Porn filter, or web blocker, is a kind of content filtering software which is to protect people, especially children, from being exposed to undesirable material, more than pornography, on the internet.  

How Porn Filter works?

Most of the Porn Filter software blocks websites based on the filtering criteria of pornography, hate sites, illegal or violent content keywords. Aobo porn filter, for example, has a content filtering engine built-in. By checking the keywords in the websites content and URLs, Aobo porn filter will block those websites and stop them from being exposed. However, since filtering software depends on filtering for certain keywords, there were problems. Any search containing bad words was blocked. That included such searches as breast cancer, how to block porn, as well as many others.

Countering this problem, Aobo porn filter set “Strict” and “Regular” blocking level for parents to choose. It also allows adding a safe website to “Whitelist”once you find it’s blocked by mistake. Furthermore, Aobo porn filter records all the websites visited, you can check and add bad but ignored websites to “Blacklist”. All these masterly features in Aobo porn filter assure that children are protected against the latest threats.

 With the help of porn filter, blocking pornography completely, accurately, efficaciously, is an easy and possible task.

The library computer porn issue was raised by Councilman Danny Thompson earlier this summer due to a number of people using public computers to visit porn websites. Yet, standpoints were varied in the Council. It was Councilman Zack Matheny who struck an average on this issue then. Using porn filter software only when a child signs on to a computer is recommended by Matheny, this point view was similar to the suggestions given by library trustees’ board. They also insisted to use bandwidth-shaping software on every computer which would make it difficult to watch porn videos or films using the library computers. Thompson indicated the fact that most of the people exposed being caught watching porn in library are adults but not children. But he still agreed with Matheny’s motion on the basis of children Internet protection. Most of the time, taking precautions is better than doing nothing. Another different point was that blocking everything would be the safest way for children.

Despite of the opposing, this public-plan was approved and the Library computers will soon have a new layer of Internet protection for children by means of installing web filter software. This plan would cost between $8,000 and $10,000 estimated by the city staff.

• *New browse cookies will not be stored
• *New browse history entries will not be recorded
• *New temporary Internet files will be deleted after the Browser is closed
• *Form data are not recorded
• *Address typed into the address bar are not recorded
• *Queries entered into search box are not recorded
• *Websites visited will not be recorded

Users can take the advantage of InPrivate Browsing to erase all web browsing past. These new features focusing on consumers help users to be in control of their privacy information. But the functionality brings explicit porn issues as well. With the InPrivate Browsing mode, teens watch porn, visit bad websites without any tracks. Parents will have no idea if they are safely surfing the Internet. Compared to respecting to their privacy, safety is much more weight.

To protect your kids from porn, to create a favorable Internet environment to your family, to control the web browse disciplines, take the steps below:

1. Install a password protected Aobo porn filter on your family computer. The porn filter can limit your children’s ability to get porn when you are not around. Aobo porn filter will store their web visiting records even if they delete the browsing history or use InPrivate Browsing mode. Furthermore, by the password protected, it’s hard for them to evade the blocking.

2. Install a keylogger on the PC. You can track what the users visited with the keystrokes recording and screenshots recording tools.

3. Place the computer in a public area of your home. This provides the opportunity for parents and everyone else in the home to monitor kids using the Internet.

Here are two practical and effective methods on blocking websites in FireFox.

Use FireFox Add-ons
There are abundant add-ons can do you a favor on blocking websites. Such as BlockSite, Fox Filter, ProCon Latte etc.

1. *Search and Download the blocking website add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon
2. *Load the add-on to FireFox and then install it; restart Firefox when prompted.
3. *Go to add-on preferences; make your own blocking settings.

NOTE: To import a previously prepared or exported list of blocked websites, click the “Import” button in the preferences window, browse the file you would like to import and click “OK”.

Use a third-party web filter

1. *Download Aobo porn filter
2. *Install the software to the computer
3. *Set up the Filtering. A pornography-related keywords list has been already included in Aobo porn filter and you can quickly and easily block porn content by its built-in blocking engine. Aobo porn filter also helps block content according to user’s definition or criteria. Add the keywords or URLs you disallow to the blacklist and safe URLs to the whitelist. Save and then the websites containing the keywords or URLs in blacklist will be blocked.

The two above are effective ways of blocking websites in FireFox, however, applying a professional web filter is much easier when you have many websites to block. Further more, the features of blocking application, password protected, stealthy blocking mode will bring you a much more comprehensive and reliable website blocking experience.

Block any unwanted websites
Aobo web filter provides a blacklist. By adding the keywords or URLs to the blacklist you can easily block any porn and bad websites. There are prefilled nasty, porno words in the blacklist, also you can customize it as you wish. In addition, the whitelist enables you to unblock the websites you don’t want to filter. Aobo Porn filter uses unique content filtering algorithm to block pornographic websites so that no one can bypass the block even though they use a web proxy.

Block Any Games or Applications
Aobo web filter can block not only websites but also certain games and applications from running, such as MSN/Skype/Opera/Facebook. With this feature, kids can’t open the games or applications you don’t want them to use.

Record Website visits from IE/Firefox/Google Chrome
With this added feature, you can check if there’s improper website in the recorded logs and then add it to blacklist to stop kids from opening it.

Check out more reviews of Aobo Web filter form CNET Download.

1.Editing the etc/hosts system file
The HOSTS file is located in different places depending on your Windows version.
For XP/VISTA/7 HOSTS file

*  Open my computer, and browse the C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc In the etc folder
     look for the file HOSTS.
*  Open this file hosts with notepad.
*  Go to the bottom of the file and create. You can block websites by following the format: 
    127.0.0.1www.sitesyouwanttoblock.com
*  Save the file and then the websites you added are blocked now.

It’s easy to block certain websites by using editing hosts file way. If you want to block many websites even keywords, professional porn filter is recommended.

2.Using Porn Filter

*  Download a professional Aobo Porn Filter.
*  Install the software to the computer.
*  Setting up the blacklist and a “white” list provided by Aobo porn filter. Besides the nasty,
    porn-related words prefilled in the blacklist, you can also customize it to include anything
    that you want to block. The “white” list is reserved for safe words and Web sites.
*  Save the settings and run the software.

The software works in stealth mode that your kids will have no idea that they’re being blocked. Learn more information please go to Aobo website blocker user guide.

After her nearly one year’s research and investigation about teenagers and internet usage, “open a web browser and you walk through a global front door,” she says, “letting your kids use the web completely unsupervised is like opening your own doorand saying “They don’t know how to cross the road but they’ ll work it out”. And she also insist her viewpoint that it’s down to parents to protect their children, whether it’s online or on the street.

Teenagers are increasingly being lured into the alluring world of the internet, where they are willingly revealing personal information to complete strangers, and are completely nonchalant about it. It was previously thought that teenagers were duped into revealing personal information by sexual predators posing as teenagers themselves. But recent studies have shown that in most cases, these teenagers are aware that they are creating online friendships with complete strangers, and chatting with adults more than double their age. In spite of knowing these things, they are blissfully ignorant of the dangers of the internet. In spite of constant parental monitoring, a number of teenagers are falling prey to online sexual predators, and are becoming victims of child abuse. With the advent and widespread usage of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter,MySpace,  Orkut and  LinkedIn, teenagers have become more vulnerable to the dangers of the internet.

What parents need to know of surfing with security

Treat the online world as you would the real world: make sure you know something about what you’re children are doing.

Ask your children to show you at least some of what they do a computer, but respect their right to privacy.

Put the family computer in a public place.

Use a web filtering program or parental control software (see Best Buy) to make sure your children can’t access potentially disturbing content online.

Treat the internet primarily as a resource. If your children use it to help each other with their homework, for example, ask how best to manage that, rather than assuming it’s a bad thing.

Why do we need parental controls? Consider this analogy: As we teach our kids to ride a bike, we put on training wheels and supervise them as they ride up and down our driveway. Soon we give them more autonomy letting them ride up and down the street and later around the block unsupervised. Eventually we take off the training wheels completely.

Similarly we also want to slowly introduce our kids to computing and the internet. We can’t hover over their shoulder watching and instructing every move they make but we can still be involved. Using technology such as parental controls will allow you to give your kids some autonomy to explore within the limits we set for them, and spur discussion when they reach those limits.

With Windows, Microsoft’s offerings have been historically lackluster. The release of Windows 7 is just months away and through release candidate testing it’s clear that Microsoft has made massive amounts of improvements to their core product. It’s also nice to see that parental controls have received the same amount of attention.

Here we take a look at the particular steps of setting Parental controls in Win7.

Parental Controls

• 1. To access Parental Controls open the Start Menu and type parental controls into the Search box and hit Enter. Alternatively you can open Control Panel and click on Parental Controls.
• 2. When you open Parental Controls, click on the child’s account you want to set up.
• 3. Make sure to password protect your Administrator account…otherwise anyone can turn off Parental Controls and use the computer with no restrictions.
• 4. If you see a password hasn’t been set when you go into Parental Controls, click on the message and you’ll be prompted and Ensure Administrator Passwords.
• 5. Under Parental Controls mark the radio button next to On, enforce current settings. Then you can go through and control their computer time, games, and programs.

 
Set Time Limits

Click on Time limits to control when your child has access to the computer. If you want to only allow a few hours each day, it’s easiest to left-click and drag the mouse across all of the time slots to block them. Then allow the time blocks when you want to make the computer available.

 
Control Games

• 1. Click on Games to control the type of access your child has to games on the computer. You can completely block all games or select games by ratings and game names. These game ratings are based on the Entertainment Software Rating Board.
• 2. You can also select different game rating systems if it’s more appropriate for your location or if you like a certain system better than another.
• 3. You can also block games based on the type of content it contains…and it gives you a lot of choices.

Control Programs

If you want to restrict certain programs on the machine, click on Allow and block specified programs then scroll through the list of installed programs and block them.

Additional Controls

Windows 7 doesn’t have a Web Filter included like Vista did. If you want additional controls like Web Filtering and activity reports, you’ll need to install a third party software – Aobo porn filter or SentryPC parental cnontrol software. With it you can block access to certain sites and also get access to an activity report that shows you what sites your children have been visiting.

Aobo Web Blocker – Porn Filter checks porn words amounts in the website contents including title, keywords, tags and body and block the porn websites in line with your customizations.

Install Aobo Website Blocker

1. Download and Run the installer:

Download : Click here to download Aobo Blocker
To install Aobo Website Blocker, please double click aoboblocker.exe and follow the instructions. Please press hotkey: “ALT+SHIFT+F1″ to bring up the blocker after install.

2. Restart your computer

At the end of the installation, the setup will ask you to restart your computer to activate Aobo Website Blocker – Porn Filter. Please save your works and restart your computer.

3. Change your Password

Aobo Website Blocker – Porn Filter will auto-run secretly in background after the computer restarted. Please press “ALT+SHIFT+F1″ to call out the window of Aobo Website Blocker – Porn Filter.

Password is required to enter the setting window. Please type in the default password “888″ and click “Setting” . Then you will see the setting window with “Filter Setting” and “Password Setting”.

Note: You can use “ALT+SHIFT+F1″ to call out the window of Aobo Website Blocker or Double click Aobo Blocker shortcut twice to call out the window.

Filter Setting

“Use built-in content filtering engine”: This is checked by default, un-checking it will disable the Filter.

Choose the number of porn keyword, range from 1 to 6, Aobo Web Blocker – Porn Filter will block websites according to the porn keywords amount you set up.
Eg: Porn keyword number as 2 means Aobo will block Porn websites when 2 porn keywords in the web page are found.

• Keyword number: “1″ – the most strict level
• Keyword number: “6″ – minimize the false blocking

Please do not forget to click “Save Settings” to apply changes.

Password Setting

Type in your old password (default is 888) and new password and click “Save” to change your password.

Exit & Uninstall

You can Exit Aobo Blocker by click “Exit” button. Aobo Blocker will still run automatically when the computer is restarted if you “Exit” Aobo Blocker. If you want to reopen Aobo Blocker without restarting your computer, please Double click Aobo Blocker shortcut Twice.

If you don’t want Aobo Blocker to run with the computer starts, please uninstall it. Go to “Setting – About – Uninstall” to uninstall Aobo Blocker.

Register & Free Trial

There is 3-day free trial after you installed Aobo Blocker. If you think Aobo Blocker is helpful, please consider registering it. Only $49.95 needed for a personal license. Thank you.

• Block unwanted web sites by URL or keywords
• Block porn web sites automatically
• Record Website visits from IE/Firefox/Google Chrome
• Block visiting Unwanted websites with web proxies
• Block any Games, applications from running
• Run in stealth and undetectable mode
• Work with all popular web browsers
• Password protection

Effective & efficient Filtering algorithm to block all porn sites: Aobo Porn Filter uses unique ” content filtering algorithm ” to block pornographic websites. It also supports url filtering technology . With this advanced algorithm and technology, you can completely rely on Aobo Porn Filter to keep your family safe from pornography.

The Most Easy-to-Use Porn Filter: You don’t have to do anything after you install Aobo Porn Filter. Aobo Porn Filter uses special technology to fully integrate itself into windows operation system, so you won’t find any Aobo process running on your computer. But Aobo will block all pornographic material automatically. Aobo Porn Filter not only works with different browsers like Internet Explorer,Firefox but also it works with other Internet program (e.g. MSN). After installing Aobo Porn Filter, you just visit “playboy.com” and other porn sites to test. If you are not able to visit them, that shows your Aobo Porn Filter is working now. If you want to change filtering settings, you can always use AoboAdmin to do it.

Key features of Aobo Porn Filter

Running Features

• - Stealth and undetectable Monitoring and Recording
• - Password protection
• - Easy to Use

Filtering Features

• Works with all kinds of web browsers
• Blocks porn web sites automatically
• Running in stealthly and undetectable mode
• Blocks all porn web sites before they loaded to web browsers

Compatibility:

• Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/2003/98/ME

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FAQS

1. Q: What can I get if I purchase Aobo Porn Filter?
A: After purchase, you get the software, free technical support and free 1 year updates!

2. Q: Is my order secure?
A: Yes, of course! We use the world’s famous online Payment system. It is a 100% secure and hacker-safe platform.

3. Q: What’s your Refund Policy?
A: When you purchase Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger, you have full protection.
Aobo Porn Filter has 100% money back protection.