How to Protect your Kids Online using OpenDNS
Back in October 2008, 18 and 19 respectively I wrote up an article on how to Speed up your web browsing with OpenDNS and How safe is your child from the Internet. This time a post with the combination of those two articles, how you can protect your precious kids online using OpenDNS technology. We all know that you can’t monitor your kids activity online at all times but there are technologies that can help you do that work for you. One of it is OpenDNS. I will show how you can fully use OpenDNS to your advantage especially on the protection of your kids.
OpenDNS gives you the ability to filter out websites that can possibly harm your kids. After setting up your free account you can go to your dashboard and click “Settings” to setup the filtering options.
On your first setup it will ask you first to add a network.
After adding a network, It will then ask you a name for your network. You can name your network to anything that you prefer. On this example I named my network “Home”.
After naming your network you can now setup the content filtering level of your network. You can set the level base on your preferred type of protection or you can choose “Custom” to selectively choose what types of websites you want to block.
If you want to specifically block a certain website you can go to “Manage individual domains” and add the domain that you want to block. You can also get statistic logs which will show you what type of traffic was blocked and other stats to allow you to better filter content.
OpenDNS is one of the great way to protect your kids from any undesirable internet contents but you can also try different web filtering software that can give you peace of mind knowing that your kids are safe while surfing the internet.
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WOW! That’s really great technology! NOw my child is safe for using internet. Thanks to OpenDNS
I was just thinking – if their average user looks at, say, 1,000 web pages per day, that’s 1 million users! I find it hard to believe that they would have that many users already.
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I’m using this in my business. Not only they protect the kids from porn but also eliminates unnecessary ads from websites you visit. This is one way to protect you from unwanted malwares and viruses.
indeed OpenDNS is absolutely the most secure DNS service available and the more SysAdmins who choose to use the service, the safer and more secure the entire Internet will be.
My children are very hooked on online computer games and this worries me. I know there are bad pop-ups that are harmful to kids and I was curious when I got hold of your title. This really was very helpful and really awesome. But considering the thousand bad websites, am I going to enter all of it (which is very impossible). How are we going to deal with completely shunning off unwanted sites from entering my computer?
Open DNS Rules, I use it all the time for my customers and they love it, its a great free service, and great for securing whole networks when you put the DNS settings into the router..
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thanks! its really very helpful for me. i have seen this kind of technology first time. i liked it and the way to describe for the technology.
thanks for telling all the process for saving our kids from opendns. actually tihs is very safe for kids and computers also..
thanks once again. please keep posting such kind of blogs along with the complete procedures so that no one can get any problem to follow that.
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its good thing to keep your kids away from OpenDNS. i appreciate this idea.
That’s really great software.nice tips, I really like it and implement it on my home.keep it up friend.
Frankly speaking I have tried this software and it really work cool.
Great info, That’s really great software.,
I really like it and implement it on my home to protect my children going to wrong web.
thanks.
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wow! Amazing.. I’ll let other mothers know about this.
WOW! That’s really great technology! NOw my bro is safe for using internet. Thanks to OpenDNS
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This is really a good gadget that will somehow help the parents be always on the lookout. A guardian of sort.
Really a great technology. I will implemented opened on my home and on my bussiness.
It’s easy as 123 and it is easy to set-p as well. I’m using this on my Internet Cafe and it absolutely filters pornography and any harmful sites such as software cracks and free cd keys and serial numbers.
This is genius! So what’s happening is the piece of software is changing your DNS info to the openDNS and forcing the browsing through their servers?? is this somewhat like a proxy? do we have to be concerned about security and personal information? any possibility for sniffing? please elaborate abit. I’ll definitely give this a shot!
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Yes, it is really a great technology. I’ve implemented opendns on my home and on my business and some web filtering software.
I really love opendns it brings you not only browsing optimization but also security