Filtering Porn Sites off the network

Hi there,

I have children using this internet connection.
I need to filter sites of a pornographic nature off the network.

Its good enough for it to be a windows application that installs to machines using the network.

Does anyone know any good freeware ones out there ?

Much thanks in advance.

 

Free membership and use of the OpenDNS filtering should go a long way to reducing the chances of porn being available on your network.

 

We use the commercial version of this at work
http://www1.k9webprotection.com/
This is their free consumer product.

 

There's also some good info coming from this thread.

 

Thanks for all the help !

Very much appreciated.

 

My question is, have you had problems in the past, or recently with the kids cruising to Porn sites on the Internet? Keep in mind, that these filters will also stop honest browsing to medical sites and other informational sites or stories, that it may flag as porn, but it really isn't.

A better free option, is to build your own router with either Smoothwall, FREESCO, pfsense, m0n0wall, which can allow you to filter through a proxy on the router. You would have to set up the proxy on each computer. Only reason that I would not use Opendns on each computer, is due to if the users, or guests know how to change the dns on the computer, they can easily go around the restrictions you have put in place. Only place that they could not change it, would be if you have a router that allows you to use OpenDNS in its settings.

 

Open DNS is an option.

I could block the router from giving out DNS servers possibly and so without Open DNS, there is no DNS for clients of the network ?

I just downloaded FREESCO. It seems you have to dedicate a machine to being a freesco environment ?

 

OpenDNS, you set up on your router the dns IPs for that site, and everything routes through there. Offside is that there can be a slowdown in browsing, etc. With FREESCO and other router projects, they are exactly that. They need a dedicated machine to run on. FREESCO has a large learning curve.

 

You can say that again.