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bluepop13
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| Thanks to everyone who was able to answer my question about my laptop... That really helped. I was thinking today if there's a program out there that I could setup on my computer (I'd have only access to settings through the main account, my own) that could limit the access for anyone else on the other accounts to the internet. I'd want something that I can set a time when it would (literally) block them from the internet at that point in time and let them access the internet again at a certain time. It would also limit the websites they go to and what they do as far as what downloads they and other things. Therefore, they couldn't download something unless I gave permission through my account, and maybe, somethings they could download, or something along those lines. Hopefully someone can help me out with this because I have to say, I've never heard of this kind of a program myself.
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jereece
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I use BSafe to control what my web sites my son is allowed to visit. It has a lot of features, but the 2 I like best is the ability to limit sites by subject matter (e.g. pornography, violence, etc.) and it will send you a weekly report showing every web site they went to or tried to go to. For those they tried to go to but were blocked, it will tell you the reason for the block (e.g. outside the time of day limit, pornographic site, violence site, etc.). The service is $50 per year, but it has a ton of control featres. For me, it's well worth the peace of mind that I get.
Hope this helps.
Jim |
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bluepop13
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:35 am Post subject: |
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Hey,
Thanks for letting me know about that. It sounds good but I was hoping for something free if anything, that works quite well. Dumb request since nothing is really ever free in life. But I was searching for something more along the free lines. Anyway, I want this because a few of my friends who get on my computer, their dad wants limited access to the internet since my computer is the only computer they can go online with and do whatever they want. Also because they're up late on a school night online on my computer and he doesn't want that. They have no access to the internet whatsoever on his computer, there for not being able to really do anything, so my computer is a real advantage when it comes to that. Well, thanks for your help but I really do need something free. I don't want to pay for something that is only going to be used for someone else's purpose and just because they get on it, since it's not me who care when they're on or what they do. So thanks again, but I really do need something completely free.
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I use BSafe to control what my web sites my son is allowed to visit. It has a lot of features, but the 2 I like best is the ability to limit sites by subject matter (e.g. pornography, violence, etc.) and it will send you a weekly report showing every web site they went to or tried to go to. For those they tried to go to but were blocked, it will tell you the reason for the block (e.g. outside the time of day limit, pornographic site, violence site, etc.). The service is $50 per year, but it has a ton of control featres. For me, it's well worth the peace of mind that I get.
Hope this helps.
Jim
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zlim
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jereece
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Okay....if you can't afford $50 for the top-of-the-line, you will have to patch things together to get what you want and may have to settle for something a little less. Here are some options.
1) You can limit internet access by accessing your router. Check out your router manufacturer's web site or give them a call. I have mine set to be off between 12am and 6am.
2) Here are the free web site filters that I know of. I have not tried them, so I don't know how well they work.
We-Blocker
BGone
Naomi
K9 Web Protection
If you try one of the above, please make a post and let me know how you liked it.
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Gary66
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| Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| I find that good old fashioned discipline works. As well as education. |
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jereece
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I find that good old fashioned discipline works. As well as education.
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I agree, however you can't watch kids all the time. As they get older, the want and deserve some privacy. Parents need tools to monitor their child in a way that the the child does not feel too intrusive and effeciently so a parent does not have to spend so much time monitoring them. That's why I run BSafe. Sure it's $50 a year, but without me being there, I can restrict the type of web sites he visits, I can disallow him to be on the internet late at nigh, I get a report that shows the web sites he went to and the ones he tried to go to but was blocked. BSafe runs as a service and the database is on their server, so my son does not even know it's there until he gets blocked from a web site. You can't uninstall or disable it without the password and it works with any browser. So I can monitor his activities yet he does not feel that I am invading his privacy too much because I am not looking over his shoulder. It just works well for us.
As for the discipline part, one time I presented him with the weekly report that showed some pretty bad web sites that he tried to go to, so I took the internet away from him for a month and made him read a book called Every Young Man's Battle. Ever since then, the weekly reports have been much better.
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Gary66
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| All of My families PC's are in the same room. I do not have a problem with my Daughter going to sites that are not good as she has been taught not to and I trust her. Her Computer Science teachers have intructed her as well. Her computer use is the least of my worries. :whistling: |
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silmaril8n
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As for the discipline part, one time I presented him with the weekly report that showed some pretty bad web sites that he tried to go to, so I took the internet away from him for a month and made him read a book called Every Young Man's Battle. Ever since then, the weekly reports have been much better.
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Looks like a good book. I've wondered how I would deal with issues like this when my son got older. I just might pick this up and see what it offers. Kudos to you for going above and beyond the simple "you're grounded" method for discipline. Not that it doesn't work, but positive reinforcement with an additional tool to deal with the issue seems to be much more healthy. If he is still being careful then the proof is in the results! |
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jereece
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| If he is still being careful then the proof is in the results! |
I check the report every week and things are much better. I also think he now understands the dangers. The book is good.
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Jim |
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djweaver
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject: SafeEyes 2006 [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| My wife and I are using this for our son. It can be installed on up to three computers if I remember correctly. Anyway it's easy to use and configure, and has the normal allowances, subject blocking, and url blocking that most do. www.safeeyes.com |
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usasma
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:45 am Post subject: Re: SafeEyes 2006 [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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I use http://www.we-blocker.com for our kids. It's free, but you must disable Fast User Switching in XP in order to use it. Works quite well.
Also, the free Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit can be used to limit access. Just google for Shared Computer Toolkit. |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: BSafe, huh? [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| jereece wrote: |
I use BSafe to control what my web sites my son is allowed to visit. It has a lot of features, but the 2 I like best is the ability to limit sites by subject matter (e.g. pornography, violence, etc.) and it will send you a weekly report showing every web site they went to or tried to go to. For those they tried to go to but were blocked, it will tell you the reason for the block (e.g. outside the time of day limit, pornographic site, violence site, etc.). The service is $50 per year, but it has a ton of control featres. For me, it's well worth the peace of mind that I get.
Hope this helps.
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Jim, I'm going to assume you know how this program works. I honestly do not. Now, there is a bit of moral and near tyrannical issue here - I'm nineteen years old, just home from college and spending the summer at my father's house. There are numerous details with that, but my life story isn't really needed at the moment. Here is the situation that I am presented with at this point in time ( regarding BSafe Online ):
This computer is mine. I bought and paid for it with money that I personally earned while working three years at Hell.. I mean, Wendy's. I can understand restricting someone whom is not legally permitted to enter some websites, and slap something like BSafe on his or her computer, but I'm going on twenty years old, here. I live on campus during the school year, and stay here during summer, winter, and spring break. Its much cheaper that way, and money isn't particularly coming out of our ears in this family, if you know what I mean.
I used to own an older computer, which was abandoned when I sixteen. My father found an excess of pornography on it while doing some maintenance on it.. for whatever his reasons; I didn't really care to ask. Yes, I was a blatant heathen when I was younger, but that is besides the point. He had the gaul to purchase and install BSafe on my computer, based entirely on the fact that he found porn on a computer from three years ago. It'd be one thing if he put it on there then, but this particular computer is mine. Its in my name, bought with my money.
He refuses to remove it. I don't care about pornography - I'm not a lonely teenager anymore; in fact, I'm happilly engaged. Also besides the point, but the point still remains. Anyways, I own and pay for a forum on www.xeneth.net, which I may no longer access due to this program. "Father dearest" finds it necessary to block this, as well.
I am presented with three possibilities here.
1. Hack the living hell out of BSafe.
2. Format my harddrive
3. Find some backdoor into completely disabling it.
I'd much rather go with option number three, but BSafe isn't the easiest thing to labodomize.
This thread comes up as one of the first items when you do a Google search for 'disable "bsafe online",' and after giving it a read, figured that it'd be worth a possible ask.
If you could either help me with this problem, or direct me to someone who could be of help, then I'd be very grateful.
My apologies if this is very off-topic, but this issue is driving me insane. Only a slew of relatively immature curse words can actually explain how annoyed I am with all of this, and I figured that I should spare you all from that. |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject: Re: BSafe, huh? [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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Sorry for being so brusque. I do understand how you feel.
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jereece
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject: Re: BSafe, huh? [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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nayto,
I just replied to your post here. |
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