Restricting

[schase]

Hi all,

We have a iMac on 9.2 Which we put in our customer lounge for customer use - aside from users surfing adult stuff, they're also downloading items and recently crashed the harddrive.

Is there a way for me to restrict any downloads, as well as any recommended software like NetNanny to filter out adult sites?

Thank you "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

-Adm. James Farragut

Stuart

 

[Ecaboodle]

Is the computer on a lan or are connecting straight to the internet?

You need to setup your ratings under IE or Nav which ever one you are using for the bad sites. Microsoft do have there own one to help you with that.

You could turn Immediately remove items after they have been download. Under Internet Explorer Perfsownload:. This would be a short term answer.

If you can't fix it in 20 minutes call someone who can.

 

[schase]

On a Lan,

I tried doing the ie proxy - but even with trusted sites it pretty much closed out the entire internet - because most sites do not have that rating on their webpages.

I checked the remove download immediately, and unchecked autodecode - will this in effect make downloads useless?
Hoping to really stop anything from being downloaded.

Thank you very much. "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

-Adm. James Farragut

Stuart

 

[jimoblak]

I think SmartStuff software may be useful. They offer a line of system and internet protection programs. I used to use their 'FoolProof' on Macs in a student lab.

 

[schase]

Thanks, i'll take a peek.

Right now what I did was created a folder for downloads

and using big secret, hid the downloads folder.

so they can still download, but it will not be accessable.

Not the best, someone can work around it, but it helps for now. "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

-Adm. James Farragut

Stuart

 

[snip6969]

FoolProof is a really good program. It works for me in my Mac Lab.