BLOCK WEBSITES

Are you worried that your kids visiting websites they shouldn't be? It is obviously not possible to constantly monitor everything that your kids do on the Internet.
However there are some simple things that you can do on your computer to block websites with objectionable content and prevent kids from accessing them.

If there are specific websites that you want to block, you can access a specific file called 'host' in your windows computer. To open the 'hosts' file in your computer.

• Make sure you are logged in as administrator.
• Launch the Notepad app, click on File > Open and open the following location: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.

Go to a new line at the bottom of the file and enter the following text:

127.0.0.1 www.WebsiteToBlock.com

127.0.0.1 www.AnotherWebsiteToBlock.com.

For example, if you want to block Facebook, you need to type the following into the host file:

127.0.0.0 www.facebook.com

Although this blocking technique is quite effective, it has its own limitations. For example, it is quite difficult for you to manually block each of the inappropriate websites that you don't want your kids to access. For more comprehensive protection, I would recommend professional parental control software like Net Nanny.

Although Net Nanny is not free, it comes with a comprehensive list of built-in-security and safety measures that you protect your kids from inappropriate websites and content on the Internet, including:

1. Blocking pornography
2. Blocking vulgar and profane language.
3. Monitoring your kids' interaction on social media websites like facebook and chat softwares.
4. Implementing restrictions on how much and for how long your kids can use the internet.

It is also recommended that you enable the SafeSearch filter on Google, which prevents explicit and inappropriate content from showing up in the Google Search results when your kids are searching for something. To enable this, log in to a Google account using the computer that your kids usually use and then go to http://www.google.com/preferances and enable the Filter explicit results option.

To prevent anyone from being able to disable the SafeSearch filter, you should click on the Lock SafeSearch option.

With these simple solutions, you can prevent your kids from being able to access inappropriate content websites on the Internet.

For further details please visit: http://www.netnanny.com