AVG is a well known name in desktop anti-virus software and it has been trying to get going in the mobile world for a while, here providing a 'safe' web browser that any child can use without danger of coming across anything nasty. The first version of Family Safety for Windows Phone was hampered by it being trivial for the child (for example) to break out and access the real, unprotected browser. But with Kids Corner implemented in Windows Phone 8, all of a sudden we have a foolproof environment for AVG Family Safety to work in. Screenshots, comments and links below.

The aim is that, perhaps waiting in a queue or on a car journey, you can hand your smartphone to a child to play with or, in this case, even look things up, without worrying about them stumbling on adult material or anyone who might take advantage of their naivety.

Here's a walkthrough session of AVG Family Safety 8 in action on a Nokia Lumia 920, though any WP8 device should work just fine. 

The product allows sign in with an AVG family account that you might also hold for your desktop computers, in theory so that any preferences can be synced down, but this isn't really needed for the phone version...

AVG Family Safety installed happily in Kids Corner on my phone - the icon is deliberately dull, perhaps to discourage kids from tapping it? (right) in use, it's a full instance of Internet Explorer, though without multiple tabs.

It'll help your kids a lot if you set up some favourites first, of course, though the number of kid-friendly sites which don't use Flash is rather limited... ; (right) rather oddly, there's the option to delete the browsing history - as a parent, wouldn't you want the facility to check where 'Little Johnny' had been browsing rather than giving him the one tap ability to wipe out all trace?

The core feature, blocking anything adult or dangerous largely works as advertised, though I'm tempted to say that the error message should just be a kid-friendly 'Sorry, you can't go there'. As it is, your child will be saying "Daddy, what's 'pornography'?" or, worse, Google-search the word when they get back to their homework laptop etc. 

As can be seen in the screenshot, above-right, the system's also not foolproof - Omegle is a popular real time chat system where anyone can be anyone and you really, really don't want your child making contacts or chatting here. Yet AVG Family Safety allows access without a murmur, which is disappointing, considering the company's claims about a database of 'millions' of sites and 'updated daily'....

The product is free though, and does offer a modest amount of protection for a child being let loose on your phone on the World Wide Web. Grab it here in the Windows Phone Store.