If I had kids, I'd probably make it so their accounts would not allow them to install anything, especially from the web.

Personally, depending upon their ages, I'd be more likely to give them unrestricted access to the web, than allow them to install stuff without supervision. I don't think censorship works in general, and with kids in particular. Better to acknowledge that pornography and similar exists and educate them about it, than pretend it doesn't I think, but that's an opinion formed without the benefit of being tested.

How do you go about stopping them from installing stuff? Without having put it into practice, something along the lines of:

That would allow them to download anything they wanted to install but require me to do the installation for them. It should also prevent a whole class of infections. There are probably loopsholes in this simplistic approach, but I've no doubts that with suitable research they can be plugged.

In fact, the sixth hit on Google with the search term "setting up windows accounts for kids" turned up this. Now I haven't vetted that in detail, but the basics are all right there.

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In reply to Re^6: Can I use Http::Proxy to intercept and deny URLs? by BrowserUk
in thread Can I use Http::Proxy to intercept and deny URLs? by slloyd

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