Saturday, September 8, 2007

Protect Childen

Protect Your Childen From Inappropriate Internet Content

The Internet has become an indispensable tool for our lives. Nowadays it is very common for families to have a computer at home with Internet access. But many parents are worried about what their children are able to see on the Internet.
The Internet can help children to learn and do research on school subjects. But unfortunately, children can also be exposed to the negative content of the Internet. There have been studies showing that many children have been accidentally exposed to obscene pop-up ads or other type of negative content.
A good effort to minimize the exposure of your children to this negative content is installing a parental control and Internet filtering software. The one I can recommend is called K9 Web Protection. This is a free software.
After installing this software, it can detect negative content and block it. Access to inappropriate content is controlled using a password.
By default, it will protect from adult content, security threats, illegal activity, sexually-related sites and online community sites. But it can be configured to different levels of protection depending on your choices of categories.
You can also view a list of all the sites that have been visited, even those that were blocked.
There is even a time restriction feature. You can decide the time and days of the week that the computer can have web access.
Additionally, you can allow access to certain sites and block other sites as well.
You can even setup a dog to bark every time a negative content is blocked. And don't forget, it's free for home use. All you will need is to register your email address so they can send you a License to install it.
If you decide to download it please visit
the K9 Web Protection site
If you want to learn more about how to make the Internet safer for your family, there are lots of website with information about this. One I found is www.safekids.com. They have a list called Kids Rules for Online Safety that you can read there.
The purpose of my articles is to share my experience on computers and technology with you. My free advice might help you on your business or home computer. There is a lot we can do with computers nowadays and many of the software I recommend mostly is available for free. Please visit my website.
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