It also offers site lists for automatic blocking. Parent can add controls for games, programs and files that they want to be restricted. 39.95 - free updates to site database. NetGuardian NetGuardian - a product which screens accesses. Back to Top Net Nanny Net Nanny blocks various inappropriate sites and subject matter that the user identifies as unacceptable.
Parents can build a collection of forbidden words.
Setup can be complicated, and Net Nanny's constant scanning makes your system noticeably slower. To cope with the problem of pornography, bigotry and other obscene material on the Internet, Microsoft and Netscape have agreed to a rating system designed to allow censoring of unwanted content. Microsoft's browser will examine the content of a web site for a PICS rating and based on this rating allow users to control access to the material at the web site. Three fundamental problems exist with this approach. First, it relies on web sites to post a rating that conforms to the PICS standard.