Controlling porn from Kids?

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Farquaon

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What software is available to keep kids away from pron sites? Im looking for something that will update itself, and keep on running. It's for a client, and he has 5 computers at home, and then he also wants something at his offices, to keep his employees from the sites and so forth.

Any ideas?

Netnanny.com?
 
a central firewall/gateway thingy will probibly work better than software installed on each pc.
 
Have a look at netnanny. Otherwise I'm sure something could be arranged by using a hosts file.
 
Im looking for an "install and go" setup. With hosts files, i will have to go and update it ect, and I dont get paid for that. That why im looking at netnanny and thought someone might have some better idea of a package,
 
does the router have that capability? i know with my billion you can enter restricted sites/words etc
 
Netnanny and the like are (one way or another) crap and circumventable. Also they cost you money and, being client-side apps will cost you (money for multiple installs) and time (for management). Far better would be controlling at source: filtering your 'net access through a bottleneck and controlling it there. And, if you do it right, you can use free apps: IIRC IPCop and SmoothWall talk to DansGuardian whose entire existence is content filtering:

DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites like lesser totally commercial filters.

DansGuardian is designed to be completely flexible and allows you to tailor the filtering to your exact needs. It can be as draconian or as unobstructive as you want. The default settings are geared towards what a primay school might want but DansGuardian puts you in control of what you want to block.

DansGuardian is a true web content filter.

Your normal web filter such as Cyber Patrol, squidGuard, Net Nanny, etc, has a very large list of bad sites. If you try to go to these sites you will get blocked. I.e. your web access is filtered by web address.

The web is a fast changing place and even large web search engines such as Google or Altavista or Yahoo don't even know of half of it. This makes filtering by web address (URL) difficult as sites change and new ones come up all the time. It is impossible to have comprehensive filtering using just URLs. What is needed is something to check every page you (or your children) ever access for 'bad' subjects such as drugs, profanities, hate, pornography, etc, and disallow it if it's not suitable. This is called 'Content Filtering'.

This is why you need DansGuardian as it makes the web a cleaner, safer, place for you and your children.

As a side effect, DansGuardian also helps maintain freedom of speech by moving the censoring to the choice of the individual rather than imposing a specific ideal on the whole world.
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I use Naomi - it's a little over zealous at times, but at least i know my kids are safe. It's also not easy to work around and can be turned off by parents when they want to use the PC. Its free.
http://www.radiance.m6.net/
 
Farquaon said:
What software is available to keep kids away from pron sites? Im looking for something that will update itself, and keep on running. It's for a client, and he has 5 computers at home, and then he also wants something at his offices, to keep his employees from the sites and so forth.

Any ideas?

Netnanny.com?
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I use Foxy Internet Filter.... (Personal Favourite)
Not only does it filter porn but also items in different catagories including search, banking, hate... etc! What's good about it is that it's a full proxy server. So all computers point to LAN proxy 192.168.0.1:8080 (example) and all of them are filtered. Will save you on license costs for NetNanny and others. Needs only to be installed on 1 computer in a networked environment.

http://www.2-power-n.com/

Hope this helps.

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Just let the kids view the porn... that way when the time comes, they know what to do. And the other person does not have to take the lead.
 
Person said:
Just let the kids view the porn... that way when the time comes, they know what to do. And the other person does not have to take the lead.
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I was about to say something similar. But since you beat me to it...

At/from what age should children be exposed to pr0n? (or sexual education, whatever you wanna call it)
 
spiderz said:
I was about to say something similar. But since you beat me to it...

At/from what age should children be exposed to pr0n? (or sexual education, whatever you wanna call it)
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I really have no idea, the legal thing would be 18.
 
Currently I filter all p0rn, adverts, racisism etc. on my connection. With kids of my own, I know how the client feels.
 
spiderz said:
I definatly have to agree there. So what pr0n site would you recomend for children then? (or is that the wrong way to approach this?)
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With all due respect, you guys are messed up;

:rolleyes: N7.1 (version upgrade)
 
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