The Parental Controls feature blocks websites containing content unsuitable for children or teenagers, based on the level of protection that you choose.
To use the Parental Control feature of Mobile Security, follow the steps below:
- Open the Trend Micro Mobile Security App.
- Go to the Parental Controls toggle switch.
- Tap Parental Controls > Website Filter.
- Enable or disable Parental Controls.
- Enable Parental Controls: Drag the slider to the right.
- Disable Parental Controls: Drag the slider to the left.
- Type your Trend Micro account password when necessary.
You must set up or sign-in to your Trend Micro account before using Parental Controls.
To enable or adjust the Protection Level, follow the steps below:
- Open the Trend Micro Mobile Security App.
- Go to Protection Level Settings.
- Tap Parental Controls > Website Filter.
- Tap the circle on top of the protection that you want to use.
- Child
- Pre-teen
- Teen
- When necessary, type your Trend Micro account password again, then tap OK. After providing your password once, you will not need to give it again until you close, then reopen Parental Controls.
Refer to the table below for the website types the Parental Controls feature blocks for each protection level:
|
Website Type
|
Child
|
Pre-Teen
|
Teen
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Adult
|
o
|
o
|
|
|
Adult / Mature Content
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
|
Alcohol / Tobacco
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
|
Auctions
|
o
|
o
|
|
|
Blogs / Web Communications
|
o
|
||
|
Chat / Instant Messaging
|
o
|
||
|
Cult / Occult
|
o
|
o
|
|
|
Email
|
o
|
||
|
Gambling
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
|
Games
|
o
|
||
|
Hacking
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
|
Illegal / Questionable
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
|
Illegal Drugs
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
|
Intimate Apparel / Swimsuit
|
o
|
o
|
|
|
Newsgroups
|
o
|
||
|
Nudity
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
|
Peer-to-Peer
|
o
|
||
|
Personal Network Storage / File Download Servers
|
o
|
||
|
Personals / Dating
|
o
|
o
|
|
|
Photo Searches
|
o
|
||
|
Pornography
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
|
Sex Education
|
o
|
o
|
|
|
Shopping
|
o
|
||
|
Social Networking
|
o
|
o
|
|
|
Software Downloads
|
o
|
||
|
Sport Hunting and Gun Clubs
|
o
|
o
|
|
|
Streaming Media / MP3
|
o
|
||
|
Tasteless
|
o
|
||
|
Violence / Hate / Racism
|
o
|
o
|
o
|
|
Weapons / Military
|
o
|
o
|
|
|
Web Advertisements
|
o
|
Filtering List helps you filter unwanted websites with the following lists:
- The Blocked List stores the addresses of websites that you want to block in addition to those already blocked by the level of protection that you chose.
- The Approved List stores addresses of websites that will not be blocked, even if the level of protection that you chose would normally block them.
To add a website to the filtering list:
- Open the Trend Micro Mobile Security App.
- Open Blocked List or Approved List.
- Tap Parental Controls > Website Filter > Blocked List or Approved List.
Use proper wildcarding to block website subpages. For example, to block or approve Facebook and all its subpages (e.g. m.facebook.com or facebook.com/yourprofile), add http*://*.facebook.com/*.
- Tap Add.
- Type your Trend Micro account password, then tap OK.
- Type the name and address of the website.
- Tap Save.
To edit a website on the filtering list:
- Open the Trend Micro Mobile Security App.
- Open Blocked List or Approved List.
- Tap Parental Controls > Website Filter > Blocked List.
- Tap and hold the name of the website you want to edit.
- Tap the Menu icon at the top (three vertical dots), then tap Edit.
- When necessary, type your Trend Micro account password and tap OK.
- Edit the name and address of the website.
- Tap Save.
To delete a website on the filtering list:
- Open the Trend Micro Mobile Security App.
- Open Blocked List or Approved List.
- For Mobile Security version 10.0/11.0/12.0: Tap Parental Controls > Website Filter > Blocked List or Approved List.
- For Mobile Security version 7.0: Tap Safe Surfing > Parental Controls > Blocked List or Approved List.
- Do either of the following:
- To select and delete records:
- Tap and hold the websites (one at a time) that you want to delete.
- Tap the Delete icon (trash can) at the top, then tap Delete.
- To delete all of the websites:
- Tap the Delete icon (trash can) at the top.
- Tap Delete All.
- Tap OK.
- To select and delete records:
- When necessary, type your Trend Micro account password, then tap OK.
To block adult websites, follow the steps below:
- Open the Trend Micro Mobile Security App.
- Tap Parental Controls > Website Filter.
- Toggle the switch to the right to enable the Website Filter.
If prompted, enable the permissions for Mobile Security.
- Do either of the following:
- Option 1: Set the Protection Level to Child or Pre-teen.
- Tap the protection level to Child or Pre-teen to automatically block adult websites.
- Option 2: Manually add the adult website/s in the Blocked List.
- Tap Blocked List > Add.
- Type the website name and URL that you want to block.
- Tap Save.
If prompted, type your Trend Micro account password.
- Option 1: Set the Protection Level to Child or Pre-teen.
To change the Lock Settings, follow the steps below:
- Open the Trend Micro Mobile Security App.
- Tap Parental Controls.
- Provide your Parental Controls password.
- At the upper right corner, tap the Lock icon.
- Select your preferred lock settings.
- Trend Micro Password
- Pattern
- 4-digit PIN
- Fingerprint (for devices with built-in Fingerprint sensor only)
- Set up your preferred lock settings.
