There are a great variety of blocking and filtering tools in Responsible Surfing. You have enormous control over what is blocked or allowed. Everything from blocking specific websites, filtering out porn, blocking addictive games, gambling activities, compulsive gambling, chatting and watching movies on your home computer.
Responsible Surfing comes with a database of over 50.000 undesirable websites that can be blocked. You (the administrator) can then create your own list of sites that you 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 you (the 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. The games that are in Responsible Surfing's database are those that have been called MMORPG and MMOFPS - games that are considered the most addictive. The administrator can also add his own games to block.
Many people have lost control of chat or spend so much time chatting they never seem to be able to get any work other work done. Therefore it can be useful to be able to block chat programs on a per-user basis or simply on the home computer. 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 the best protection for your family, you can block the use of all other browsers.
Use Responsible Surfing's interface to search your entire computer for programs and executable (.exe) files. Going through the list you can easily choose to delete or block any undesirable application on the computer.
Protect your children 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. Another important factor is also that most of these sites do not just have your kids favorite TV-programs or music - they will also expose your children to all sorts of adult material.
By using Resposnible Surfing you can either block your kids from watching movies on the computer or simply control how much time your child can watch films on the computer (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 family members, e.g. phone number or street address. You can also monitor every time this information is typed and receive instant alerts by e-mail or SMS.
While viewing the list of websites family members have visited on your computers, you can check the content of any website with just one click. If you find websites containing inappropriate material you can easily add them to your personal 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 pop-up 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 specific user from accessing certain files and/or folders on the computer. This tool is very useful 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 setting 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 children so it's important to be able to block pop-ups. You can also specify which sites are allowed to use pop-up windows.