1. Set them up with managed accounts 2. Use parental controls to stop them from installing things 3. Set the default browser to Safari which works better with Parental Controls 4. Try using the Parental Controls automated web filter. It's pretty good and not too stringent. 5. TALK to your kids about the importance of NOT simply clicking indiscriminately on random stuff.
the OSX parental controls break Chrome - or did when they were on - and were overly intrusive - if you're typing in the password every 10 mins you might as well not have one - the parental controls on router don't work with HTTPS
what I need is Google Account / Chrome setup that is age aware and:
1. filters search results on age of user
2. downranks sites that prompt to alter configs or force email address to run a game
3. enforces strict content (not just on results, but also on what Chrome will render)
4. locks down Chrome config
5. filters gmail more aggressively than it would for an adult
6. notifies adult user on suspicious activity (not reports sites visited etc. but reports if something serious happens)
0. Use Safari not Chrome
5. Use Mail.app rather than the Gmail web interface. Parental controls then let you whitelist addresses that the kids can use e-mail with you can set it up so that if they ask t e-mail someone new, they can request it and you'll get an 'allow/deny pop up.
6. Set up a free OpenDNS account for use on your kids machines and set up a profile for use with them (you can adjust strictness and alerts you want to receive).
7. Once again - talk to your kids. Explain that if they click on something that requests this kind of thing, they are not to run it. Running it will result in reduced computer time and privileges. Ultimately technology can only help you parent, it cannot do it for you.
it's completely and utterly broken
I never had a single piece of malware on any of these machines, ever. I do see lots of SSH login attempts to the servers (in vain, naturally) and quite a bit of exploit scanning for vulnerable services but the amount of successful intrusion attempts, whether on client or server, is zero.
Maybe you should to try this solution for your children?
Has the original meaning of the word been lost?
every month I have to go in and clean it up - Malwarebytes gets rid of most of the browser trub - to the point Chrome is usable again
they are casual browsers - something is very wrong when kids can render a Chrome install unusable after an hour or so of clicking flashy things