Does anyone know of a portable Child-Safe Internet solution? I currently use iProtectYou (older free version) from SoftForYou (which ironically sounds like a porn site itself). I'm fairly certain it isn't portable and it has many limitations (on account of its age and the fact that there is a newer shareware version).
I realize that I could use a proxy server and block certain sites but can proxy servers block content based on keywords? Ideally it would be nice to have a program that has some reasonable level of built-in intelligence in order to try to block any dubious material.
Child-safe Internet
No idea, but I've been using a HOSTS file on all of my boxes to block known, bad hostnames.
As far as teh HOSTS file though, only an Administrator can modify it.
But, if you have an administrator set the sites to block (resolve to to localhost, 127.0.0.1), all other users who use that system should see those domains blocked.
As far as teh HOSTS file though, only an Administrator can modify it.
But, if you have an administrator set the sites to block (resolve to to localhost, 127.0.0.1), all other users who use that system should see those domains blocked.
That's an ok solution for very specific known sites, like say advertising sites like advertising.com, doubleclick.net, tribalfusion et al but for a more general level of protection against the majority of dubious material it isn't really a very satisfactory solution. Thanks for the suggestion though.ahoier wrote:No idea, but I've been using a HOSTS file on all of my boxes to block known, bad hostnames.
As far as teh HOSTS file though, only an Administrator can modify it.
But, if you have an administrator set the sites to block (resolve to to localhost, 127.0.0.1), all other users who use that system should see those domains blocked.
well, hostfile.mine.nu does have a porn/adult content blocking HOSTS file available, though yea, with the nature of these sites, new ones are constantly popping up everyday.
Have you looked into IE's Content Advisor? In Tools > Internet Options > Content, you can enable it, and set various options of what gets filtered. Of course, there is no perfect solution, because even these filtered sites are added/noted by some committee/company of some sort; and since new ones are popping up daily, it's very hard to filter all of them; but that protection is better than nothing I guess.
Though, yea it's not portable.
Have you looked into IE's Content Advisor? In Tools > Internet Options > Content, you can enable it, and set various options of what gets filtered. Of course, there is no perfect solution, because even these filtered sites are added/noted by some committee/company of some sort; and since new ones are popping up daily, it's very hard to filter all of them; but that protection is better than nothing I guess.
Though, yea it's not portable.
I've never really bothered to look at Content Advisor, being of Microsoft design I'd always naturally assumed that it was in some way fatally flawed and inept. That said, I do currently make use of the privacy policy settings, so I can import a list of cookies to block whenever I reformat my PC. Though this isn't exactly portable, it is a perfectly acceptable solution for me and I would be ok with using the Content Advisor if I could easily carry settings over to a new system if required.ahoier wrote:...
Have you looked into IE's Content Advisor? In Tools > Internet Options > Content, you can enable it, and set various options of what gets filtered. Of course, there is no perfect solution, because even these filtered sites are added/noted by some committee/company of some sort; and since new ones are popping up daily, it's very hard to filter all of them; but that protection is better than nothing I guess.
Though, yea it's not portable.
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DigeratiPrime
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I've been using and reccomending K9 Web Filter to many people. Its free for home users and is an excellent filter.
http://www.k9webprotection.com/
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