Internet security for iBook G4 for our kid
We let our 6 year old use my old iBook G4 (10.4.11) to play games on a handful on sites that we have deemed OK for him.
We monitor him very closely, but once in a while he'll click off to some other site and, we'll, you get the picture--we swoop in frantically, it's a bummer for him, etc.
Is there an application available that would allow use to set up only certain urls that can be accessed on that machine/browser?(He's using Firefox on that machine FWIW, as the machine is long-in-the-tooth and for some reason Safari is problematic on it).
Thanks
You can change your routers DNS to OpenDNS servers.
DNS - Domain Name Server resolves the name of the web site into a IP Address like 67.342.565.343 which the computer uses to connect to another computer.
This is used in case a web site changes servers, they keep the name, just change the location. DNS automatically solves the location issue for people.
But it also can be used as a content filter, which OpenDNS does with a free service.
http://www.opendns.com/
What you have to do is acces your router and change the two DNS IP addresses to OpenDNS servers.
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Then sign up for the "home free" account at OpenDNS and set the controls, Pr0n, web proxies, hostile sites and so forth. Then OpenDNS will filter out about 90% of the hostile stuff out there, which is enough for the occasional stray/non tech user.
Hard core types who know the name of the site they want to visit (say yourself for example like a particular adult site) can use netcraft or whois to find the current IP address of the site, then punch in the IP number manually into their browser URL address field and go to the site directly, without needing a DNS lookup.
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