Parent Probe V1.0 by Terry Bullard Copyright (1995) First Release Windows 3.1 or greater Parent Probe is Child Protection Software. This program will aid any parent who is concerned about exposing their children to sexually related material that their children might already possess knowingly or unknowning. Parent Probe scans both text and binary files, regardless of their names and nature, for material which may be deemed pornographic. It is absolutely impossible for any parent, no matter what computer skills they may posses, to completely monitor what material is placed in a computer or hidden on some type of media to be used on that computer. With Parent Probe very little is kept secret and left unexposed. Parent Probe will search Hard Drives, Floppies, and CDs, for files which might contain material which you may deem unsuitable for your children. When PP is checking the drive and it locates a possible offending file it will display the file and its path to a list box located on the main screen. From that point you may investigate the file to see if it is really something you, the parent, wish to have your child exposed to. The configuration button on main screen, when activated, displays a list of words which Parent Probe will search for. These words represent the roots of almost all pornography and can be toggled on or off for the search. These words are quite offending but must be displayed so the search can be configured. The more words used in the search will cause the computer to work much harder, thus slower. So select the number of words for the search according to the time you have available. You may also change the configuration while the search is in progress and the effect will be immediate. Parent Probe will also recognize Archived and Image files as well. With the compressed nature of these files, Parent Probe will only notify you of their existence if you have selected them in the configuration. * Installation and Operation. Installation of Parent Probe isn't really required. PP is a stand alone C program that can reside about anywhere. An installation program has been included with this archive to aid you in setting up Parent Probe in its own directory and setting up a group and icon. Using the installation program... 1. Run the install.exe program that came with this archive. 2. If you don't like the suggested path, type in a new one. 3. Select the 'Begin' button. Running from any location or floppy... Simply double click on PP.exe with File Manager or better yet File Magician Note: The installation program does not change or add to any of your startup files or copy or add to anything in your Windows directory. To delete 'Parent Probe', simply delete the directory Parent Probe was installed to. * History.. I came up with the idea of Parent Probe a short while after my 15 year old niece started to get into the BBS scene. Being active with BBS'es for the last 12 years myself I pretty well knew what she would be exposed to. Then once after a few months of her being online, I got a chance to examine her computer. Boy was I shocked on how fast she had progressed and what she was interested in! According to Mom, the computer was a great babysitter but her daughter did spend to much time on it and ignored a lot more important things. Golly it wasn't to hard to guess why. Well Mom does have a tool now to help her keep tabs on her daughter a bit. After this I searched everywhere for a program that would do somewhat of the same thing as PP. I wasn't able to find anything other then programs which limit internet access etc. So I decided to release Parent Probe to see if there are other parents concerned on what their children are exposed to. If there is a fair amount of interest and support for Parent Probe I'll continue to develop the program and make it a most awesome tool in aiding parents dealing with computers and their children. Interest and Support are the key words for the continuing the program. * Program Status.. This version of Parent Probe is free to use or distribute by any means provided that not any characters are altered in PP.exe, Parent.txt, Comment.txt, Warning.txt and Install.exe. Description (file_id.diz) may be upgraded. 'Parent Probe V1.0' has been copyrighted (1995) * Upgrades and Additions With interest and support as stated above, Absolutely! * Support and Receiving Upgrades.. Protecting our children is to great of an issue to classify Parent Probe as a shareware or commerical product. It is something that is in great need now and in the future. It is also something that one man cannot take on alone without support of some kind. Therefore if you are able to support child protection software please send somewhere around $5.00 to the name and address listed below. This will allow me to make the time to continue the development of Parent Probe. If you are unable to do this, feel free to use Parent Probe for as long as you want. For you to receive the latest update of Parent Probe I must charge $3.50 to cover my costs in Shipping/Handling and disk duplication. You will receive by US Postal service the latest version of 'Parent Probe' on 3.5in floppy. Installation and instructions will be on disk. Also on disk will be the latest shareware version of File Magician, the most powerful Windows file, disk, and utilities manager ever created for Windows. If you wish just the upgrade without supporting, this is fine I understand. Times are tough and parents with children, times are really tough! Grin. * Ideas and suggestions are always welcome. Happy Parenting! Terry Bullard Personal or Business Check, M.O., Cash, Visa, Mastercard. All OK. (Check main menu of PP. Menu contains embedded encrypted msg to verify the following address) Terry Bullard 3291 Mt. View Rd. Ferndale, Wa. 98248 Online Door for Visa or MasterCard, you may call.. The Magic Land BBS 360-384-2591 P.S. I may be reached at the above BBS number or MagicianV4@Aol.Com. Sorry no voice.