use of the Internet, and seventy percent said they could use some help in screening content. The Learning Company has created its most popular Internet filtering software, Cyber Patrol, for retail sale in stores nationwide. The Cyber Patrol 4.0 that parents will find on store shelves provides them with a list of inappropriate sites created by a team of researchers comprised of parents and teachers. This list is updated daily, assuring even greater protection in a Web environment that changes daily. A variety of technical improvements provides more precision in screening of content, increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the software and allows Cyber Patrol s list of more than 50,000 inappropriate sites to be downloaded in under thirty seconds.