Net Nanny for
Android with
App Manager
Features Overview
and Demo
Instructions
Download Net Nanny for Android
to your device
To help you demo Net Nanny and view all the features of both the Administrator
and User experience, we've created this complete demo walk-through.
To begin your demo, you must first download and install the Net Nanny for
Android app on your Android device.
1. To download the app, go to the Google Play market on your device and
search for Net Nanny in the search bar. Click “Install”.
2. Once the installation is complete, tap “Open”.
Getting Started:
Create an Account or Log In
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When Net Nanny starts, you must first set up
and register your device with an account. Select
“Continue”.
On the Log In page, select “Need to create an
account?” to create your own Net Nanny
account. Remember your email and password
to make future changes to your Net Nanny
settings.
You will then receive an email to verify your
email address. Once you have verified your
email address, select “Enter a Redemption
Code”. Enter the redemption code provided to
you for your complementary copy of Net Nanny
mobile for Android, then select “Submit”
Getting Started:
Select or Create Profile
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Now you must select or create the user profile you wish to protect on this
device. An admin user profile has already been created for you; however,
this user profile defaults to the “adult” profile settings and has very few
restrictions; it should not be used for a child or teen.
To effectively see all the filtering and protection capabilities of Net Nanny
for Android, enter a new Username in the “Create User” box, then select
“Teen”, “Pre-Teen” or “Child” or from the “Profile” drop-down. Then click
“Link” (you can change this later.)
Within 30 seconds, Net Nanny will finalize the installation process on the
device.
Your Android device is now protected with the selected filtering profile.
Now let’s explore the User experience on the device...
User Experience:
Dynamic Contextual Analysis
• As Net Nanny filters the web, it uses our smart engine to find all
content that falls into any one of 18 predefined categories. That
content is then Blocked (red), Warned (yellow) or Allowed (green),
depending on the user profile or your custom settings.
• Net Nanny’s custom engine filters content in real time, so even
brand-new Internet pages will be filtered (there are over 150,000
new pages each day!).
• To see an example of our dynamic analysis, consider the phrase
“Colt 45”. Net Nanny categorizes this phrase in three ways:
weapons, alcohol and nothing (for the TV show by that name).
– Surf to www.wikipedia.com
– Type “Colt 45”
– The resulting web page is now blocked by Net Nanny.
User Experience:
Circumvention
1. Net Nanny blocks other browsers from launching to prevent the user from
avoiding the filter.
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On the device, select any Internet browser icon (other than Net Nanny). A block screen will
appear telling the user that the application has been blocked.
An “Allow” button at the bottom is an option to permit this browser; the administrator’s
credentials are required for this override.
2. Net Nanny prevents the user from uninstalling the Net Nanny browser.
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From the “Settings” screen, select “Applications”, then “Manage Applications”, then select the
Net Nanny application.
In order to uninstall or force-stop Net Nanny, administrator’s credentials are required.
Net Nanny installs itself as a local device administrator. This account must be removed to
uninstall Net Nanny.
3. Net Nanny prevents the user from killing the Net Nanny app (running
process).
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From the “Settings” screen, select “Applications”, then “Running Services”.
In order to disable Net Nanny, administrator’s credentials are required.
4. Net Nanny enforces SafeSearch “Strict” search engine settings, regardless
of the search engine’s settings.
User Experience:
Blocks
1. Open Net Nanny. Type www.playboy.com in the URL
bar.
2. This page will be blocked and the user sees a “Page
Blocked” screen. Select the + button to view the exact
page blocked.
3. Select “Go Back” at the bottom of the screen to
navigate away from the blocked page.
User Experience:
Recategorization
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An administrator can grant temporary access to a website or can modify
the categorization of a website.
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Once a page has been blocked, an alert appears in the notifications bar at the top. Pull
down notifications; select the Net Nanny alert to “Temporarily allow access” or “Change how
this website is treated”.
Select “Temporarily allow access”; the administrator types in their credentials to allow
access to this site for the duration of this session.
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Currently, the user must notify the administrator of the block and the administrator must allow the temporary override on
the device. In future, the user will be able to send a “request override” notice from inside the browser.
Alternatively, select “Change how this website is treated”. The administrator chooses to
“Adjust Category Exceptions” or “Add to Custom Categories”. In both cases, administrator
credentials are required for the override.
2. The “Adjust Category Exceptions” feature allows an administrator to permit
a certain category for specific domains, such as allowing the ‘alcohol’
category on Wikipedia for research, but otherwise blocking ‘alcohol’
elsewhere on the web.
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In future, the user will be able to request a permanent category change, which the
administrator can manage from the web console.
User Experience:
Warns
1. Open Net Nanny. Type “ak47” in the URL bar.
2. The user will be warned that this page contains content
relating to the category “Weapons”. At the bottom of
the screen, the user may choose to Continue to the
page, or Go Back.
– In future, administrators see all blocked and warned activity by
user in the admin console.
Now let’s look at things from the perspective of an Administrator…
The Administrator Experience: Admin Console, Create
Users, Customize User Settings, Create Custom Categories
Administrative Web Console
• The administrative web console for Net Nanny for Android allows you to centrally (and
remotely) manage all the users and all the devices associated with your Net Nanny
mobile family account. To easily navigate the admin console, we recommend that
you do this portion of the demo from a large-screen device, such as a tablet or laptop.
• To access the admin console, go to http://admin.netnanny.com. (The console can
also be accessed at any time from the “Log In” button on www.netnanny.com.)
• Current features on the admin console include adding or deleting users, changing or
customizing filtering settings for a user, deleting devices, reassigning devices and
viewing summary reports. Future features coming soon include drill-down reports,
custom email notifications and remote device management tools.
• The admin console is designed to support as many users as you wish. Currently the
admin console supports only Android devices. In the future, all Net Nanny-protected
devices will be managed here.
The “Teen” profile includes preset blocked, warned and allowed categories. Let’s
customize this profile to show you some valuable administrator options.
Administrator Experience:
Home Screen
1. Log in to the admin console http://admin.netnanny.com
using the email and password you created during the
install process.
2. The Home screen is your dashboard for activity on the
devices in your account. It includes “Alerts” (status
information about devices or licenses in your account),
a bar chart of total sites blocked, overridden or warned,
a pie chart of all blocked or warned categories and a list
of the top sites that were blocked or warned.
– Future releases will offer more extensive drill-down reporting
capabilities.
Administrator Experience:
Customize User Settings
Select “Users” from the top navigation.
If you followed the previous instructions, you should see two user profile
“cards”, yours and the new Teen profile you created.
Select the Teen profile by clicking on the User card, or click the gear and
select “Edit User”.
Next to the Teen profile card, you will see 18 green (allow), yellow (warn)
and red (block) boxes under the heading “Default Categories”. These are
Net Nanny’s pre-established content categories. To change the settings
for the Teen profile for any of these categories, simply click on the
category to change its color. Click “Save” to save these setting changes.
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Note: Profanity Masking is a special category that has a fourth choice: masking. This
allows the page to appear with swear words masked by characters ($%&#).
“Custom Categories” are lists that you create and manage in the
“Overrides” section of the admin console. We’ll cover those separately.
Administrator Experience:
Manage User Devices
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Select the “Devices” tab next to “Categories”.
The device you linked to the Teen user should appear to the right
of the card.
– You may have many devices linked to a single user, but only one user
can be linked to a device at a time.
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Frequently asked: “How can I change the filtering settings on my
device in order to give it to my child to play with?”
– Click on the “Devices” tab in the admin console and select the desired
device.
– Change the user by selecting from the list of Registered Users in the
drop-down menu.
– Click “Save”.
Administrator Experience:
Custom Categories & Overrides
In the “Overrides” tab, administrators can create, edit and delete their own lists of web
pages to be blocked, warned or allowed. Net Nanny has created two example custom
categories, “Objectionable Websites” and “Safe Websites”. These can be edited or deleted.
IMPORTANT: New custom categories are pre-set to “Allow” for all users.
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Let’s say you wish to separately manage content that is used for your child’s school
research. In the Overrides tab, under “Custom Categories”, select “Create Category.”
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Name the Category “Reference Sites”. Add a description if you like.
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Under the heading “Users this category applies to”, deselect “All Users”, click “Select
Users”, and choose your new Teen profile from the drop-down menu. The category is
set to “Allow” as default. As this is a set of web pages we wish to permit for research,
we will leave it green.
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Under the “Websites” heading, add the following URLs: www.wikipedia.com, www.mw.com and www.britannica.com, and click “Save”.
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With this custom category setting, your Teen will not be blocked in future for any content on any
of those sites, even if they might normally fall into one of the pre-set categories.
User Experience:
New!
App Management
New to Net Nanny for Android version 2.0 is a complete mobile “App Manager.”
This utility lets the Administrator see which Apps are installed on the mobile device
and block or allow Apps based on preference and need.
IMPORTANT: By default all Apps are allowed, Administrators can easily change the
default action to “blocked” if so desired.
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To access the “App Manager”, select “User” from the top navigation, then
select the User Card that represents the Net Nanny user you want to
manage.
This page will show the “Categories” of allowed and blocked content. To
manage the Apps, simply select “Apps” immediately right of “Categories.”
This page shows all Apps installed on the mobile device. To change the
action for an App simply select it. The color and associated action will
change. Allowed Apps are green and blocked Apps are red. After changing
any settings remember to select “Save” in the upper left hand corner of the
web page.
You can also change the way newly installed Apps are treated by changing
the drop down at the top of the page where it states “Newly installed apps
should be” and change this from allowed to blocked.
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Important, changes will take effect within 30 seconds on the associated mobile device.
Thank you!
Please contact us with any questions or
comments:
www.netnanny.com
1-801-508-3600
marketing@netnanny.com