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For Parents who are concerning about the web content browse by their
children, this is a great free tools to protect your children.
If you have kids at home...
You are an Internet Parent!
K9 Web Protection is a content filtering solution for your home computer.
Its job is to provide you with a family-safe Internet experience, where YOU control the
Internet content that enters your home. K9
puts YOU in control of the Internet so you can protect your kids. K9 Web Protection implements the same
enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Fortune 500 companies around
the world, wrapped in simple, friendly, and reliable software for your Windows 2000, Windows XP or
Windows Vista computer.
The Web filtering technology divides Internet content
into 60 distinct categories. These categories are stored in the master
database, through which being maintain and update more than 15
million ratings of websites and domains. A Web site will fall into one
or more of these categories, based on the content of the site. To meet
your particular needs and preferences, you can configure the software
to block or allow specific categories.
K9 Web Protection is different from other solutions for the home in several important
respects:
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Service-based filtering – filtering database operates as a
service. It receives and rates over 80 million requests every day, making it the most
accurate content filtering database available. This accuracy is important in protecting
your family, given the Internet's rapid changes and growth. Plus, there is no database
to download. K9 Web Protection won't clog your Internet connection, get "stale" or out
of date, or slow down your computer like other products do.
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Dynamic Real-Time Rating™ (DRTR) – patent-pending DRTR
technology is a very powerful element in this solution, and is vastly different from
the old-fashioned "key word filtering" that is so frustrating to users. Using a
method of statistical analysis and artificial intelligence to rate new or previously
unrated Web pages, DRTR can determine the category of a URL on the fly, without human
intervention. However, DRTR only renders a rating when it is confident that it has
reached an accurate conclusion. DRTR focused on recognizing the kinds of categories most likely to be blocked.
In particular, DRTR is highly accurate in blocking pornography and other "adult
content" sites. This focus for DRTR is particularly important because these kinds
of sites are constantly – daily and even hourly – popping up on the Internet, and
no static database can keep up.
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Automatic updating – Automatic updates of the K9 Web Protection application
ensure that you are always protected by the latest features. For example, in Spring
of 2005, K9 added two new categories solution: Spyware/Malware Sources, and
Spyware Effects/Privacy Concerns. By electing to block sites in these categories,
your computer's rate of infection by unwanted software can be reduced dramatically.
We have a variety of new features planned, and your K9 installation will automatically
receive updates that include them.
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Efficient caching – K9 Web Protection is a product from Blue Coat. Blue Coat is
recognized world-wide as expert in high-performance caching and secure proxy
technology. Blue Coat applied their expertise in K9, so your Internet experience is
as fast, reliable, and safe.
Unlike other filtering solutions, K9 Web Protection ensures the highest level of protection
by building the most relevant ratings database available. Its effective coverage reaches
more than one billion Web pages. With K9 Web Protection, you finally have a chance to build
a family-safe Internet experience for your home, simply and easily.
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