 | Family Safe Internet Security™
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Learn how to protect your family from threats that exist online such as pornography and sexual predators. Gain an understanding of MySpace, chat, and other internet content that you may find objectionable.
| "Nine out of ten children between 8 and 16 years of age have viewed pornography on the internet. In most cases, the sites were accessed unintentionally when a child used a seemingly innocent sounding word to search for information or pictures." (London School of Economics, 2002) Our site familysafeinternetsecurity.com will continue to expand through the month of November with many changes and additions. We will be adding more product links for great internet filtering and usage tracking software. The current image links found below enable you to easily find, purchase and download our featured products. (Some of the products can even be downloaded as free trial versions.) This method of obtaining the software will provide you with the benefit of immediate protection and the assurance that you are being protected. Once downloaded and installed these products will allow you to regulate and observe the internet activities of anyone using your computers. If you prefer to do this in a "stealth" manner, many of the products can even work invisibly in the background and can not be inactivated except by you. In addition, we will soon include access to a variety of independent reviews for many of the filtering and usage tracking internet software products we feature. This will provide you with even more information to help you make informed choices about the products that you select. We have just added the first of a number of RSS data feeds to be incorporated into our site. This is in the form of a news feed from Net Family News and features frequently updated information that should be of special interest to our visitors. Other feeds will be added (including podcasts) to provide even broader coverage of current news related to the topic of family internet security. Most importantly, we are still in the process of adding more links to the very best internet safety resource sites. These great websites are all focused on the same mission: providing you with the information needed to understand the risks we face online so that you can proactively protect your family. These informative sites provide a clear, realistic look at the ever changing threats that exist on the internet such as: pornography, cyberstalking, identity theft, cyberbullying, etc. They also provide you with measures that can be taken to keep you family as safe as possible in light of these threats. For more information about the general topic of internet security, visit our parent site digitalguardiangroup.com where you can find out about other websites in our internet security-focused family of sites. Stop back often and watch our site grow. Feedback (click on "Contact Us" below) would also be greatly appreciated! |
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Here are a number of popular family safe software products along with a few that you may not yet be familiar with. If you move your mouse over the image (such as Net Nanny or Content Watch) you will get a short description of that item. Clicking on the item will take you to the products site for more detailed information and to allow you to make a downloadable purchase if desired.
If you prefer to try some of our software items, we have a number of the products available on our site as free trial versions! These products are identified below by their red borders . You can go to our trial software download page by clicking here.
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While not designed specifically as a family filter, the following product Safety.Net from NetVeda is available free offers internet security, content security, advanced firewall protection, and trust controls to block unwanted or harmful applications. You can define granular user or computer specific access controls based on site, content, PICS ratings and time of day. Safety.Net allows you to monitor activity round-the-clock and view detailed reports to analyze usage.
we-blocker shown below is another popular free content filtering product that can protect you and your family from sexually charged sites and offensive web based material.
( we-blocker use with Windows XP requires an extra step in setup.)
(The above two products: we-blocker and NetVeda are quite unique in that very few filtering programs are available for free!!)
AOL Parental Controls AOL is now offering their Parental Control Service free of charge to anyone willing to set up a AOL.com email account. The setup process takes awhile but the product works very well and has many features.
SaferSpace This is a very simple free program that will keep your children from accessing the popular MySpace website where online predators have been found to be lurking in the shadows. (See below)
The following are articles related to MySpace and the risks it presents!
Why Youth "Heart" MySpace Text of a lecture by Danah Boyd funded in part by the Macarthur Foundation.
SafeTeens Home Page A place for teens and parents to learn how to use the Internet safely. No preaching, just good advice.
GetNetWise The Internet is an increasingly important place to work, play and learn for both adults and children. At the same time, we are concerned about the risks we face online. The challenge is to stay "one-click" ahead of would-be pornographers, hackers, child-predators and those who would misuse your and your child's sensitive information. GetNetWise can help.
Child Safety on the Information Highway A short primer written by Lawrence J. Magid, a well known syndicated columnist and technology commentator.
Cyberangels Recipient of a Presidential Service Award, CyberAngels was the first cyber-neighborhood watch and is one of the oldest in online safety education.
NetSafeKids Home Page How can parents deal with this dark side of modern technology and still allow children to explore the cyberworld?CodeAmber The Web's Amber Alert System
WiredSafety The world's largest online safety and help group. Includes info on the rapidly growing problem of cyberbullying and harassment.
Parent Resource Center - iKeepSafe Coalition Everything you need to know to keep your family safe online.Web Wise Kids Equipping today's youth to make wise choices online. Resources for parents and kids.
Monitoring MySpacers A great article with a number of solutions to deal with this problem that is here to stay!
Protecting Our Kids Why you need to know what your child does on the Internet from the Los Angeles DA.
Children and Pornography Online As more and more children access the Internet, they are being exposed to pornography and predators of the worst kind. This is a good article that shows how big the pornography problem is.
Internet Dangers From protectkids.com highlights the primary dangers to kids online with specific focus on the sexual exploitation of children.
CyberTipline The Congressionally mandated CyberTipline is a reporting mechanism for cases of child sexual exploitation including child pornography and online enticement of children for sex acts.
NetSmartz The NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational safety resource to teach kids and teens how to stay safer on the Internet.
Thanks for visiting and please check out some of the other great sites in our expanding family of internet security websites by going to our parent site digitalguardiangroup.com.
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