We incorporated a great deal of client feedback in Cyber Patrol 3.0. Inc. ChatGard enables parents to keep kids from keying in selected words, phrases or numbers while logged onto an online service such as America Online, CompuServe or Prodigy, or directly onto the Internet. Parents have the ability to stop their children from sending out their names, addresses and phone numbers online. ChatGard works by parents entering words or character strings on a ChatGard list. The ChatGard list also includes seven profanities so that children cannot send these words out online in search of sexually explicit sites or in conversations.
Parents can add additional words.
All settings are password controlled so that only the controlling adult can make modifications. Cyber Patrol was the first commercial software product to support the PICS standard. In Version 3.0, parents can use both the SafeSurf and RSACi PICS ratings systems as collateral filtering mechanisms to the CyberNOT List. CompuServe and Prodigy, which provide Cyber Patrol free, will upgrade to Version 3.0 by fall. Upgrade information from Cyber Patrol 2.x to Cyber Patrol 3.0 is available.