Parental control

[saamuel]

Hi, I guess this might be a tricky question but I wonder if there's any program that can substitute ugly words from Internet Explorer, in the way that I myself control which words that should be prohibited and that I could change for example the word sex to the world apple on all internet websites?

[DigeratiPrime]

I think i saw a firefox extension that could do this.

But a better solution would be a full web filter, not just keyword or url, but category filterting etc. I rely on ZoneAlarm for this.

[saamuel]

I think i saw a firefox extension that could do this.

But a better solution would be a full web filter, not just keyword or url, but category filterting etc.  I rely on ZoneAlarm for this.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ok, tnx. I'll try to find the extension and also check if ZoneAlarm could be something. Maybe you could see where you found that extension too?

[DigeratiPrime]

The Firefox extension I reffered to earlier (sorry it has taken soo long) is BlockXXX.

http://singlepointnetworks.com/ffext/blockxxx/

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=226

I have tried a couple of 'solutions' including Cyberpatrol, ContentProtect, and ZoneAlarm Security Suite. Out of these three, ZA is the most effective, and considering it includes anti-virus and a really good firewall is also the best deal. You can filter web sites according to 35 categories, and the database updates constantly, you dont download whitelists, it just filters on the fly. And perhaps most importantly you can tell ZoneAlarm to block any pages that havent been added to the database / categorized.

PS I dont work for them never had any connection to their company, its just that this seems to be the only program that actually works. B)

Furthermore you can find a few routers with built n parental controls:

Linksys WRT54GS (Netopia)

ZyXEL HS-100w (Cerberian)

and some Belkin routers.

Edited November 29, 2005 by DigeratiPrime