[dba-Tech] Child's play

Francisco,
On the first point - I've installed (and support) dozens of NIS
installations and have never had an issue like you describe. Of course I run
it on one of PCs so i know it in and out pretty well. I would like more
details :o)

On the second point you are absolutely correct. Most content filters are for
the most part a "reactive" type of filter. Of course Norton liveupdate
handles updating urls to block as welll as well as AV updates, but it is
still mostly reactive in nature and will never be perfect.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco
Tapia
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:31 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Child's play


FROM personal experiance... NIS has some wierd side-effects,  A user
brought her pc to me when she somehow locked her self out of the
internet.... as long as the firewall was up it would not talk to the
DSL or through the router... but when I turned it off it would
function like normal.  I even tried setting it to allow IE or FireFox
all the way through w/ full permissions and it did not function
correctly.

2ndly... all Content Filtering Software falls short at some point or
another... all the obvious bases are covered... but you will get some
content that makes it through it's filter because it can only Filter
sooo much.



On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:03:42 +0100, Andy Lacey
<andy at minstersystems.co.uk> wrote:
> Yea I wondered about NIS. Used NAV for ever but never NIS so not seen the
> parental controls. Sounds the right sort of thing. Thanks John.
>
> -- Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> > John Bartow
> > Sent: 28 September 2004 21:34
> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> > Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Child's play
> >
> >
> > Andy,
> > I generally install Norton Internet Security for people that
> > ask me to work on their home PCs. Its got AV, Firewall, and a
> > host of other goodies and is easy on the end user. If they
> > already have NIS on their PC they can turn on the "Parental
> > Controls". If they Norton AV they can get a good price on an
> > upgrade. Sometimes Norton offers competitive upgrade prices
> > too. Parental Controls can be set to allow/disallow content
> > according to general age and then tweaked in a manner you wish.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:51 PM
> > To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> > Subject: [dba-Tech] Child's play
> >
> >
> > Hi folks
> >
> > A colleague found her 9 year-old daughter Googling a rude
> > word the other day. Not such a prob but it got her thinking
> > about protecting her child from accessing porn sites, getting
> > rude popups and so on. And then there are chatrooms. God, a
> > whole nasty world of stuff that I never worried about cos the
> > PC in our house is very public and anyway mine were much
> > older by the time they came to use it. Anyway, does anyone
> > with kids have any products (preferably free or dead cheap)
> > they can recommend for this kind of issue.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > -- Andy Lacey
> > http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
> >
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