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Protect Your Children With
Parental controls
Another security software apart from anti-spyware and registry cleaner is content-control
software, also known as censor ware or web filtering software is a term
for software designed and optimized for controlling what content is
permitted to a reader, especially when it is used to restrict material
delivered over the Web. Content-control software determines what
content will be available on a particular machine or network; the
motive is often to prevent persons from viewing content which the
computer's owner(s) or other authorities may consider objectionable;
when imposed without the consent of the user, content control can
constitute censorship. Common use cases of such software include
parents who wish to limit what sites their children may view from home
computers, schools performing the same function with regard to
computers found at school, and parents restricting what content may be
viewed by children’s.
Parental controls are options, typically included in digital television
services, computer and video games, or computer software used to access
the Internet, that allows a parent to monitor or limit what a child can
see or do and/or time-limit these activities. These controls may allow
for the blocking of television stations using V-Chip technology, the
removal of gore from computer games, the blocking of various websites,
such as those containing pornography, or the automatic censoring of
swearing. This is very vital internet security for a parent actually.
Several technologies exist in creating parental controls for blocking
websites. The API method uses the operating-system programming
interface to gather information about a foreign application such as
browsers and chat applications to seize control of the foreign
application when the information gathered triggers a positive in a
database of banned words. Parental control software using API
technology is limited to shutting down the offending application; in
some cases, a different action like deleting the offending words may be
possible depending on how the offending application is programmed. You should really know where you should let your child on internet.
The next widely utilized technology is the proxy server method. An
application such as a browser will communicate with the proxy server
and the proxy server will then handle the request and fetch the Web
page and return it to the browser. This helps security because the
workstation never deals directly with the foreign server but only with
the proxy, which can also speed up the connection and alleviate
congestion by caching content locally.
Another way security is improved with proxy servers is unlike a registry cleaner, to inspect the
data being sent and received; if by rules of definitions the data is
tagged bad, then the proxy server can act like a firewall and deny the
communication. In this example the proxy server is an http proxy and
receives an http header request for a Web page; the server will parse
the host section or the get section of the header and do a search in a
database of banned (user-defined) words or banned (user-defined) URLs.
If there is a positive match the proxy server never relays the request
to the remote server, but instead either returns nothing or leaves the
response to the local client application to deal with, or returns an
alternative response to the request, such as a custom "denied" page or
a redirection header.
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