Posts Tagged ‘Content Filters’

We have earlier carried a review on free DNS services like OpenDNS and Norton DNS. OpenDNS is one of the most popular free DNS service with more than 20 million people (about 1% of the total Internet user population). While OpenDNS provides you a fast, safe and efficient mechanism for resolving your desired URL into the correct IP address, Norton ...

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The noted security vendor Symantec has launched a new Public DNS service, called Norton DNS, which aims to stop malware URLs and Websites opening in your browser. You have to configure the Norton DNS server settings in your Network connections, and then every URL requested by your computer browser is filtered ...

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Accessing Blocked Websites How many times it has happened that... You want to watch restricted video form any country, You have just been kicked out of a membership site or forum. They have blocked your access by banning your IP Address, but you want to access that site. You live in Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan Uzbekistan, Vietnam, or ...

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Browsers are like your Windows in a closed house, through which your computer interacts with the outside world. That's why, web browsers are the cause of most of malware infections acquired by your computer. It is absolutely important to use the best browser security tools. JavaScripts - A Necessary Evil JavaScript is a necessary evil. In today's world it is used by most of the websites to ...

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The success of Social Networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn is all about the WEb 2.0 era. The popularity of them is growing day  by day and people have started finding answers to theor problems through searches with these sites. However, often, they are considered to be a big time-wasters and a drain on ...

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If you are a parent with a small kid at home with a computer connected with Internet, then you have an added responsibility to protect him from the objectionable material littered all over the web. There are lots of ways and tools, which can do the job for you, all operating on different algorithms. Some of them are free content filters, while others are paid. Some ...

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First thing first. If you are looking for a free child protection software for your children, and your are running a Windows system, then this post is not for you. Here we are talking about a net content filter, which is useful for a system administrator, managing a network on something like linux and wants to protect the computers connected from this network from objectionable content available ...

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OpenDNS is one of the best free PC Security Tools, which we recommend you to start using. It is a website filtering tool, which works at the DNS level. It functions with several other organizations to indentify the harmful and dangerous websites. Besides security, OpenDNS also adds to the speed of your web surfing, by speeding up ...

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Internet Parenting and Significance of Website Filtering Internet is one of the biggest revolutions in the history of humanity. It has changed the way we live, we communicate and we learn the things. But the darker side of Internet is that it has also opened numerous ways to cheat others, to commit frauds and take advantage of the others' vulnerabilities. And children are most vulnerable. As a ...

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What are File Sharing Tools File Sharing Tools like Kazaa, Morpheus, Bearshare, iMesh, LimeWire etc. are fun to use and play around. They provide you instant access to thousands to music files, videos, songs, software and many other things. They are hugely popular among the teens and growing up age children. One of the most popular file sharing tools are peer-to-peer networks, or P2P networks. Some of ...

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