There are further parental controls too, with a selection of blocking tools to control what gets searched for (and what gets viewed) as well as lists of websites visited, videos watched, and apps downloaded to kids’ smartphones and tablets. Read more: 7 best computer monitors for entertainment, gaming and working from home

So if a lesson is being delivered over Zoom, then Zoom is the app your child will see. “School time” helps counteract this by managing the phone during school hours, not cutting off its internet connection, but by only allowing approved apps to run. With home-schooling becoming a regular part of family life, the temptation to slip a few minutes on a different smartphone app when they should be concentrating is huge. Then there are the features aimed at the kids. These are often the domains of the sophisticated cybercriminal, and so by alerting you if your name, email address or passwords are being passed around there, it gives you a heads up that it may be time to change your passwords or switch on two-factor authentication if you haven’t already. “Dark web monitoring” is an interesting feature, which monitors the parts of the internet not indexed by web search engines.

Norton 360 subscribers on Windows also get access to up to 75GB of cloud storage to keep essential documents or irreplaceable photos in, just in case something happens to your PC. We especially like SafeCam, which alerts you when anything attempts to access your computer’s webcam – this sort of behaviour is fine from the likes of Skype or Zoom, but an application you’ve never heard of needs to be blocked and investigated. These are features offered by many security suites, but Norton has a few unique tricks. There’s a firewall too, to monitor network traffic and block anything suspicious. Then there’s its password manager, which will generate strong, complex passwords and remember them for you, so you don’t need to even attempt to commit 16 random characters to memory.

You get a secure, anonymous VPN to keep your browsing activities private and secure, with a handy split tunnel feature that sends traffic from some apps to the VPN, and the rest to your normal internet connection. There’s more to Norton 360 than just antivirus software, however.

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