By Josh Simeone                                                                                             J.Simeone@krdo.com

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COLORADO SPRINGS - It's tough protecting your kids from the dangers of the Internet - so what do you do when your kids won't listen to your warnings?

Colorado Springs Police are involved in an ongoing Internet Crimes Against Children sweep that's led to more than a dozen arrests thus far.

Police recommend talking with your kids about the dangers of the Internet. But when that doesn't work - there's another option for you to turn to.

There are dozens of Internet monitoring software programs available for you to buy. NEWSCHANNEL 13 put one of the programs, "PC Pandora" from Pandora Corporation, to the test.

"We like to consider ourselves Internet safety advocates with a very, very useful tool," Ken Shallcross, of Pandora Corporation, says. Shallcross responded to a story NEWSCHANNEL 13 aired Thursday about the challenges facing investigators with the Internet Crimes Against Children unit in Colorado Springs.

"PC Pandora" works much like "TiVo" for your T.V. or a D.V.R. by recording literally everything that is logged onto, typed or searched on your computer.

"It records everything your child does."

We installed "PC Pandora" on a newsroom computer and put the software to the test. For a little more than seven hours, we read emails, chatted with friends over a popular social website and surfed the web to simulate what a child might do on a home computer.

While we surfed, we periodically checked in with "PC Pandora" to see what it was recording and how much of it was being recorded.

We found the program recorded everything, from our online chats, to every single action we made on the computer, including programs that did not use the Internet. There was even an option to print out or have an online chat conversation emailed to another computer.

Other monitoring software programs work the same way, recording what your child is doing on the computer the entire time he or she is online.

Sgt. Bill Dehart with the Colorado Internet Crimes Against Children task force doesn't recommend any one software-monitoring program - but he does say they are one way to keep your kids safe. However, police say monitoring software alone is not enough to protect your family.

"A piece of software does not take the place of involvement," Sgt. Dehart says.

Police say it's critical to first talk with your children - warn them about the dangers of Internet predators, just as you would ask where your child is going to hang out, as where they are surfing the web and who they are chatting with online.

"It's getting that human component, talking to the humans involved in it, telling them right from wrong, telling them the things that can occur out there."

Internet monitoring software can be found at most electronics stories that sell computer software programs. You can also find the software online.

Police recommend you find the right program for you by reading customer reviews and doing your research before you purchase.

Pandora Corporation recommends you find a monitoring program that doesn't just "filter" various websites, but allows you to see the website your child has browsed.

For more information on how to protect your family from the dangers of the Internet, click here to be taken to the Colorado Internet Crimes Against Children website.

For more information and safety tips from Pandora Corporation or to try out "PC Pandora," click here to be taken the company's website.