The main focus areas are the effectiveness of website blocking against child-inappropriate content and the simulation of real-world usage scenarios. This includes evaluating the provision and effectiveness of tools for guardians to ensure child safety while they use modern technologies independently. The report also covers an assessment of product features such as categorical website blockage, social media control, search engine monitoring, time and duration restrictions, application control, comprehensive reporting, geolocation of the child's device, battery tracking, and dedicated YouTube protections like Safe Search and search history monitoring.

Key Findings:

• Kaspersky Safe Kids demonstrates strong performance in blocking potentially inappropriate websites, achieving an overall average block rate of 93% on Windows and 86% on Android.
• The application remains highly effective at blocking the most critical category, "Adult content," stopping 98.6% of such sites on Windows and 96.6% on Android.
• Over-blocking, indicated by falsely restricting age-appropriate content, remains low, with false-positive rates of just 8.7% on Windows and 7.9% on Android.
• Key features such as targeted URL blockage, search engine monitoring, time and duration restrictions, application control, violation reporting, geo-fencing (allowed areas), and device battery monitoring are robustly integrated. Premium-tier offerings further enhance this with advanced GPS child location, screen time scheduling, and YouTube search history monitoring.

The evaluation of Kaspersky Safe Kids highlights its sustained effectiveness in providing extensive protection across major operating systems. The application consistently demonstrates strong performance in website blocking and offers a comprehensive suite of features to ensure online child safety. While there is minor room for improvement in further minimizing the already low over-blocking rates, the overall performance remains highly commendable. Its robust capabilities reinforce its strong suitability as a modern parental control solution.

This marks the 9th participation of Kaspersky’s products in AV-TEST's Parental Control testing, and once again, the technologies meet all criteria to earn certification.

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