Your safety online, it is up to you.

We all know that if you have kids you don’t want them to see certain things on the internet and I’ve been reading a lot of internet safety websites lately and I can’t help but notice that a lot of the complaining is aimed at the software developers, but it shouldn’t be everything you need is their, just not configured to your specific liking.

So you don’t want your kids to be seeing all these scamming popups well block them, yeah we have problems with double click popups but you can block all popups this will stop unwanted scam advertisements, this is easily done in Opera or Firefox if you don’t have them installed then why are you using the internet, you SHOULD be using at least Firefox or much better Opera, if you refuse to use these programs then you cant complain.

Don’t want anyone searching for certain terms like “kazzaa” you can filter it considering that a lot of people now have routers, routers now have built in content filtering looking through your router you will find content filtering, this will stop any page loading if it shows “kazzaa” inside the page, you can add loads and loads of words to it and more than likely you can find ready made databases for it.

You want to stop programs being installed onto your computer then make the default login to be a guest member, just run “control userpasswords2” this will allow you to auto login the guest account, this stops them installing any programs if you want to install anything just right click on the exe file >> run as >> administrator, this will install it under administrative privileges.

So lets see, these three things will help you stay very safe online, it can be done very easily in a short amount of time, if I get any time I will explain each step in a new post.