The Interaction between the Child Protection Settings of Computers and User Accounts

Child Protection can be set for computers and for user accounts.
For example, if three user accounts are set up on your computer, you can configure four Child Protection settings: one for the computer and one for each user account.

  • If Child Protection is configured for a user account, this Child Protection setting will be applied.
  • If no Child Protection setting is configured for a user account, then the Child Protection setting configured for the computer will be applied.
  • If no Child Protection is configured for the user account or the computer, then the setting All others may use the Internet without restriction applies. If you have enabled this setting, this computer can be used to surf the Internet without any restrictions. If you have not enabled this setting, this computer can not be used to access the Internet.
  • User accounts that are not recognized by the FRITZ!Box are treated as user accounts without any Child Protection configured.

Example

  1. You have a computer with the user accounts A and B.
  2. You have configured Child Protection for the computer and enabled this feature.
  3. You also have configured an individual Child Protection setting for user account A and enabled this feature.
  4. No individual Child Protection setting was configured for user account B.
  5. You have enabled the setting "All others may use the Internet without restriction".
  6. You have a second computer with the user accounts C and D.
  7. No Child Protection settings have been configured for the second computer and the user accounts C and D.

The Child Protection settings will now have the following effect:

  • For user account A, the Child Protection configured for this account always applies. The Child Protection configured for the computer has no effect on user account A.
  • For user account B, the Child Protection configured for the computer applies, as in the FRITZ!Box no individual Child Protection was configured for user account B.
  • For the user accounts C and D on the second computer, the setting made in the "Child Protection" menu applies:
  • :
    "Internet use is unrestricted for computers with Child Protection disabled."
    or
    "Internet use is blocked for computers with Child Protection disabled."