Surf in Safety

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Because of the constantly evolving nature of the Internet, no one can guarantee that you or your children will be protected from all offensive material. However, you can share the responsibility for protecting children by supervising their access to the Internet. To assist you in policing the Internet we have provided you with links to all the major programs currently available. All internet connected computers at AKCS have Cybersitter installed, and in our view NO ONE should have internet access without protective software. See Mr. Hazeltine's article on The Internet.

Product

Features

CYBERsitter

CYBERsitter will block or alert you to access of adult oriented Internet sites such as World Wide Web pages, news groups, ftp sites, and even filter offensive terms and phrases from incoming and outgoing e-mail, news group articles, and WWW pages. Parents can also set up CYBERsitter to keep their children from giving out their name, address, and phone while on-line. The program also allows parents to control the times when the internet will be accessible or not. (Recommended by Mr. Hazeltine.)

Cyber Patrol

Works with all browsers, including 32-bit browsers.
Basic internet filtering component is available to home users FREE.
Support for standard ratings systems.
Try Cyber Patrol before you buy!

NetNanny

Prevent Address, Phone and Credit Card numbers from being given out on the Internet.  Prevent User definable 'Words', 'Phrases', sites, URLs, News Groups and IRC Chat Rooms.  Block all GIFs or JPGs and release the function when you're supervising.  Prevent your files from being deleted or tampered with. Develop your own dictionary of 'Words', 'Phrases' and subjects. Complete Audit Trail of monitored 'Words', 'Phrases' and user-defined -content on the PC. Operates with all major Online Providers and in e-mail and IRC.

SafeSurf Uses a Three-Tiered Filtering Structure.
Site Database. SafeSurf uses a large database of Web sites containing Adult Material. Sites are discovered with SmartSearch+ ™, an advanced self-learning web searching system, and then automatically transmitted to each of the server sites during the early morning hours.
Rating Codes. Several Internet standards are emerging for voluntarily rating inappropriate content on the Internet. SafeSurf supports all major content coding mechanisms, including the SafeSurf Rating System, automatically blocking documents whose authors believe that they contain adult content.
Stop Words. SafeSurf scans and blocks documents and search requests containing words and phrases which research by Newspaper Internet Services has shown indicate the presence of sexually explicit or otherwise inappropriate material.