Overview

Gargoyle Product Comparison

Compare With Other Products

User Based, and Hybrid User- & Service Based Products

• Case-by-Cased Comparison Results

• Gargoyle's Solution Advantages*

Service-Based Products

• Case-by-Case Comparison Results

• Product and Solution Comparison

Gargoyle's Solution Advantages *

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Gargoyle^® Product Comparison
Currently, there are some software products and services available to parents.  The following table presents a comparison among our products.  

Notes: 

• The Red Cells in above table indicate the very unavailable features.
• The Green cells in above table indicate the available features. 
• The Dark Green cells in above table indicate the Best Recommended Products.

Compare With Other Products
It is critical to provide a product comparison between these solutions or services and our products.  We used the most critical metrics for our comparison analysis such as security, reliability, confidentiality, privacy, and ease of use, scalability, maintainability, visibility, and control factors.  The full results are presented in the following tables.   

After detailed industry reviews, like many of our customers, we have concluded that only Gargoyle^TM GateKeeper Systems have adequately addressed the most critical elements of a successful 'Parental Control System.'  

The Gargoyle^TM GateKeeper is the only product in the market that is fully installed on the user computers.  It requires no external dependencies on any services.  It provides the best tools, and systems to parents and businesses.  The use of proprietary technologies allows maximum efficiencies with the most accurate results.  

The Gargoyle^TM products provide the highest privacy and security protection, the best performance, and unbeatable processing speed.  In addition, its one time low cost price tag provides one of the best investments for families.       

User Based, and Hybrid User-Service Based Products
Currently, there are several products on the market that provide filtering and/or monitoring features to families.  Generally, these systems do not provide adequate user privacy and protection.  They require some sorts of service dependencies with monthly charges.  Therefore, the users may not be forced to bounce back from one service provider to another one.  In addition, their low level of user personalization is another reason why they have been unpopular.  The following table provides the comparison metrics for the major 'Parental Control Systems' in the market.  

Case-by-Case Comparison Results
We invite parents to examine these results carefully, and then decide on the product that fits well with their needs.  The table clearly shows the advantages of our system in a number of critical areas.  

Exception: We have identified the 'Bsafe' products to fit under user-service products.    

	CyberSitter	Cyberpatrol	InterGO	Surfwatch	NetNanny	Gargoyle	Internet in a Box for Kids
Easy to Install	Harder	Average	Easy	Easy	Harder	Easy	Average
Blocks by Site	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Blocks by File Type	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Blocks Newsgroups by Type	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA
Blocks Games and Programs	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	NA
Logs Access Attempts	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Shuts Down Offending Applications	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Informs User Of Block	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	NA
Automatic Update Service	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Complete Access Solution	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Limits Operation Time in Hours	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Supports User Defined Blocks	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Supports SafeSurf Standard	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Human and Crawler site analysis	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Available Monitoring Tools	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	NA
User Profile Privacy	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
System Information Protection	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Spyware, Hijacker, Intrusion Protection	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Popup, Script Lang. Blocker	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
User  Privacy, and Information Shield	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Accuracy	Medium - Good	Medium - Good	Medium	Medium	Medium	100% - The Only one in this Industry	Medium

Notes: 

• The Red Cells in above table indicate the very undesirable values.
• The Brown cells in above table indicate the acceptable values.
• The Green cells in above table indicate the good values. 
• The Dark Green cells in above table indicate the Best values.            

Gargoyle's Solution Advantages
The above table presents the Gargoyle's Solution advantages in the Dark Green Column.  Further, we have concluded that other systems do not provide the adequate protection for business, families and children.  Some of our findings are such as:

User Profile Privacy.  Some systems may violate the users' privacy.  Only Gargoyle provides full user profile privacy.  This will stop ISPs or other third parties, from storing users' information to protect it from possibly misuse.  Gargoyle stops ISPs from sharing such information with other agencies.  Therefore, Gargoyle protects children's profiles and accounts' personalization against violations.  

User Confidential Information.  Some systems may exchange the user information stored on the family computers.  Only Gargoyle provides the most complete user and system information encryption.  All the user personalization attributes and data, including all the Gargoyle system information are encrypted, and can not be disclosed without parents' permission.  This means that the encrypted data are not recognizable by other applications, and they are meaningless without using Gargoyle Application.   In addition, Gargoyle will protect user confidential information against intruders, and Spyware software.  Gargoyle fully protects user computer against local, and remote intruders. 

Internet Security Management Tools.  Only Gargoyle GateKeeper provides a wide range of protecting tools for user identity, information, and access control.  Only Gargoyle provides the most complete security and privacy protection tools.   

Optional Automated Updates.  No updates, or other activities should be performed without parental permission. It is during such updates that the ISPs gain access to much sensitive information on the user computers.  There are occasions when the ISPs may access other user information for other marketing purposes.    

Gargoyle^TM GateKeeper System provides automated list updates.  All other product updates may be performed explicitly.  This will ensure family privacy and information protection beyond the ISPs standards.  

Flexibility.  No application should require external dependencies on other service-based resources in order to function properly.  The problem may become serious when a service provider becomes bankrupt, or simply stops supporting a product.  In opposite, Gargoyle works regardless of the types of the Internet access, ISP, Browser, or Operating Systems.  The Gargoyle^TM GateKeeper systems will never stop protecting families under any conditions.  Once it is installed, it will be functional indefinitely.  Its rich designs allow a last longing performance regardless of the version, and models.  For some minimal fees, multiple updates are also available.   

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Service-Based Products
These solutions are, however, available on a service basis, or through specific Internet access types.  In addition, they are expensive, provide inadequate protection against many severe Internet threats, and worst--they expose the identities of families and other confidential information to marketers, including the porn industry.  There is thus an urgent need for a product that can solve all these problems and assist parents in protecting their children.  

Case-by-Case Comparison Results
By a comprehensive comparison of the best Service-Based filtering technologies and parental control systems on the market, it is evident that Gargoyle^TM GateKeeper has set a new industry standard.  We presented the similar results for the 'Bsafe", and the 'SurfControl' in the same column. 

Notes: 

• The Red Cells in above table indicate the very undesirable values.
• The Brown cells in above table indicate the acceptable values.
• The Green cells in above table indicate the good values. 
• The Dark Green cells in above table indicate the Best values.         

Product and Solution Comparison

The following chart provides a full case-by-case comparison among some of the major players in the industry.  Each of these products represents a special class.  For example, the AOL may also represent the MSN services, while 'SurfControl' may represent 'Bsafe'.  

Gargoyle's Solution Advantages. The following table presents our solution's strategic advantages.

 

Gargoyle Strategic Advantages
Privacy & Confidentiality	fully installed on the user computers Encrypted User Information, and Identity at the home computers Protects user information Protects computer file system and private documents Protects Family Information Protects email privacy Does not depend on external services for daily operations Account lists may be shared among approved users  Account lists may be updated by parents, or through the free automated list updates.
Customization	Per user accounts Per group Programmable 24X7 Services Shuts down the web access during programmable  hours
Control	Available at all times - user may not bypass the system Unlimited user accounts Individual  user monitoring setups Individual user filtering setup Provides alert system for user access violations Protects against Intruders Protects against Spam emails Protects against Spyware Protects against disapproved email contents Protects against Impersonation Blocks popup Runs Manually, and Automated Protects User Privacy, and Financial Information
Low Cost	One-time low cost payment plan Requires no service fees Requires no maintenances
24X7 System Availability	Requires no changes to the current services Supports all kinds of Internet connections Supports all popular browsers Users will never lose their protection Available private and automated services for 24X7

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