There are a great variety of blocking and filtering tools included in Responsible Surfing software You have enourmous control over what is blocked at the school network. Everything from blocking specific websites, filtering out porn, blocking addictive games, gambling activities, compulsive gambling, chatting and watching movies on the school's computers.
Responsible Surfing comes with a database of over 50.000 undesirable websites that can be blocked. The Administrator can then create his own list of sites that he wants to block.
Responsible Surfing analyzes the entire contents of a webpage instantly, closing a webpage immediately if it contains a forbidden keyword. The software comes with a database of specific words that have been considered inappropriate and the software administrator can add words to the list.
The Responsible Surfing team has created a special database of online games that can be blocked instantly. The games have been chosen for the purpose of preventing and managing internet game addiction and all are part of games. According to reasearch more and more kids that are addicted to online games play these games in school. The games that are in Responsible Surfing's database are those that have been called MMORPG and MMOFPS games that are considered most addictive. The administrator can also add his own games to block.
Most teachers agree that chat programs in schools are serious distractions and affect the alertness of the students chatting during lessons. Therefore it can be useful to be able to block chat programs on school computers and the school internet. Responsible Surfing blocks the most common chat programs, including AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo! Instant Messenger, ICQ, and MSN Instant Messenger.
Responsible Surfing is designed to work with Internet Explorer. Therefore, to ensure best student protection, you can block the use of all other browsers.
Use Responsible Surfing's interface to search your entire computer for executable (.exe) files. Going through the list you can easily choose to delete or block any undesirable application on the computer.
Protect students from downloading inappropriate and/or illegal content, including music, movies, and photos from Peer-to-Peer programs. Another reason it is important to block file sharing programs is that when the students are downloading illegal materials they are on sites advertising pornography and dating services. It is important for schools to avoid that students are using the schools bandwith to download copyrighted material such as music or films illegally.
By using Responsible Surfing you can either block students from watching movies on school computers or simply control how much time they can spend watching films (including MPEG, DVD, AVI, MP3, etc.).
Block certain information being transmitted through chat, e-mail, web forms or e-mail attachments. This feature is an important part of preventing online predators from obtaining private information from your students, e.g. phone number or street address. You can also monitor every time this information is typed and receive alerts.
While viewing the list of websites users have visited on your computers, you can easily check the content of those website with just a one click. If you find websites containing inappropriate material you can also easily add them to your Block List by checking the box next to it.
Gambling addiction on the internet is a rising part of overall compulsive gambling. Responsible Surfing dynamically blocks websites that have gambling related subjects. This blocking feature, credit card blocking and popup blocking is a useful feature for those who suffer from gambling addiction but still want to use the computer and surf the internet.
You can block a user from assessing certain files and/on folders on the computer. This tool is very useful tool for someone that only has permission to e.g. use the internet.
A useful tool if you want to be certain that a particular user does not have the ability to change the settings of the computer.
Pop up advertising is often used to promote adult material, dating services, gambling and some other inappropriate material not suitable for your students so it's important to be able to block pop-ups. You can also specify which sites are allowed to use pop-up windows.