FairBroadband

I am using FairBroadband because of their Parental Control service
which cuts off access to X-rated sites at the source.

This means http://www.fairbroadband.co.uk switch off x-rated sites
and my teenage kids have no chance to view these sites, even
if they are home alone or in their own bedrooms.

I have tried all the other parental control software offers, but my
kids know how to uninstall these from the computer.

I wish there was an option whereby I could add sites I find
offensive to the pool of sites that has already been selected
by http://www.fairbroadband.co.uk.

There's a business idea.

Hellothere wrote:
> I am using FairBroadband because of their Parental Control service
> which cuts off access to X-rated sites at the source.
>
> This means http://www.fairbroadband.co.uk switch off x-rated sites
> and my teenage kids have no chance to view these sites, even
> if they are home alone or in their own bedrooms.
>
> I have tried all the other parental control software offers, but my
> kids know how to uninstall these from the computer.
>
> I wish there was an option whereby I could add sites I find
> offensive to the pool of sites that has already been selected
> by http://www.fairbroadband.co.uk.
>
> There's a business idea.

You could always buy a router (such as a Netgear) & block them with
parental controls. If you don't let them know the password (after
changing it of course) you have effectively blocked them even closer
to home & you have to chance of adding sites as they become known to
you.

£1/min phone support - bring it on...

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:59:39 -0700, in uk.telecom.broadband ,
Hellothere <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have tried all the other parental control software offers, but my
>kids know how to uninstall these from the computer.

Huh? Don't give them Admin rights on the PC. Any decent version of
Windows and all versions of MacOS / Linux will allow you to create
'normal' accounts that cannot alter the PC configuration.

Also:
Keep the kids' Pc in a public room.
Tell them you will be randomly monitoring the sites they visit.
(you probably won't even need to do this but its trivial to do if you
have a decent router that can log connections)

Note that the solution is not technological, thats only going to
assist you.

>I wish there was an option whereby I could add sites I find

no matter what you do, new sites will appear that you don't know
about. Education and training are better fixes.
--
Mark McIntyre

Hi,

OpenDNS allows you to filter sites based on several catagories. This would
work with any ISP.

In conjunction with a limited account (XP, Vista) where users cannot alter
settings would seem to offer a solution.

However there is no substitite for parental supervision.

Kind Regards

Simon

"Simon Zerafa" <(E-Mail Removed)*no-spam*.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> OpenDNS allows you to filter sites based on several catagories. This would
> work with any ISP.
>
> In conjunction with a limited account (XP, Vista) where users cannot alter
> settings would seem to offer a solution.
>
> However there is no substitite for parental supervision.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Simon

The original poster, "HelloThere" is a spammer who's also spamming
uk.rec.cars.* ng's and it's very unlikely that he was asking a serious
question.

John

Hellothere wrote:

> I am using SPAM SPAM SPAM

Simon Zerafa wrote:

> However there is no substitite for parental supervision.

Requires an interest in parenting in the first place.

Graham

"Hellothere" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am using FairBroadband because of their Parental Control service
> which cuts off access to X-rated sites at the source.
>
until they use TOR or proxy server! They just use P2P, newsgroups or go
to a friends house. You must be stupid if you don't realise that. Stop
spamming, it's been tried before and doesn't work.

"tony h" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> £1/min phone support - bring it on...
>
>
>
You can always tell when an ISP is a bit short, they cause a few problems
until the required income is reached.