Contents
- Perform common tasks
- Open and quit the application
- Add your children's details to Kaspersky Safe Kids
- Turn on monitoring of your child
- Pause and resume Kaspersky Safe Kids
- Turn off monitoring of your child
- Allow a website or an application on a child's request
- Add computer time on a child's request
- Enable or disable tracing
- Update Kaspersky Safe Kids
Open and quit the application
After installation, the application starts running in the background. Later, the application starts when the operating system starts.
Open the application to set up Kaspersky Safe Kids for your child, change the computer account assigned to your child, pause Kaspersky Safe Kids, or stop the application.
Note: If you quit Kaspersky Safe Kids, the application continues to monitor your child in the background.
Page topAdd your children's details to Kaspersky Safe Kids
You can add your children's details to Kaspersky Safe Kids in the application or on My Kaspersky.
Add your children's details to Kaspersky Safe Kids
Page topTurn on monitoring of your child
You can turn on monitoring of your child on a selected computer account after you add the child's details to Kaspersky Safe Kids.
Turn on monitoring of your child
Page topPause and resume Kaspersky Safe Kids
You can pause Kaspersky Safe Kids for a specified period of time. When you pause Kaspersky Safe Kids, all restrictions are ignored. The child can visit forbidden websites, use forbidden applications, and spend an unlimited amount of time on the computer.
The application resumes automatically when the time you specified is over.
You can only pause Kaspersky Safe Kids on your child's computer account. Kaspersky Safe Kids can't be paused from a parent's computer account or remotely from another computer.
You can resume Kaspersky Safe Kids manually without waiting for the specified period to elapse.
Page topTurn off monitoring of your child
If you don't want Kaspersky Safe Kids to monitor the computer account of your child anymore, you can turn off the monitoring.
Turn off monitoring of your child
Page topAllow a website or an application on a child's request
The child can request permission to visit a forbidden website or use a forbidden application. This feature lets you adjust Kaspersky Safe Kids settings on the go as needed.
How it works
When your child tries to open a forbidden website or application, Kaspersky Safe Kids blocks it and displays a notification. Your child can click Ask for Permission to request access to the forbidden website or application. The request is automatically displayed on My Kaspersky and on your smartphone or tablet with Kaspersky Safe Kids installed.
You communicate your decision to your child using the Allow or Decline buttons. Your decision is automatically displayed on your child's computer.
Automatic changes to Kaspersky Safe Kids settings
Approved websites and applications are automatically added to the exclusion list and thereafter become allowed for your child. If you wish to change your decision, you can remove a website or application from the exclusion list. For more details, see My Kaspersky help.
Page topAdd computer time on a child's request
Your child can request additional computer time in Kaspersky Safe Kids. This feature lets you remotely adjust Kaspersky Safe Kids settings as needed.
How it works
A few minutes before your child reaches the daily limit on computer time, Kaspersky Safe Kids provides a notification to your child about the approaching break. In the main application window, your child can click Request More Time to request additional computer time. The requests are displayed on My Kaspersky and on your smartphone or tablet with Kaspersky Safe Kids installed.
You communicate your decision to your child using the Allow or Decline buttons. Your decision is automatically displayed on your child's computer.
The weekly schedule is not changed.
Page topEnable or disable tracing
Tracing is a way to record detailed information about the application's activity. Kaspersky Technical Support specialists use trace files to troubleshoot issues. You can enable application event logging to create trace files and send them to Technical Support if requested. By default, application event logging is disabled.
Enable logging of data to trace files
Disable logging of data to trace files
Important: Turn on tracing only when a Technical Support specialist asks you to do so.
Page topUpdate Kaspersky Safe Kids
A Kaspersky Safe Kids update fixes bugs, adds new features, and improves the performance of existing features.
Kaspersky Safe Kids checks update server once a week for a new version of application. If a new version is available, Kaspersky Safe Kids shows a notification.
If you update the premium version of Kaspersky Safe Kids, you continue to use the premium version of the application after the update.
Note: If the End User License Agreement changes in connection with an update of Kaspersky Safe Kids, you must accept them before you can install the new version of the application.
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