Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with
another tutorial here for you, this time on how to block porn and phishing
sites. There's in a few options out there for a while now.
I'm going to cover a couple of them here and show you detail of the ones I prefer.
Now there's the Microsoft family filter which we'll link to their website and I'll
have the link below in the comments, or in the "More Info". You can go in there, basically
download the software, put that on your computer, and turn on web filter, for that
particular user, for that particular computer,
and from the checklist here, you can choose what's the best suited level of
filtering for that person. So if it's just a very young child that is just getting started
you can put it on the lowest level. If you're getting into teenagers, high school
and that, they may need to do research, and need more access for certain things,
you can increase the level. OpenDNS also has something similar, and
it's been said that you don't need software, but, really you do.
As you can see the details below, it's...
if you go into the settings once you create the account, you'll see that it
says, if you have dynamic IP address you will need to use the software
So you can keep it up to date and it will continue to work.
If you don't know the difference between static and dynamic IP addresses,
I've made a video on that as well.
But you could also, ...
So another option is based on the computer itself.
I'm gonna show you here using Windows 7
and the latest version of Internet Explorer 8
Go over to tools,
woops! If I can click on it!
and go to Internet Options.
and we want the Content Tab
Now ignore the parental controls up in the top, that's for something else
that we'll get into in another video.
You want to go into your content advisor.
Two things here, is one is we're gonna enable it and change the settings.
So we go to enable it,
it's going to go into the options; but I've already set this up.
So it's already asked me for my password to turn it on.
So I'm gonna have to go into settings specifically.
and put in my password.
so when you enable it for the first time you can just hit Enable.
and it will take you right in here.
and all we're going to do is go through each one of these options.
Changing the slider bar. That's pretty much it. So for each option here,
You can go from no filtering, to limited filtering, to
unrestricted filtering. Now I said no filtering. Really that means none.
The filtering would be, that it's not going to allow any of this particular content.
So when it comes to any Content that creates fear intimidation etc,
none of it is allowed.
You can say limited, so some stuff will be allowed, but only for an artistic, medical,
educational, sports, or news context. Then you've got unrestricted, where it
will show everything. So depending on what new category is, if the child is
doing research on a particular category and they need to get some more
information on that, you don't want to have it set to none.
You'll have to allow it to limited,
which will see for each one of these things, gives the option of restricted, as
long as it's in the sense of artistic, medical, educational, and so on.
Once you have all the options set to where you want, you just hit okay.
and OK again. It'll prompt you to create your password.
I've already put my password in, so it's not prompting me here.
So if the child's smart enough, they would know to go into the Internet Options,
and go to the content tab.
They'll say, well, I"m just going to disable this.
Yep, let's disable it. OH! There's a password!
So they won't be able to do it.
So unless they know what the password is, they're not going to be able
to disable that. But of course you'll know the password so you can do that.
Now you can also go in here and setup other options.
Have your password hint and so on. The supervisor can type a password to allow all
users to view restricted content.
So they can always call me and say hey can you let me get access to
this particular website and then we'll be able to allow that,
by just typing the password right there on the spot.
You can also add approved websites to
the list, it will automatically allow these websites as exceptions.
OK, that's it for this tutorial. Thanks alot!
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