The mother in-law will be going on broadband for the first time later this week. She's asked if there are any free products that will provide a firewall and "net nanny" type protection?

She currently uses Avast for anti-virus but needs a firewall and something to prevent her grandchildren (read, husband/sons) from viewing porn.

Any ideas?

whatever she uses - they'll figure a way around it I'd imagine - never underestimate a teen on hormones, lol.......

why would you want to filter porn out, filter it in maybe but out, hell no.

thats what the internet is for.

ahhh the porn vortex

Urban Dictionary: porn vortex

whatever she uses - they'll figure a way around it I'd imagine - never underestimate a teen on hormones, lol.......

The kids are aged 5-8 and her husband knows nothign about computers so would never figure a way round it.

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HTH

Bas

windows has a built in firewall, and i would assume the supplied router type affair would too. as far as filters go, i've never had to desire to filter out porn, but K9 Web Protection - Free Internet Filtering and Parental Controls Software is free and small

Glubble

A parental control thing for Firefox web browser

a free Firewall - try Comodo or ZoneAlarm

I use comodo on my desktop with XP and Zonealarm on my Laptop with Vista

Most routers have a hardware firewall (My Linksys one does)

You need a hardware firewall to control conections coming in and a software firewall to monitor whats connecting to the Net and places.

why would you want to filter porn out, filter it in maybe but out, hell no.

thats what the internet is for.

ahhh the porn vortex

Urban Dictionary: porn vortex

:rofl:

I think education, observation and a careful introduction is a much better way than "nannying" kids..

After all, do you put blinders on your kids so they can't see the top shelf in your local news agents?

This can help a little bit and also helps to prevent some nasties

Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File

I use open DNS for my DNS lookups, and because you create an account with them you can block out porn sites, phising sites, specific domains etc. All free.

OpenDNS | Providing A Safer And Faster Internet

Highly recommended for blocking sites such as contravirus pro and other spyware sites too.