Submission + - Good low cost free software for protecting kids online. 3
An anonymous reader writes: I have two kids, one 7 and one 8, I would love to allow them internet access on a regular basis. The problem is whats out there, I really don't want them to deal with porn ads and such, but making either a blacklist, or a whitelist myself would take months. So I figured I would ask you, what free software would you use with preferably prebuilt lists to protect your kids online? What is out there with fairly easy configuration ability (to allow for game servers, they love minecraft), but secure enough they can't just bypass it using a google search?
Free Option (Score:1)
Way Too Young... (Score:2)
...for unsupervised internet access. If you wouldn't let them go to the park/mall unsupervised, you shouldn't let them on the internet unsupervised. Porn, in and of itself, will not damage them if they only get a glimpse, especially with you there to explain what they saw.
Adblock will keep the porn adds away, but you need to be there to keep the porn sites from staying open too long.
Forget the filtering software (Score:2)
Educate them as to what they should and shouldn't click on, look at or do (e.g. dont give out your address/phone number to strange people online, be aware that people online may not be who they say they are etc)
Use adblock to block ads (a good idea anyway)
And if you are really concerned, supervise the kid and intervene if they do something you would rather they didn't do.