This subscription service works pretty well. They keep an up-to-date list of obnoxious Web sites and only occasionally block us from a site we want the kids to use. You can enter exceptions to any of their rules. CyberPatrol will even limit how much time your kids can spend on any one program, or on line, or on the computer at all!
But, they are definitely in it for the money. Subscriptions are per computer, and each one starts ticking the day you buy it. If you have more than one computer in the house, you will frequently have to deal with updates and renewals. If you fail to renew, it might lock that PC out of the Internet altogether until you pay up.
What's more, it is no easy matter to re-install or transfer from one PC to another. And once we spent days waiting for the central office to validate our subscription before we could use the Web again.
But, my biggest complaint is that the program tells your little tykes precisely why a site is blocked. Violence, guns, adult content, and so on. I don't want to pique their interest and dare them to find a workaround. I just want to mark certain things as off limits.