Introduction

Dr.Web Family Security for Android (hereinafter — Family Security) is an application that allows its user to protect their family in the digital world, helps to locate the protected devices, to limit access to undesirable apps, sites and information, and to secure the family against spam and fraudsters.

The application provides two user roles: family manager and family member. Family manager tracks family members’ location and manages their restrictions. Family members follow the restrictions set by their family manager.

It is recommended that for each role you use an individual device. You can log out of one role and log in to another on the same device, but some functions will be unavailable for the family manager. You cannot use both roles on the same device at the same time.

About this manual

This manual is intended to help users of devices running the Android OS to install and configure the application. It also describes its basic features.

The following symbols and text conventions are used in this guide:

Convention

Comment

warning_green

A warning about possible errors or important notes that require special attention

Anti-virus network

A new term or an emphasis on a term in descriptions

<IP-address>

Placeholders

Save

Names of buttons, windows, menu items and other program interface elements

ctrl

Names of keyboard keys

Internal storage/Android/

Names of files and folders, code examples

Cross-references to document chapters or internal hyperlinks to webpages