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SavannahLion:
Any suggestions on "clamping" down on the network for a 9 year old?

Fiance let her use the PC one day to use Funbrain.com and the 9 year old found herself on some crap website where she "won" a $1000 Wal*Mart gift card as long as she enters a bunch of personal information. Good thing she has no clue how to fill any of that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out.

So, any suggestions? I kind of want to avoid shelling out a shitload of cash ala Net Granny. I also don't feel like reconfiguring the entire network. I can restrict the 9 year old to a single PC. The rest are all laptops or headless machines anyways.

Silas (son of Silas):
1. Create a local account for her on the PC she uses.

2. Install Firefox (if you are not already a user of it) and then google adblock plus Firefox plugin. Install it. That will eliminate embedded adverts in web pages.

3. If you are running windows, checkout K9 http://www1.k9webprotection.com/ web protection. It blocks all the other nasties out there. It's been a while I used it, but as a recall you can download and install it free.

4. Supervise her when she's on the Internet.

Ed_McCarron:
OpenDNS.  Set it for insanely protective and let 'er rip.

RayB:
Install Ad blockers. That's how she got to that stupid site to begin with, by clicking an ad.

Teach the difference between content and ads.

But Most important: Set exactly which site(s) she's allowed to go to and set up desktop shortcuts to those sites. There's no reason for her to be Googling for random sites or typing them in manually and therefore you don't need to worry about it. In my experience at that age they are perfectly happy going to a small number of very specific sites and they will happily spend all their time on them.

Additionally at that age, the computer they use should be in a common room, and you should be occasionally checking on what she's doing.

Blanka:
Download a big localhost filter list on your router. They keep any system in your house free from a lot of trash.

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