Doh, just noticed you said "desktop PC". Generally I'm of the opinion that doing it at the server is more likely to keep your kids from dinking with it. But if you'd prefer to do it at the client side, we recently researched this idea. I will assume for the moment that you intend to use a windows box for the kids. If the kids are using Linux on the desktop, squidguard and some iptables rules to block outbound port 80 will do the trick nicely. The things we looked at were Cybersitter and NetNanny. Cybersitter was found to be generally unsatisfactory, in that it had quite a lot of problems under XP, as it was never designed for a multi-user OS. The same was true for NetNanny, although NN coped much better.

Cybersitter also has gotten lots of bad reviews for generally bad installation and uninstallation in older OSes, often taking down the entire system to the point of requiring a reinstall. Granted, that's public opinion on the net, I haven't experienced those problems personally, but we weren't comfortable reselling a product that might result in that level of support nightmares.

[shameless plug] And if all of this is too daunting, you can signup for Intrex Internet, and we'll filter all of your traffic and enforce it at the router, for a measly $3 per month. :)

Aaron J.

Aaron S. Joyner wrote:

I've spent the past few days integrating squidGuard with squid and our proprietary compression software. You should definitely give squidGuard a look, and if you have any configuration troubles, feel free to ask. If you don't do anything too out of the ordinary it's a breeze - if you stray too far from the beaten path things get... interesting. :)

http://www.squidguard.org/

Aaron J.


Dan Monjar wrote:


I'm looking for something that will monitor and perhaps block the web sites my kids go to. Any recommendations? I'm already doing some stuff at the router but it is just primarily keyword blocking.






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