Any free Adult site filtering software? - Page 2

Web-Junkie · 26-02-2011, 00:58

Thanks, I'll try both 'when' they decide to get back to me.

Web-Junkie · 26-02-2011, 17:17

OK, said person has now brought the laptop round but didn't wan't the router touching as it's 'working' and didn't want to mess about with it, FFS!! They are on O2 broadband btw.

Ended up using IE's Parental Controls (tried explaining the software options but may as well been speeking to the table!) had to give their account a password as they had admin rights and demote the account they want monitor to a Standard User as that had admin rights as well! So that's all I could do, IE's Family Safety filtering is now enabled in the Standard User account and they've fecked off happy!

Cheers for all your suggestions, rep on the way!!

Graham M · 26-02-2011, 17:28

You could just set the Open DNS address on the particular machine, it'll override the defaults sent by the gateway

Web-Junkie · 26-02-2011, 22:32

It's a shared laptop so don't think that would have worked and I don't think you can have per user DNS settings? They seemed reluctant to install software or fiddle with the router, tried showing them OpenDNS but for whatever reason they preferred the Parental Controls option.

Their loss though!

smcaul · 26-02-2011, 23:25

yep certainly is their loss, openDNS is great, means I can quite happily let my 7 yr old daughter and her friends play on her PC in her room as i know the whole lot is locked down tight.

Oh, and you can get round openDNS by setting the DNS manually on an individual PC as I have done with my work one in my home office, all others in the house use dynamic settings from the router so go through openDNS.

dragon · 23-03-2011, 22:18

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Originally Posted by smcaul

yep certainly is their loss, openDNS is great, means I can quite happily let my 7 yr old daughter and her friends play on her PC in her room as i know the whole lot is locked down tight.

Oh, and you can get round openDNS by setting the DNS manually on an individual PC as I have done with my work one in my home office, all others in the house use dynamic settings from the router so go through openDNS.

Depends how advanced the router is

If you have a DD-WRT/Tomato or other router that supports configuration of it's outbound NAT you DST-NAT port 53 to openDNS.

Then it doesn't matter what DNS servers are set on the client device as that request is going to goto openDNS regardless.

Then the user would have to do something like use a VPN/Proxy to get around it