Porn Filter Software

Hi folks new to the forum and trying to get some help from you

I have a 12 year old son and worried about him getting acces to porn websites, I'm currently using firefox as my main browser, can someone recomend me a program(freeware)that can filter out adult website.

I really appreciate any help.

PD Been using CCleaner for a while, great program :).

Hi grampar. :)

Take a look at this:

http://www.radiance.m6.net/

Not only do they have a free program but at the bottom of the site is other free ones.

I wish I could recommend you a good one, but I've never tried any of these kinds of software first hand.

Maybe look for an add-ons to the extensions Adblock and/or Adblock Plus to filter them. There's always the Windows HOSTS file way too, although I don't think it could be made smart enough as an Adblock/Adblock Plus add-on would be since they can use wildcards.

Then again there's always the pay software route too.

I do know there's software available I had seen on the news (don't remember the name of it though) that will only allow a child to visit a particular website after an adult has deemed it safe.

There's a search engine for children on ChildSafe International, that will only show children safe searchs (and obviously some naughty adults should use them too):

http://www.childsafe.com/

Thanks a lot for the quick response guys, I really appreciate all the sugestions and I'll take a look at the links you both posted.

Thanks again :) .

Hi Grampar. Welcome. :D

I just found a bunch of these by doing a Google search for "free internet content filters". Cannot comment on any, haven't used them. Have you checked with your school system. . they might have suggestions.

May be you could use one of the kids search engines as your homepage whilst your young fella is on the net.

The services below are designed primarily to serve the needs of children, either in focus, or by filtering out sites that some parents and teachers might find inappropriate for kids. These usually include sites that deal with explicit sexual matters, porn sites, violence, hate speech, gambling and drug use.

Kids Search Engines

May be you could use one of the kids search engines as your homepage whilst your young fella is on the net.

Kids Search Engines

I run WinXp and have a separate user name for my 12 yr old. I disable all shortcuts to IE and have him access through AOL Kids Zone. This works very well for me.

Good Luck

.... I disable all shortcuts to IE and h.....

Start / Run / iexplore

Start / Run / firerfox

If you are only disabling the shortcuts it may not be enough, you can still run them.

Start / Run / iexplore

Start / Run / firerfox

If you are only disabling the shortcuts it may not be enough, you can still run them.

I understand that. Certain restrictions will work for specific age group children. If you are concerned about a 10 to 12 year old then this should be fine. IF you permit your children to have a computer connected to the internet in their own bedroom, unsupervised, then you are only asking for trouble. Our computer is in the family room and my children each got their own once they turned 17.

Our computer is in the family room....

Good choice, good old supervision :-)

Here are a few "protection/monitoring" links I found.

K9 Web Protection - a free internet filter

Safe Families - free internet filtering and parental control software

Reveal - a free program for finding if porn files are stored on your computer

File Sharing Sentinel - free parental control tool for blocking file-sharing programs

SurfPass - free version of the SurfPass filter, which also allows time limits, logging, etc.

B Gone - free web filter based on keywords list

NoWorrys - allows access to trusted sites (list) only (see also: PpGuard)

ICRA Plus - free tool, offers control over access to labelled sites

WebWatcher - one of the best commercial parental control tools

X3 Watch - free accountability program (informs about accesses to questionable sites - for PC and MAC)

KidRocket - web browser for young kids (limits access to web sites)

LogProtect - prevent your child from transmitting his personal coordinates (can be bypassed, though)

Free tools - listing free filters, website is in French

Squid - proxy/blacklisting for administrators

Censornet - a free filter for Linux (another alternative: DansGuardian)

N2H2 Database - submit URLs for inclusion in the Bess/N2H2 blacklist

Note: I havent checked all the links , and all the descriptions belong to Naomi's Programmer

All those links thanks to the Freeware Naomi Internet Filter (available unsuported since 2006) website

lol fiery, thats the link I posted. :P

woops :lol: I didn't recognize the link when you posted it, I also never clicked it :wacko: