Internet Safety
Video Site “Veoh”: What Parents Should Know
New here? You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Another video site for parents to keep their eye on. Veoh is a way to post video clips to the Web. Anything from your favorite TV clips to your own, home-grown movies. But like any other site that allows hard-to-monitor content from […]
4 Ways to Protect Your Email Inbox
Everybody knows how annoying, offensive, and downright vulgar spam can be. Here are a few tricks to help you keep these messages from making it to your inbox.
Step 1 - Read a site’s privacy policy
Just because it says “privacy” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s about protecting yours. Specifically, it’s supposed to tell you how the site’s […]
The Blog That Keeps on Giving
Does your child blog, and if so, do you know what he or she posts to that blog? It could be that what they post for all the world to see may come back to haunt them.
It could be that they posted about what a wonderful time they had at a school friend’s party. Or […]
Review: K9 Web Protection
I recently decided to try another Internet filter: K9 Web Protection by Blue Coat. After a few days of using it, I have to say I’m quite impressed.
K9 Web Protection is a FREE service. I say service because the way it works is the sites you visit are filtered through their servers as opposed to […]
SiteAdvisor: Fighting the Good Fight
The Web is filled with all sorts of scumware designed to annoy you or spy on you — perhaps both. Fortunately, tools are constantly being designed or updated to help you defend yourself against these threats. One such tool is SiteAdvisor from McAfee.
SiteAdvisor is a add-on to Internet Explorer or Firefox and appears as a […]
Reviewing ContentProtect: A Web Filter
I’ve been a user of ContentProtect for about a year and a half and can say that I like the way it filters offensive content. But there are also some things that I don’t like about it. I’ll tell you about them, but first let me explain what it offers.
ContentProtect (CP) is a Web filter […]
Do You Scandoo?
Ever do a search at a search engine and come across a link that takes you to a site that has offensive material? Well, efforts are underway to protect you from that and more.
Scandoo is just such a service that reduces your risk of viewing offensive material as well as identify sites that may be […]
