Hey guys!
Do you have underage internet users at home? Do you ever wonder if they are safe from accessing websites that are not suitable for them? The reality is, we are not always there to guide them at every click. That is why the clever people at Blue Coat Systems decided to create a web-based software, the K9 Web Protection, to help us supervise their activities and monitor their internet usage.
K-9 Web Protection software gives us the following points that we should consider before choosing a third-party security software that we will use to police our internet:
Over-blocking: Some security solutions might be too restrictive, and block many sites you or your children need or want to see. An overly restrictive solution can be frustrating for you and your family if you have to unblock sites on a regular basis.
Under-blocking: On the other hand, if your security software does not have sophisticated Web filtering capabilities, it may not block enough inappropriate or dangerous content. As a result, your children may wander into (or intentionally find) the sites you don’t want them to see.The following are the features of K-9:
Content Categories
You can easily block entire categories of content by choosing from any of K9’s 69 categories, including:
- Personal pages and blogs
- Content servers
- Suspicious
- Extreme
- Non-viewable
- Web applications
- Placeholders
Safe Search is supported by many leading search engines as a way to block search results for offensive topics. For example, Safe Search might not show any results in a search for adult photos. K9 Web Protection also enables you to force users to use Safe Search with the following search engines: Google, A9, AltaVista, Microsoft Live, Yahoo, Ask and Orange.co.uk.
Personal Firewalls and Internet Security Products
K9 Web Protection is compatible with the following third-party personal firewall and Internet security products:
- Personal firewalls: Comodo
- Anti-virus products: Avast, Avira
- Internet security suites: McAfee, F-Secure, Norton/Symantec, Computer Associates and Check Point ZoneAlarm
In addition to enabling you to allow or block Web access during certain times of the day, K9 Web Protection offers NightGuard — a convenient way to block all Web access during certain times of the day or night. For example, using NightGuard, with a few clicks you can disable all Web access between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. every day.
You can also keep track of K9’s activity with convenient, detailed logs that enable you to:
- Organize logs by time of day, secure Web sites blocked and unsafe search blocks
- Remove old log entries
- Store logs on the computer in a format that is readable only by K9 Web Protection
I have been using this software for 2 years already and all I can say is that it lives up to expectations. This software will definitely provide you the peace of mind you have been looking for. Oh, and one more great thing about this software...it's FREE!
Now, does it get any better than that?
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