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Interwebby child filters

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 12:36
by Dr. kitteny berk
My sister works at a charity for mongs, they have some computers but they wanna stop the spackers getting at porn.

Ideally needs to be free (or cheap and work on multiple machines) and be reasonably difficult to disable.

any ideas?

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 12:42
by mrbobbins
Give them all porn mags, then they wont need to use the internet for it

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 12:44
by Dr. kitteny berk
mrbobbins wrote:Give them all porn mags, then they wont need to use the internet for it
problem is, mongs of the downs flavour are quite likely to whip it out and do what comes naturally at every opportunity.

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 12:46
by Dog Pants
Sign them up to 5punk!

Sorry, nothing more constructive than that to say.

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 12:54
by Grimmie
The only thing I can think of is cyberpatrol - But that's quite expensive and requires a licence per PC.
Websense do solutions for Small businesses.

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 12:58
by fabyak
CAT5 + Gardening shears = WINZ0RZ!

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 13:14
by Stoat

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 13:18
by Dr. kitteny berk
ooh, good idea mr. stoat. *tries to find a windows based one*

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 13:23
by fabyak
is this any good?

http://weblocker.fameleads.com/

looks like it blocks pr0ns and is totally free (so they say)

whether its any good or not I have no idea

[edit] also free!

http://www.download.com/Privoxy/3000-21 ... ag=lst-0-8

[edit2] free, lots of downloads and very good reviews: http://www.download.com/K9-Web-Protecti ... ag=lst-0-3

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 14:41
by Fear
It's not fool proof, or mong proof as may be more relevant...

You can restrict the sites using Group Policy that is already in Windows. (i.e. free)

It will catch about 80% of the sites in my experience when I had that going at Siemens. The shop floor staff were always looking at porn.

This tho was a stop-gap until we purchased something. I can't for the life of my think of the name - but it ran with Microsoft Proxy Server / NT4, I can remember that much.

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This screeny is in Win2k3 server std being the domain server of the clients you wish to censor. However Group Policy is mostly a list of registry changes so could be simply done in the registry with an absence of domain controller or the like.


Edit: You can disable the ability for non-admins to change this, or hide the options entirely. Forgot that bit.

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 15:33
by ProfHawking
i think new versions of norton internet security have parental stuffs..

if you hit a jackpot, please let me know as i regularly could do with things like that.

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 16:50
by Dr. kitteny berk
cheers for those, i appreciate it.

Adding notes etc. below for others
Looks pretty good, doesn't appear to work against firefox. (not critical in this case)
*waaay* too complicated to setup, looks like it'd take a few hours to get right.
Well, this might just stop helen keller seeing porn, but that's about it.

Posted: August 31st, 2006, 17:11
by Roman Totale
confiscate their head dobbers and threaten to burst their bawoons.