Internet filter software for Tiger

I used to have Norton's Privacy control for our computer to filter our internet content for our family, but with the new MacBook and 10.4, Norton does not support this yet.
Does anyone have a good, effective, internet filter that is compatable with 10.4?
Thanks
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Safari has a parental control feature that is pretty
good. Since AOL content is now free, you might look
at AOL's system - they have a robust parental control
feature.
Safari is good if you don't mind having to add every single site that your kids ever want to go to to the white list. That's no good if you've got kids who are old enough to be doing web searches, both for personal interests and for school assignments.
Here's a pretty good list of all kinds of other parental control filters:
http://www.pure-mac.com/censor.html
By the by, no control will substitute for "oversight"
of younger computer users - they know more than most
of us older people will ever know!
I always hate it when people say this. Yes, it's true, but it's like saying "If you don't have time to sit behind your kids and look over their shoulder the entire time they're on the computer, you're a bad parent." We limit our kids' computer time to 30 minutes on school days (and we don't have an X-box or Playstation, so the iMac is where they head), but we have three kids, so that's an hour and a half that I'd have to sit and monitor them, while not actually interacting with them for the most part. I'm not going to waste the time I am able to spend with my kids on a time when they're engrossed in a web-based game.

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