K9 Web Protection 3.2.36

Publisher's description of K9 Web Protection

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K9 Web Protection is easy-to-use Parental Control and Internet filtering software that helps parents protect their children online. K9 Web Protection has the ability to block adult, porn and other offensive content, prevent spyware infections, and monitor visited sites on any Internet access connection (AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Earthlink). Based on commercial-grade Web filtering controls from Blue Coat Systems, K9 Web Protection is unique among content filters and it is free for home use. K9 can be configured as a porn blocker, a spyware stopper, a gambling filter or various other configurations based on our over 55 Web categories.

Version 3.2.36 includes the social networking category, Windows Vista compatibility, and improved administration tools.

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Editor's review of K9 Web Protection

For a free Internet filter, K9 Web Blocker does its job well, providing a broad collection of options for customizing your remote Web supervision needs.

To run the program, you must register on the Web site to get the free activation code. The control panel is accessible only through the Internet. Uninstalling requires removing the app from the Task Manager, then using its password to delete it from the Windows Control Panel, and finally, rebooting. Because the password gets sent to the e-mail account of the person who registered the program, it's possible that an enterprising user could disable K9 on a shared computer.

Despite those drawbacks, K9 comes with a handful or so of predesigned filters and an option to customize. With more than 50 categories for organizing Web sites, and the keyword-free proprietary K9 rating system, the Web monitoring and blocking aspects of the software functioned well. K9 also has categories for blocking sites that have been detected as potential malware threats. Equally impressive, and a little bit scary, was the log that detailed not just blocked Web sites but also every Web site visited.

K9 Web Blocker is a good, free program for those who are concerned solely with Web surfing, but the lack of a chatware filter leaves some holes for predation.

User reviews of K9 Web Protection

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  K9 Web Protection

  Just what I need

  by: blablupp on 14-Jul-2007 09:04:54 AM

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  K9 Web Protection

  will do the job

  by: barakat_khaled on 12-Apr-2007 12:26:06 PM

  Pros: this program really do the job

  Cons: free registration through the website required with valid email address

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  K9 Web Protection

  I really like but falls on one...ONLY ONE!

  by: Ishigamma on 30-May-2008 01:22:03 AM

  Pros: This is the most effective web blocker I've ever used since 2007. It can block porns, ads and dangerous websites. User friendly. Set it and forget it. It is password protect and you only need to register this software even though it is free for identification purposes.

  Cons: I dont like the fact that when I search images on yahoo, the images icon is viewable. Thus browsing using safe search off and searching for some stuffs that was tagged in relation with some malicious stuffs will show still on the computer screen!

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  K9 Web Protection

  SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE, RELIABLE, and FREE!

  by: keglined on 02-Jan-2008 06:40:27 PM

  Pros: Works as advertised; easy to use; and FREE!

  Cons: Nothing - I first tried a product rated higher by download.com (that is, rated higher by the EDITORS - the last time I make that mistake), but then smartened up and followed the USERS' advice.

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  K9 Web Protection

  Is a very good family filter

  by: kamal jilani on 30-May-2008 02:09:10 PM

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