Free Internet Filter

For almost 2 years, our family has used Blue Coat K9 Web protection as our web filter. It has provided both protection and accountability. It’s filters protect us from both spyware and inappropriate sites. When it detects a “problem” site, a screen will come up telling you the type of site it has detected. My husband knows half of our password, and I know the other half. Only on a few rare occasions did it mis-detect a site (it thought a coupon site was spyware.)

You can download their free web protection here.

Here’s what their site says:

Blue Coat® 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 Web Protection implements the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat’s Fortune 500 customers around the world, wrapped in simple, friendly, and reliable software for your Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista computer.