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Cyber porn and adult stuff - are some of the materials on the internet that are easily available for us. Just type anything in Google search box. You will be surprised on how many thousand pages of content that Google could gives you.

I was not bothered to look for solution on blocking porn from my internet browsing activities while I was single, but after having children, it seems that I could not avoid from having one.

My 4 years old boy now is more brilliant than his mother on using computer. He could switch on my home PC (which I installed Ubuntu Gutsy), type in the user name and password - and know how to get to YouTube for his favorite Jay Chow’s Initial D video clips. I know, if I don’t educate and control some of the content in the internet to get to his viewing, sooner or later he will surely be exposed to stuff that is not suitable for him.

As I use Ubuntu on my PC at home, Net Nanny will be out of the question. ParentalControl Bar, a free public service that helps concerned parents prevent their children from accessing adult-oriented Web sites was only made to be use with Internet Explorer 7. As Firefox and Ubuntu hardcore, I could only find one solution to get porn and adult content out of my son’s eye view for this moment - OpenDNS.

I have been using OpenDNS for different purposes for the past 3 years, which are navigating the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliably than ever before, but I just notice recently that they could also provide content filtering, phishing protection, adult site blocking and domain blocking.

As it is free and open source, I just get it set up on my Ubuntu PC and after some registration and follow their how-to guide, I now have secured my Firefox browser for my son’s browsing activities.

Yes, I know that blocking this adult content from my son is not going to be the total solution for him. I still need to educate and teach him on the lesson, as he will surely be exposed to those thing one day in the future.

drizad :: Apr.13.2008 :: Security :: No Comments »

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