If you're looking for a filtering program that will stop your kids
from visiting pornographic sites, this isn't the one to get. It's
far too simple and ineffective to be useful. We found that it
didn't block between a quarter to a third of pornographic sites we
tried to visit.
The program primarily works using on a black list and white list.
The black list contains sites and words found in URLs. If a site is
on the list, or if the site contains a word or letter combination,
it will be blocked. Otherwise, the site can be visited. If the site
is on the white list, it can always be visited.
The problem with this approach is that there are far too many
pornographic Web sites to track, and to manually put into the black
list. Other competing products use a variety of ways around this
problem. Some companies have a staff of people who compile the
latest black lists, which is then automatically imported into the
program. Others analyze the actual content of every Web site
visited.
This program does neither, and so it won't do what you need it to.
You'll be better off with another product, or using the built-in
parental control features of Windows Vista, if you have that
operating system.
--Preston Gralla
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- License Type: 7 Day Trial
- Price: $25
- Date Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Author: NetDog Soft
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