software wanted

[leong]

dose anyone know were I can download a freeware program for an Imac 233 to stop my young son entering porn site's, I use a PC myself so I'm not sure about these program's.

Thank's

 

[flonejek]

Umm, I had an acquaintance who's parents blocked him from visiting porn sites, and he became kinda sex crazy, because he had no real understanding about sex. I guess what I'm saying is porn is a phase kids go through, and trying to prevent your son being exposed to it may have bad repercussions. If you talk to him about it one on one, and express your opinions on his age and say maybe you don't want him looking at any hardcore stuff, but leave the choice up to him, he will be less likely to view the more harsh content out there. I know for a fact that there is no program that can succesfully block a kid from viewing porn, unless you prevent them from going on the net, as most programs can be disabled/got around (my acquaintance resorted to filesharing programs).

Anyway those are just my opinions , you don't have to take heed of them if you don't want to, and if that's the case then your best bet is to try and sign up with an ISP who has a family filter option. That means your ISP will block access to any adult-rated sites, though your son will still be able to get porn through filesharing programs, so you'll have to set up a firewall to only allow outgoing requests to port 80 (google's your best bet).

 

[Murlyn]

I don't agree with flonejek, but I do agree that the best thing you can do is talk to him about it. Once you have done that I would check http://www.macupdate.com and http://www.versiontracker.com and you should be able to find something.

 

[leong]

Ok thank's, my son is 14 but he has minor autism and it's hard to get him to do thing's for me.