have a home customer who is getting dsl and wants a webfilter program, so he can have controls over what sites his kids go to.
It's an XP machine.
How do the controls in IE 6 work? any better than they used to? (that is, does it still suck?)
Thanks.
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have a home customer who is getting dsl and wants a webfilter program, so he can have controls over what sites his kids go to.
It's an XP machine.
How do the controls in IE 6 work? any better than they used to? (that is, does it still suck?)
Thanks.
<a href="http://www.netnanny.com/home/home.asp" target="_blank">http://www.netnanny.com/home/home.asp</a>
be sure to check out <a href="http://www.netnanny.com/home/aboutxp.htm" target="_blank">this</a> to make it work properly with xp
he he didn't have that problem with dial up eh?
LOL :D
"I have no idea where my child got the design specs for a pipe bomb."
:eek:
What happened to parents spending time with their children? If they are on the net, why not be there with them so you can make sure they aren't going where they shouldn't? It doesn't cost a penny to supervise your children and you're staying involved with their developement.
End rant. I apologize. I guess I'm in one of those moods tonight.
:cool:
[quote]Originally posted by Hippie_Tech:
<strong>"I have no idea where my child got the design specs for a pipe bomb."
:eek:
What happened to parents spending time with their children? If they are on the net, why not be there with them so you can make sure they aren't going where they shouldn't? It doesn't cost a penny to supervise your children and you're staying involved with their developement.
End rant. I apologize. I guess I'm in one of those moods tonight.
:cool: </strong><hr></blockquote>
thesame thought crossed my mind as well.
Does anyone know anything about We-Blocker?
<a href="http://www.we-blocker.com/" target="_blank">http://www.we-blocker.com/</a>
[quote]Originally posted by Hippie_Tech:
<strong>"I have no idea where my child got the design specs for a pipe bomb."
:eek:
What happened to parents spending time with their children? If they are on the net, why not be there with them so you can make sure they aren't going where they shouldn't? It doesn't cost a penny to supervise your children and you're staying involved with their developement.
End rant. I apologize. I guess I'm in one of those moods tonight.
:cool: </strong><hr></blockquote>
With the way family lifestyles are now, it is not always possible to supervise and protect our children the way that you suggest. With both parents working and maintaining a household, or the countless single parent families trying to do the same, children today are going to have a lack of supervision that can’t be helped in the most genuine of ways.
Trust relationships with parents are going to be compromised by the children; we all know that from experience on both sides. For a proper trust relationship to work, looking over a shoulder isn’t always the best method. You have to give the children a chance to do things on their own; this will display independence, and discipline. The secret to these magical moments is for parents to watch without being seen. Parental control software is not the lazy way out. It is instead a rather calculated way to ensure that children comply with the rules of the house; it will also compel them to adhere, should they choose to act differently.
It is not fair to judge a request to protect ones children by using parental controls as to assume there is a dereliction of parental duty. Instead, respect the effort as genuine and true, then offer a functional solution if you know one.
The best monitoring tool is free but I don't think it works with XP. :( Click start/run and type history and click OK. This will show you all of the websites you have been to in the last week and what day. I know it works on 98 and is not working on my 2000 machine. I just showed a lady how to use this and she's going to be checking up on her boy using it from now on.
i went with cyberpatrol. seems to work pretty well.
though during the "learning curve," i leared an embarrassing lesson. by default, the keyword web filtering is not enabled. i found it the hard way by testing it on the most obvious "unpleasant" site, <a href="http://www.xxx.com." target="_blank">www.xxx.com.</a> what do you know, but a barrage of porn pop ups everywhere. quite unpleasant as my conservative muslim customer looked on.
IMHO, there is no safe 'filter' out there, as most program that are availalbe, if the kids are smart enough, they can work around them.
I have a couple customers with teenage sons that were getting into porn, (they of course denied it) and what we did was insatll the monitoring software, "Spector". it takes screen shots at set intervals, and records time, website, programs used, etc. DOES NOT BLOCK SITES, but in this case, my cusotmer was able to determine which son was doing it based on the times it was used, and has setup his XP machine with passwords now, and does not allow access.
Hmm, best parental control program....
NONE
None of them do there job corectly
they either block TOO much, or not enough
or block non offensive content on certain pages, and yet let certain offensive pages right through
I agree with insane... that is why i did not recomend the filtering... see, these programs rely primarily on a list of good sites, or bad sites... if you set them up to allow access to only GOOD sites, you end up geting tons of sites blocked that dont need to be, and if you block BAD sites, you end up with new bad sites each day that have not been added to the 'bad' list.... these get updated similr to your virus definitions.
Trust your kids, but check up on them. Trusting sofware to protect your kids is looking for trouble.
Recently tried a program called Big Brother (iambigbrother.com) and appreciate the detailed monitoring of chats, but the program would often show chats happening on dates the pc was not even turned on.
Has anyone else used this program?
-Lawrence
I agree with Insane and Joelen, monitoring software will only cause distrust between the parent and child (Jeez Dad, you let me borrow the car to take Susie out but you don't trust me to use the computer???) :cool:
Parents need to take the time and explain what and how the computer(s) can be used for and what the broundies are. Let them know what happens when they step out of those broundies and then follow though.
As a parent that's the way both my wife and I will approach it. Will this work for everyone whoose to say.
My 2 cents
[quote]Originally posted by Hippie_Tech:
<strong>"I have no idea where my child got the design specs for a pipe bomb."
:eek:
What happened to parents spending time with their children? If they are on the net, why not be there with them so you can make sure they aren't going where they shouldn't? It doesn't cost a penny to supervise your children and you're staying involved with their developement.
End rant. I apologize. I guess I'm in one of those moods tonight.
:cool: </strong><hr></blockquote>
well you know getting info like that is not because of the internet you all know that right? I used to get my info from the local library. They carried the anarchiest cook book and all. How do you think it got on the net :)