Anit-SpyWare Update

The Real Dangers to Kids Online and How to Avoid Them

By Joshua F.

Finer, MBA – President, Software4Parents.com

Did you know…?

·1 out of 5 kids has been sexually solicited online

·1 out of 4 kids has been sent a picture of naked people 

or people having sex online

·that May 21, 2002 there was the first death of a child 

linked directly to an Internet Predator? 

Parents’ biggest concern about the Internet used to be 

pornography, but there is definitely a greater fear today.

You have probably taught your child not to talk to 

strangers, and in many situations, they would remember 

this. But the Internet is different.

Due to the Internet’s anonymity, strangers are talking to 

children all the time. They try to gain the child’s trust 

by having friendly conversation at first, but over time, 

their true objective of sexually soliciting the child 

becomes evident. Children and parents alike are unaware 

of this, yet this is exactly what is going