Blocking by X-Stop
Direct Address Blocking (DAB) from X-Stop, the product using high
technology as a solution, blocks with a keyboard trap, almost
instantaneously.
Here's what DAB has to do:
1. User requests a URL through a browser
2.Before the computer even gets the keystrokes, the URL is translated
(if necessary) and compared to the URL list. Because this is done with
numbers instead of letters (there are only 10 digits! There are 255
characters...) the response is nearly instantaneous. If the site is on the
blocked list, the screen is covered, and the violation message is
displayed.
A site not on the list IS NEVER BLOCKED!
What about our list? Our proprietary automated MudCrawler searches out
pornography and other types of sites on the Internet using 44 criteria
that we have found to reveal almost all such sites. Those sites not
fitting perfectly are viewed by our "MudCrawler" technicians for
a final decision. Only by automation can the entire Internet be scanned
for URL list block. And only X-Stop has the technologyto do it.
Word Filtering (Used by many popular filtering programs on the web)
Word filters slow the computer, block a new "surprise site"
every day
Here's what a word filter must do: 1.User requests a URL through a
browser
2.DELAY while remote URL is accessed by system. You'll see
"Looking up host" then "Host www.anysite.com contacted,
waiting for reply," then the "wait" icon while the site
loads into the browser's computer.
3.DELAY while each and every word from remote Web page is compared
against each and every word in the filter list. It's true that computers
can do this type of thing quickly, but there's a wait.
4.If a prohibited word is found, the site is blocked.
The problem is...the blocked site may be a GOOD site! Typical good
sites blocked by word filters include chicken recipe sites, blocked for
the word "BREAST," The White House Web site, blocked for the
word "COUPLE," and a county government site blocked for the word
"MiddleSEX" County! There are thousands more great sites that
are "accidentally" blocked by the word filters.
The word filter will frequently allow a picture from a XXX site to
appear in the browser before triggering a block! Many porn sites will
purposely make all the "words" in the opening page into GRAPHICS
in order to defeat the word filters. It works! And, of course, once a
picture is on the computer screen it can be saved, printed, e-mailed, or
posted to a newsgroup.
Bottom Line
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