Friday, March 5, 2010
Web search and kids
E just learned that Googling bad words shows bad pictures... any recomendations on helping to protect her on the internet? Net Nanny seems like a highly rated product.
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Open DNS provides some free category based filtering. It is not perfect but it is painless to set up and actually makes your DNS resolution quicker in the process.
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Net Nanny is real nice, it doesn't even allow the children to change the filter off of strict. It keeps a nice log of attempts to go to restricted pages too.
I have a 13 y.o. boy so seeing a log is a must. Probably not necessary if you are just trying to protect them from the accidental adult searching.
Oh and it is configurable to block more than adult content, if I recall it had things like religion and other things I can't recall off the top of my head.
I definetly felt better letting him use the computer without supervision with NetNanny installed.
Chris, who's a friend of a friend (of yours) had a similar problem several years ago. http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showtopic.aspx?ixtopic=1830. One of the comments links to this article (http://heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/542.aspx) which reiterates one of the most important things I've heard - put the computer in a high traffic area (we've moved the general use laptop to the kitchen).
Thanks for the link, that is indeed good advice.
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