Controlling Access to Inappropriate Content

     If you have a copy of Internet Explorer, then you already have some form of parental control on your machine for the web. All you have to do is enable it. 

     In Internet Explorer, click on view, options. Then select the Security folder. You can enable the ratings. The program will prompt you for a password which you will need to change the settings, and enable or disable the rating system. 

     Windows 95 comes with RASCi  http://www.rsac.org/, but other rating services such as SafeSurf http://www.safesurf.com/, and ASASP http://www.asasp.com/ can be also enabled. The website providers voluntarily rate their own sites and register them with the rating services. All websites that contain materials with ratings more unacceptable than the settings and unrated sites are not loaded. A window with a password prompt comes up instead. However, this protection only works on the web.

Controlled Access Programs

     We would like to hear from you to see how you handle this issue so that we can share with our community.  If you are interested, we are going to put together a course on protecting your child using the computer and the internet.  Oprah show, net nannie site search, contact MCN and Triangle Telephone.

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