Review: NetNanny is a popular web filter and parental control software that works well across different devices. It offers multiple layers of protection through personal accountability, alerts, filtering and blocking, setting time limits, unlimited personalized user profiles, and prohibiting obscene language.
Cost: Three different price plans are available are based on the number of devices that need protection. Thank you for your comment! Arianna did note the concern about reliability and security. The next time we update this post, we will be sure to add a note clarifying that. I cannot agree with Net Nanny as an honorable mention.
It is quite easily defeated by some simple keystrokes. On that note, I have to say that this is a huge, gaping hole in this review. There is no mention of how secure they are. My oldest sons learned how to defeat my protections from their friends in a Christian Boy Scout troop. If you have no other protection in place, please at least do that. But be aware that it cannot protect against image searches, and it cannot filter YouTube videos, other than blocking YouTube completely.
Thank you for adding it! K9 Web Protection is a free program, but the others can get expensive, especially for families with multiple devices. It looks like familyfriendlydns. My wife came up with an application called FamilyfriendlyDNS. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Leave this field empty. Comments Thank you for your comment! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.
Comment Name Email Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Footer Disclaimer The BJU Press blog publishes content by different writers for the purpose of relating to our varied readers. Of course, God Himself is all-knowing and does indeed see it all. You need a filter and Internet accountability because:.
God warns that sexual temptation is extremely powerful. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. Pornography is without doubt a wicked thing which you must resolve to never, ever set before your eyes.
You should by no means think that you are stronger than King David. You cannot honesty and sincerely ask God to not lead you into temptation if you refuse to protect yourself from being a few clicks away from an incredibly vast library of pornography. If you have an unfiltered, unaccountable computer or smartphone, you are constantly a handful of seconds away from incredible evil that can permanently ruin your life, your family, your testimony for the Lord, and can have immeasurable eternal consequences.
You are failing to be on guard and watch against that devouring beast of sin, remembering that your flesh is weak Mark and you are giving place to the devil Ephesians If you have an unfiltered phone, the fact is that you are entering into temptation Mark Do not be surprised if you fall into it.
Woe unto the world because of offences! Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. Vast numbers of Christians have fallen into terrible sin, and vast numbers of unbelievers reject Christ and are eternally damned because their hard hearts are too in love with pornography and other sexual sin to repent and trust in that Savior who always delivers from both the penalty and power of sin when the lost come to Him to be justified by repentant faith alone.
If having an unaccountable and unfiltered Internet meant that your right arm and left leg would be chopped off, would you spend a few dollars and get a clean Internet connection? Who would not? But it would be better for you to lose your limbs than to cause even one person to stumble by your bad example.
Clearly, today is the day to make sure that you, your family, and everyone you are responsible to God for has clean, accountable, and filtered Internet access, or no Internet access at all. The Scriptural facts above validate the terrible power of Internet pornography to lead people into sin. There is an incredible power in the lust of the flesh. You underestimate its power to your ruin! There are a number of solid options for a Christian who wants to honor God and avoid temptation on the Internet by having accountability partners and a filter.
Two good ones are:. Covenant Eyes offers Internet accountability and filtering. Detailed, easy to understand, and customizable records of Internet usage with age-based content ratings can be sent weekly to an unlimited number of accountability partners. They also offer an Internet filter that is customizable for age-appropriate sites; attempts to bypass the filter are recorded on the accountability report.
The filter can even make the Internet entirely inaccessible at certain hours, or restrict users to specific websites. It is highly customizable for appropriate levels of Internet access. For our home, this means that the computers our sons use lose Internet connection at p. Even if parents go to bed early, our "scholars" are not playing online computer games all hours of the night.
If they need to get online for reports, they know not to wait until before downloading the information they need. There are two ways to use OpenDNS to filter your web content. We are going to examine the simple way first, then a more customizable method afterward. Simply by changing the DNS servers in your router, you can block objectionable material automatically.
Generally, you can get to your router through the following link:. Going to this IP address will bring up the control panel for your router. Your control panel may or may not have a password to gain access. Check your router's manual for the default password and change it once you login. You can usually find the manual online.
These software can also be really useful for parents who do not want their kids to accidentally access any inappropriate website. Apart from filtering websites, some software can also track users web activity and take snapshots. Many of these software are actually extensions or add-ons of Chrome and Firefox Browsers. These extensions work similar to the listed software and are capable of blocking websites according to user-defined websites and keywords. Plus, some extensions can also maintain whitelisted websites which remain exempted from blocking.
Overall, all of these software are pretty straightforward and are capable of filtering out all types of web content that you do not want to view. Kurupira Web Filter is my favorite software because it cannot only filter out websites of your choices, but it can also track user activity and create internet usage report accordingly. Due to this, it is ideal for both web filtering and parental control. Kurupira Web Filter is a free web filtering software for Windows.
It is an advanced web filtering software that uses artificial intelligence to block all inappropriate websites. It also maintains a complete web usage report in which you can view all websites visited by a user and how much time a user spends on different websites. This freeware also provides a dedicated Applications section to block certain system programs. By default, all applications with forbidden words are automatically blocked by this software. Similar to web filtering, you can also manually add names of certain applications that you want to block.
From its Applications section, you can also enable Screen Capture feature to take snapshots of the computer screen. Overall, it is one of the best web filter software that you can use for free. K9 Web Protection is another free web filtering software for Windows. This software works as web filter and parental control software. In this software, you get both automatic web filtering and manual web filtering methods. In Automatic Web Filtering , you need to select the level of web protection you need.
There are seven categories of web protection available to choose from, namely Monitor , Minimal , Moderate , Default , High , and Custom. Plus, you can also add URL links of certain websites that you do not want to block. There are many more handy features available in this software like URL Keyword to block websites containing certain keywords , Time Restriction to limit the web usage , Safe Search to remove inappropriate results from the search result , etc.
Overall, it is another really good web filtering software. Any Weblock is yet another free web filtering software for Windows. It is a very simple web filtering software that can block multiple websites and their sub-domains with ease.
Using this internet filtering software, you can block as many websites as you want. By pressing the add button, you can add main domains and sub-domains of websites which you want to block. If you already have a list of websites in excel format , then import that list and press apply changes button to block all the websites at once.
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