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We are living in Internet age. It is important to teach our children to use Internet safely. Cyber sabotage and sexual abuse are on the rise. Predators are finding their victims online.

Children are lack of experience. Easy to be cheated. Some useful guidelines to protect your children satety on Internet.

• Avoid giving out personal information online. Full name,address,birth date,account number,password
• Explain danger of posting sexually explicit or suggestive pictures online. Even offline also will corrupt children mind.
• Show your children how to choose screen name. Choose screen name wisely can express their personality but still anonymous. For example, sexxycat197 is not a great idea, while doggyfan005 is fine. (more…)

As a network administrator, I have done my best to run anti-virus software on mail servers and use various other network security tools to keep my users safe. I hate website or P2P softwares that waste my bandwidth and bring danger to my network. Normally we use proxy servers or webgate server to scan the online activities. This involve some investment on hardwares and softwares. Sometime, these hardware proxy or webgate is not cheap, might up to thousands bucks unless you use open source linux box.

Now, OpenDNS is the solution for faster and safer Internet, of course it’s Free!:) All OpenDNS features are free. No hardware to buy, no software to install at all.

OpenDNS Features

• Content Filtering
• Phishing Protection
• Domain Blocking
• Adult Site Blocking
• Web Proxy Blocking
• Domain Whitelisting
• more features here

Who need OpenDNS? It’s best solution for parents, organizations, companies, individuals and everybody here that want protection as well as best performance for your Internet. With the features available, unsafe website will be filter and your computer will be lesser possibility to be attack by virus and hackers. (more…)