July 7, 2011
Any website you visit potentially tracks your browsing habits, loads annoying ads, or distributes malicious software. Most of the time, common sense and standard malware protection software can help you steer clear of the worst sites. If you would like to add an additional layer of security, however, and block known offenders, you should look into the possibilities the Windows Hosts file has to offer.
November 19, 2010
Most parents understand the dangers of leaving a family Internet browser unprotected from the web. The browser is an instant doorway to filth, perversion and images of gore and violence. While you may not want to shelter your children from learning about the dark side of life, there is a certain age where it’s more [...]
October 5, 2009
The Internet is a wild, wild place. It has plenty of advantages for sure but it also has its fair share of disadvantages, traps and scams. Hardly an ideal place to let kids roam around unwatched. They can learn a lot from the Internet these days. The nature of what they learn is mostly up [...]
August 16, 2009
As parents of two children, 13 years and 18 months, my wife and I worry about how our children will spend their time at our computer. When it comes to the older child, we especially worry about his access to mature adult content. However, we don’t care for content filtering programs which has been shown [...]
June 13, 2009
Did you get Privoxy set up? Put together a good white list of sites? If you haven’t, head on back to How To Restrict Access to Websites with Privoxy [Part 1] before continuing with this tutorial. Part Two is all about locking down Internet Explorer so it can only connect to the Internet through the [...]
June 10, 2009
This is a method that is best used to control network users to only have access to a limited number of websites. Alternatively, you may use it on home computers to restrict access to websites that you trust. Once the system is in place, you can work with Privoxy further to hone it to your [...]
March 18, 2009
As I’ve said in the past, RSS feeds and web syndication have become the de facto standard of delivering new content to the world. Whether it’s on a blog, a news site, a social network or a podcast, it doesn’t appear that there is anything that can’t be converted into an RSS feed of some [...]
January 2, 2009
I’ve always been very proud of the fact that I started using the computer at nine years old. I remember the days that my brother and I would spend countless late nights on the old Franklin 64, playing text-based adventure games off a floppy disk, as the computer itself had no hard drive. Fast forward [...]
October 29, 2008
I needed a quick easy solution for a small network I was managing. The owner was concerned about some of the employees browsing habits. He said there were issues with online gambling and pornography! GASP! Imagine that? People doing bad things on the internet….that almost never happens….right? Wrong. When you have a large environment, you [...]
