XPCOP is a parental control software for system security,
internet security, content filtering, and bandwidth monitoring.
It's very useful at the following places :
At home as a parental Control software.
At Internet Cafe / cybercafe as a billing and monitoring tool
At Educational Institutes as user management and computer security
application
At Offices for effective computer administration and control.
At Gaming Centres for enhancing user experience.
On laptops for Personal Security.
XPCOP helps protect against the dangers children face online from
offendable/explicit web site content. XPCOP provides profile based
security, so you can apply different restrictions to different users
using the same PC. You can use XPCop to restrict users from using the
computer in an undesirable manner. It allows you the administrator to
create users and configure the following aspects associated to each user
account :
- Which users can access the computer?
- For how long can they access the computer? (surf watch)
- Which users can access internet?
- Which websites can they open? (web filter or porn filter)
- Which system areas can they access? Example: block access to windows
control panel.
- Which application are they able to run.
- How much bandwidth are they allowed to use per day, per week or per
month?