Free Internet Filter - K9 Web Protection

To download the free Internet filter click here: K9 Web Protection

Imamother recommends it.

Diamond Member Joined: Oct 29 2006 Posts: 4461

But at the present time it does npt work on 64 bit Vista
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I downloaded it, but when I try to open it I get an error. What can be the problem??
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Posted: Wed, Feb 02 2011, 2:48 pm Post subject:

One very big chisaron with K9 that I did not realize till my dh pointed it out to me is that it's very easy for someone to get your password. If you click on "forgot password", a temporary password will be sent to your email and if your email is not password protected (which mine isn't) then whoever is interested in overriding K9 will now have the password. I don't know why they don't make it a little more difficult to get at the password.

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Moderator Joined: Mar 29 2005 Posts: 18384

No security question necessary?

BTW, it's available for ipods and ipads now.
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Posted: Wed, Feb 02 2011, 3:34 pm Post subject:

why not setup another email address to use only for K9, so that the password will get emailed there instead of to your easily available email?

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Gold Member Joined: Jun 16 2009 Posts: 2088

Pardon my ignorance, but what does this filter protect/block?

For example could I still go bathing suit shopping on websites ?

Moderator Joined: Mar 29 2005 Posts: 18384

It's up to you what categories to allow or disallow.
Even if you disallow a category, you can enter your password for temporary access to a specific site.
If you always want a certain site allowed or disallowed, you can whitelist/blacklist it.

Let's say you don't want social sites -- like facebook -- allowed, but you want imamother and it's categorized as such (I can't check as there is no Linux version)...you can whitelist imamother to allow that but no other social sites. Or news -- only allow theyeshivaworld.com or whatever you'd like.

yes, what HY said is totally true - it's entirely up to you. They also have a feature to allow or disallow internet access specific times of day - for instance, I have it shut off any access at all from 11 PM. (I'ts a good bed-time reminder for me, too!)

One drawback that I've found is that at times some sites come out looking funny. I imagine you could contact them about it if it comes a problem.

the reason sites come out looking funny is because the links that load certain parts of the page are classified as bad and are blocked.
To find out what category you need to allow to let those links come through:

delete your internet activity records
load the webpage again
refresh the K9 internet activity page
and you will see which categories all the links on that page are classified as, and can see what, if any, categories are blocked.
you can also in this way add the specific urls of the blocked links to your whitelist to allow them to load without allowing the whole category.

Beginner Joined: Mar 03 2011 Posts: 7

My oldest is 15, middle daughter 11 and youngest is 9 (got married late), and live in Israel and need info on internet blocking - before my 9 year old boy gets older. I have minimal blocking right now, which turns my internet off at night, and explicit pornography, gambling and violence.

I wanted a bit more, so I tried the bluecoat. Unfortunately doesn't block some of the sites I need blocking for in Hebrew, and the internet rimon charges extra for being turned off at night.

Any advice?