I also use OpenDNS for filtering/blocking and find it effective and non-intrusive.
On a side note - Tony how do you find the advertising company URLs? They don't always come up in OpenDNS reports. Thomas From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Wright Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2013 8:58 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Internet Nanny Software + Numeracy/Literacy for young Autistic people. I don't know if this will be adequate for you, but for a firewall I use OpenDNS - it's free and will block any categories that you select. Once you've set it up, all you need to do is to set up the DNS to point to their ip addresses. You can select the level of security you want, from None, Low, Moderate, High and Custom settings. For example, the High will "Protects against all adult-related sites, illegal activity, social networking sites, video sharing sites, and general time-wasters", Moderate will "Protects against all adult-related sites and illegal activity", Low will "Protect against Pornography" etc They also have the ability to allow single sites or block single sites in case there's something that you don't agree with. I put a few of the advertising company urls in there and it does a good job of blocking some dodgy looking ads. http://opendns.com<http://opendns.com/> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Les Hughes <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi All, I've had a friend ask me about Internet Nanny Software and Numeracy/Literacy for young Autistic people. Any suggestions would be *greatly* appreciated! Internet Nanny Software --------------------------------------------------------- Outside of the arguments about children surfing unsupervised, does anyone have experience with decent software which is effective and can't be disabled too easily by little hackers? Numeracy/Literacy for young Autistic people. --------------------------------------------------------- Does anyone have experience with this? Or does anyone know some good software for children anyway? ---------------- Thanks heaps :) -- Les Hughes [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Peninsula Health - Metropolitan Health Service of the Year 2007 & 2009
