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Ask Slashdot: Good Low Cost Free Software For Protecting Kids Online?

Posted by samzenpus on from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-children dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I have two kids, 7 and 8. I would love to allow them internet access on a regular basis. The problem is what's out there: I really don't want them to deal with porn ads and such, but making either a blacklist or a whitelist myself would take months. So I figured I would ask you: what free software would you use with preferably prebuilt lists to protect your kids online? What is out there with fairly easy configuration ability (to allow for game servers — they love Minecraft), but secure enough they can't just bypass it using a Google search?"

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  1. OpenDNS by mcgoohan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Try OpenDNS. It's got good granularity for filtering criteria and you can either filter at your router, or on a per-computer basis.

    Plus, their founder has a /. UID of 17.