Child safe browsing

reiyushin · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:49

Hi there I've been setting up a little network for the kids in my nursery to work and I'm looking for a way to make their usage of the internet "safe"

Previously we had a password that was required whenever you wanted to go to a website, it came as a popup and unless you gave in the password you didn't go anywhere. The pc it was on died a painful death

and my norton services expired, I think that was what allowed me to password protect the sites.

I'm currently running on firefox and I'm looking for an addon that'd do the job though any suggestions would be appreciated.

I'd ideally like to avoid norton and mcafee this time round.

Thanks in advance.

Linkex · 12 Oct 2011 at 10:09

There are various free parental control apps out there. First one I came across is http://www1.k9webprotection.com/ - I'd try that, if it doesn't suit you, google "Free parental control software" or similar until you find one you like.

reiyushin · 12 Oct 2011 at 10:39

Thanks, it seems it's too early for my brain to function enough to recognise google as an option

k9 looks decent, I'll give it a shot.

reiyushin · 12 Oct 2011 at 11:19

Perfect, thanks for that.

It's got a great feature that plays a dog barking if someone tries to access blocked content

robinbredin · 12 Oct 2011 at 12:00

There was a bit about that on the television news last night, but some ISP's are only offering the protection to new contract's.

TheVoice · 12 Oct 2011 at 12:10

Give it a few more years and the government will be blocking everything for you. No parenting required!

Linkex · 12 Oct 2011 at 12:25

The more the government trys to block web sites, the more people will find ways around it. We are already at risk of a broken/split DNS system, can you imagine if the same happened to the internet itself (Split into 1 or more networks). All this ballache so those in power can say "We are thinking of the children"