O.M.G! How do i stop inapropriate content online?

Smag · 23 February 2006 at 10:48PM

Hi
I am running on windows xp (home) all the family has there own personal user accounts (Wife and I have supervisor rights)

We browse using firefox on one pc and IE on the other. Is there a parental control device withing windows or these browsers or should I get my hands on a specific programme (maybe there is a free download out there somewhere) to do the job?

I try to keep my eyes on the kids browsing but am extreamly concerned now!

Thanks in advance
Steven

albertross_2 · 23 February 2006 at 10:59PM

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=138709&highlight=parental+controls

You can also block naughty words/specific sites in the url if you have a Netgear router.

intel · 23 February 2006 at 11:01PM

Supervision until the age of 16ish.

Bob63 · 24 February 2006 at 10:00AM

Norton Internet Security has a superb content blocking feature. It allows you, on an account by account basis, to block specific categories of content. I use it with my 14 year old and 10 year old daughters and it works a treat. The best thing about it is the blocking list which is regularly updated, but you have to pay for this after the first year. As with anything like this though, you get what you pay for and to me I don't take chances with my children by using half-cocked solutions.

Mike

Smag · 24 February 2006 at 12:56PM

cheesy.mike wrote:

Norton Internet Security has a superb content blocking feature. It allows you, on an account by account basis, to block specific categories of content. I use it with my 14 year old and 10 year old daughters and it works a treat. The best thing about it is the blocking list which is regularly updated, but you have to pay for this after the first year. As with anything like this though, you get what you pay for and to me I don't take chances with my children by using half-cocked solutions.

Mike

Used Norton for a few years before kids got oldenough to be interested in internet and found it slowed my system up so much I had to dump it - use avg now and sytem runs a treat. Will try and get some specific download to do the job.
Tried setting content advisor in internet options but it just seems to block everything on everyones account, and doesn't work with Mozilla Firefox.

Thanks for suggestions so far
Steven

David_Mee · 24 February 2006 at 1:51PM

One simple technique is to make use of the Hosts file - basically this is designed to speed up looking up IP addresses by storing them on your computer ( it has
entries of

IP Address Domain
123.123.12.1 Madeupdomain.com

- however you can make use of this by using the IP address 127.0.0.1 which basically is a loopback to your own computer (i.e. request never gets out onto internet). So you would add

127.0.0.1 PornAddressToBlock.com
127.0.0.1 AnotherBadAddress.org

etc etc

Of course this is a massive task so you make use of the numerous Hosts files posted on the web (Google it)

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Looks a good one but there are loads others.

Read the info on the above page as he also lists other progs to backup, make read-only etc etc the Hosts file which should stop a knowledgable teen hacking round the block!

GibsonSt19 · 24 February 2006 at 3:41PM

There's some free software called Naomi

I've hard lots of great things about ir for Family Internet Filtering.

Hope that helps.

Bob63 · 24 February 2006 at 6:32PM

Smag wrote:

Used Norton for a few years before kids got oldenough to be interested in internet and found it slowed my system up so much I had to dump it - use avg now and sytem runs a treat. Will try and get some specific download to do the job.

Yes, but modern version of Norton are excellent and you will not find another web filter to better Norton for restricting inappropriate content IMHO.

Mike

Wombat · 25 February 2006 at 12:41AM

I haven't tried Naomi, but I was trying to block one particular kind of site and found that the filtering programs I had tried out all blocked everything.

I'm over the moon now with B Gone. Exactly what I needed. It blocks sites based on a list of words, which it compares with the words appearing in the title bar of each webpage (e.g. "Moneysavingexpert.com Forums" on this page).

It downloads with a set list of words, which can be edited, and so tailored to each PC and user. The program is pasword protected and so the list cannot be edited without knowing the password.

http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&p=bgone

spurs1234 · 25 February 2006 at 1:19PM

On the Host file Theme you could just get Spybot, in the Advanced Options there is a tab with Host File on it, click on that and add spybots list it filters alot of popups and nasty sites

Hope this helps

Spybot

also in advanced options is something called System Internals do a full scan and delete anything that comes up it tidys the registry a little.

Smag · 26 February 2006 at 3:27PM

GibsonSt19 wrote:

There's some free software called Naomi

I've hard lots of great things about ir for Family Internet Filtering.

Hope that helps.

This looks pretty promising, although on a review site I noticed a few minor irritations from users. Mainly that if a webpage is blocked when trying to load, the browser closes all current pages. Very frustrating if you have quite a few tabs open. And I couldnt figure out if it could be configured for each individual user account.
Wife is a student Nurse and needs to use for her research so can't have her access restricted.

Thanks for all the ideas so far

Steven

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