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Even though she set her son's email address at a 'kid' level so that it wouldn't received pornography or spam, he received it anyway. After that, Amy tried to report the email to AOL but never received any sort of response. Here's what you had to say to Amy's situation.... "Donna~ Amy wrote to you about a problem with porn site links making it through to her kids' AOL email accounts. Although I don't know if there's anything she can do to stop those from getting through because of AOL's proprietary policies (or the lack thereof), she can either purchase or download (also a purchase) software or a monthly subscription to something like "Net Nanny." Even if her children get those kinds of emails, "net guardian" types of software or services will prevent them from being able to access that trash. Linda" "Donna, I don't use AOL but, on every Internet there is parental controls that you can filter out what you don't want to see. that doesn't always work. I have kids on the computor also. My advice is that if you don't know the person Don't open it up. thats what i have had to do due to the same situation on my computor. Hope this gives you some help. Sam" "Donna, Amy is receiving what is known as 'spam' - unfortunately there is not alot you can do about it, and now that she has opened the email the spammer will know the item has been read and it is a valid email - so expect more. On AOL you can forward the message to TOSSPAM where someone supposedly looks at it. If it originated from AOL then the spammer is violating the terms of service agreement. Unfortunately that mailbox seems to be full most of the time. For now, if it gets worse, my suggestion would be to delete that screen name and create a new one. Also, PC Magazine had a feature on Spam, perhaps she can find that issue, it was fairly recent, if not the most recent. And instead of emailing AOL, use the phone (yes I put mine back on LOL) and talk to a real person. regards - Bruce" "I have two children that I have setup an AOL screen name for and have had great success with it. I also have a rule that they cannot view sites or read emails without me being there even though the controls are set. If you have AOL 8.0, they have improved their controls for children of all ages. They have chat controls, IM controls, email controls and website controls. What I have set for my kids (as an example) is: for Web Browsing I selected Kids Only, for Instant Messaging I selected full access, for E-mail I have custom controls and for Chat I have selected no access. Now the E-mail you can customize so that they: Get all email Get email from just AOL members and block others List the email addresses you want them to receive email from and block all others Get email from all AOL members and only certain domains that you list Get email from only listed AOL members and certain domains You can block all email You go to the master screen name and select parental controls to do this. I am surprised AOL hasn't taken what happened to you more seriously. The reason I say this is because one day my son, who is 9, got on a kids message board and read a problem a girl was having. He offered to give her advice and gave contact information. AOL immediately shut down the account so nobody could log in on any screen name. When I tried to logon to my account, I got a popup telling me to call AOL at a certain number because there is a problem they needed to discuss with me. I called the number and talked to the representative and they told me what happened. They unlocked my account and when I logged on, I found an email in my inbox from AOL telling me again what I already learned on the phone and a copy of my son's message was sent to me also. Not only did I get that email, all the other master names got it also. To say the least, my son got a talking to and we explained why what he did was not wise. So I was impressed with the way AOL handled that whole situation. I hope this information helps and I hope AOL takes action because that is disappointing. I went with AOL BECAUSE of the protection offered for my children. I hope they aren't starting to slack off now. Thanks Chele :)" Yes, Chele, let's hope that AOL keeps up security. I wish we could rid. Unsolicited email once and for all. Hope this helps you, Amy. Write us with any details! Have a great day and Happy Valentines Day!!! Donna [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- To EMAIL Donna: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Turn your computer into a Money Machine! 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