A special note to Parents:
You may be unaware of software that your children might have downloaded which could not only violate your privacy rights but theirs as well! -- and check our Software list against your registry and installed programs. Check your computers for file sharing applications as well since these allow direct open access to hard core pornography - See our related editorial Children's Online File Swapping Often Yields Porn "75% of Children Are Willing to Give Out Private Family Information Online," Business Wire, 1/24/01. and "Report: Wired Kids Ready To Leak Private Info," Michael Mahoney, E-Commerce Times, 1/24/01. I advise any parents out there to be on the alert for any words that are highlighted Bright Yellow or blue/green while surfing the web because that would indicate that the Surf+ links are back up and running which can lead to pornography. There are a number of filtering products on the internet. Many of the most popular parental-control filtering products, including Net Nanny, Cyber Patrol and Cyber Snoop, are designed to target sex-related Web sites and are not effective in blocking access to pornography on peer-to-peer software programs, the report found. America Online's parental controls worked only on dial-up connections, not on high-speed connections such cable or a DSL line. Of the seven filtering products tested, only Internet Guard Dog automatically blocked access to pornographic files, though access to music files also was prevented, the report found. Two others, Cyber Sitter and Norton Internet Security 2001 <http://www.symantec.se/securitycheck/>, file sharing. None could be set up to block file sharing only of pornography.
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