FORT MYERS, Fla. - While watching a TV show about sexual predators online, Buzz Bruner got an idea. "I saw it to be a calling for what I wanted to do," he said.

What the Fort Myers businessman wanted to do is develop software allowing parents to control over how much information their kids can give out online.

"The programs that were out there that I researched were only monitoring and reporting back to the parents after the info was already sent," he said.

It took 16 months, but now he's selling his product nationwide. It's called blockoutgoing.com. It's goal is to prevent kids from giving their personal information over the internet to strangers, possibly sexual predators.

Here's how it works: Parents enter in the name of their child, his or her school, phone number, address, and other personal information. Once this information is entered into the system, it will not allow their child to give it out online. For example: your child can type his or her first name, but when they try to give out their last name it'll shows up as a bunch of dots. The same goes for their school, telephone number or any other personal information the parent entered into the software. The privacy settings apply to all instant messages and emails.

"Their computer is being monitored 24-7, 365 days a year," Buzz said.

The software also has a setting that restricts curse words and their acronyms from being typed out.

Parents can enable and disable the software at any time so they can use the computer without the restrictions.

www.blockoutgoing.com