How to restrict internet access?

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ANDRADE

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Is there any free software how i can restrict internet access, let's say i don't want a 10-year old end up on pornsite by accident?
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There's parental controls in most browser...

My school uses somethign called St. Bernard, and my old one used Litespeed. Don't know if they are only for like schools/offices or something, but yeah they'd definetly keep a 10year old out. [tard] If you don't want them looking at porn, link them to !!!!!!!!!! or !!!!!! and I bet they never look anything up again.[/tard]
 
Plug the cable modem into a lamp timer. This works great if it is somewhere the kid can't get too. If you just want to restrict his, then plug his computer into a switch/hub and hook that up to the timer. This gives you total blocking power. Great because your kid can't play any online games or chat either.
 
Linksys with modified firmware can block right from the router, not much of a way around it that way...
Default router can turn off net access to certain PC's at a specific times.
 
Delete the blue Internet Explorer "E" icon, what they don't see won't tempt them.
 
brom42 said:
Plug the cable modem into a lamp timer. This works great if it is somewhere the kid can't get too. If you just want to restrict his, then plug his computer into a switch/hub and hook that up to the timer. This gives you total blocking power. Great because your kid can't play any online games or chat either.
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Take everything any kid would want to do with a computer, out of it. Yet you still are paying. Is it just me or does this make no sence.
 
Hawk001 said:
Take everything any kid would want to do with a computer, out of it. Yet you still are paying. Is it just me or does this make no sence.
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he's 10 years old

he'd be doing the world a favor, playing with 12 year olds on the mic is bad enough

as far as site blockers go, im sure you could get one for free - it comes with most antivirus, too - like trendmicro
 
in three easy steps :p

1. copy this text into a notepad and save it as noaccess.rat
and save it in WINNT\system32 (W2K) WINDOWS\system32 (XP)

Code: 
((PICS-version 1.0)
 (rating-system "http://www.microsoft.com")
 (rating-service "http://www.microsoft.com")
 (name "Noaccess")
 (description "This file will block all sites.")

 (category
  (transmit-as "m")
  (name "Yes")
   (label
   (name "Level 0:   No Setting")
   (description "No Setting")
   (value 0) )
  (label
   (name "Level 1:   No Setting")
   (description "No Setting")
   (value 1) ) ))

2. Open IE > Tools > Internet Options > Content > Enable > General tab > Rating Systems > delete all > add > noaccess.rat > OK > Approved Sites Tab > add

http://technet.microsoft.com/
http://update.microsoft.com
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/

clicking "always" after each > General Tab > User Options > Check Supervisor can type password to allow users to view restricted content > uncheck Users can see sites that have no rating > set password

3. install Firefox with the noscript extention or Opera

IE is now secured :p

might make sense to restrict that folder's NTFS permissions as well
Program Files\Internet Explorer > Properties > Sharing Tab > check do not share > Security Tab > remove all users except yourself :p (Administrators)
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you can of course adapt this to a user, for instance create a user account for the kid, and create a list of allowed sites they can visit, you end up depriving them of Firefox\Opera, not sure how to do this in those aps

yet


Welcome to the forums ;)
Andrade...an unusual nic, I had a friend with that last name, its a Galician\Portuguese surname of some note
 
new routers now have this built in....

My DI-634M has site blocking, total computer blocking, etc built in
 
Some ISP's give free software for concerned parents. I have Comcast, and got Mcafee Privacy service for nothing. Each one of my children have to log into it, and they are filtered by age groups for content. You also can restrict the times for internet access( no middle of the night surfing while the parents are asleep).

Nothing is 100% effective besides unplugging it, but its a start.
 
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