On Monday 14 May 2001 14:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a net nanny for mandrake 7.2? If not is there a way to keep my > children safe from undesireble sites? Any help would be appreciated. > > Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com > Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! No net nanny. There are firewalls that can be used, but the safest and most comprehensive system for this purpose (though it is designed for another) is probably MandrakeSecurity, a stand-alone distro that serves as a firewall between a local network and the internet. With a web browser from one of the local computers it is possible to restrict access in many ways and to make sure pop-up ads all happen as one transparent pixel. And you are free to define your notion of undesirable, statring with any list of domains that displeases you. (Some versions of restrictive software keep their actual bad lists secret, in windows. Of course here that would be totally unacceptable.) An old $50 computer from the surplus market with a P75 or even a 486, 16Mb of RAM and 500-600Mb of hard disk, together with one interface for the internet and one for the local computers is all that is needed to run MandrakeSecurity. Of course it also filters in the other direction, meaning for example that you can cut local people from using services as well as sites, like AIM or IRC. Civileme
