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SafeDNS Web Filter Outperforms OpenDNS

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Alexandria, VA, September 23, 2015 — /EPR INTERNET NEWS/ — SafeDNS (https://www.safedns.com/) web filtering service is awarded Approved Parental Control Product by AV-Comparatives, a world leading test lab of online safety and antivirus solutions.

SafeDNS filtering system has been reviewed along with five other parental controls and got awesome scores from AV-Comparatives (http://www.av-comparatives.org/parental-control-reviews-2015/).

Having been vigorously tested in real-world environment SafeDNS web filtering solution shows great results in AV-Comparatives Parental Control Report of 2015. According to this report SafeDNS blocks over 98% of pornography. With zero rate of false positives (false alarms wrongly produced when trying to access expressly child-friendly domains) SafeDNS filtering system clearly proves its efficiency without overblocking its users.

SafeDNS test results outperform those of 18 similar products reviewed last year by AV-Comparatives (http://www.av-comparatives.org/parental-control-review-september-2014/). Overall result of SafeDNS web filtering service is significantly higher than the average score of all the products in last year’s Parental Control Report.

SafeDNS beats most of the competitors including OpenDNS, recently acquired by Cisco. Though OpenDNS is often regarded globally to be the leading developer of cloud web filtering solutions SafeDNS obviously surpasses it in general AV-Comparatives assessment as well as in blocking particular categories of harmful content online.

SafeDNS has proved to be a very reliable tool for blocking pornography which is the same or better than the 13 of the other parental controls tested last year. Many competing solutions in AV-Comparatives report are less efficient than SafeDNS in filtering out other child-unfriendly online resources (such as Abortion, Gambling, Hate or Weapons).

The company has achieved these outstanding results by constantly improving its products and service offering its customers sophisticated web content filtering solutions which provide customers, from home users to telcos, with an easy way to manage and control web access and an additional layer of online security against malware, phishing and botnets.

Company Bio: SafeDNS is a start-up founded in 2010 for developing cloud based web filtering solutions. In 2013 SafeDNS launched commercial version of its service for home, educational and corporate users. In 2014 SafeDNS released its web filtering platform for ISPs and mobile operators.

SafeDNS filtering servers are located throughout data centers in North/Central America, Europe and Asia. Every day the company processes over 2 billions queries from users of its filtering service. Now SafeDNS products and cloud service are used by more than 300 telcos, 4 000 organizations and tens of thousands of home users and about one million of anonymous free users worldwide.

Contact-Details: SafeDNS
Julia Neganov
PR Assistant
pr@safedns.com
Skype: july669

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Child Safety, Entertainment, Internet, ISPs, Online, Social Networking

No More Playtime: Children Spend Their Free Time Staring at a Screen Instead

A new generation hooked on digital content is shunning traditional playtime in favour of watching TV and surfing the internet, according to new research from uSwitch.com, the independent comparison and switching service. The report also reveals a high proportion of children using the internet and watching TV unsupervised in their bedrooms after being sent to bed, while an alarming number of parents have yet to set up the necessary control measures to protect them from viewing unsuitable content.

In a typical day, outside of school hours children spend an average of 1.4 hours online and 1.6 hours watching television. Not only does this mean that they are spending 3 hours a day staring at a screen, but it suggests that surfing the internet is set to take over from watching TV as the most popular children’s recreational activity.

But where does this leave old fashioned playtime, and are we creating a new generation of internet addicts? Children today have a plethora of digital distractions whether they are in the form of games consoles such as the Wii, or social networking sites such as Bebo, with traditional playtime all but lost. Worryingly, 29% of children now have a computer in their bedroom and almost two thirds (63%) of these use it before going to sleep. Similarly, nearly half (49%) have a TV in their room and 64% regularly watch this in bed.

Despite nearly a third (30%) of parents worrying about information or images that they have found their child looking at on a website or on TV, just 41% of parents always supervise their children using the internet and 11% never do. Over half of parents (55%) leave it up to their children to decide which websites to visit, based on either guidelines they have set or common sense.

Taking the issue of parental control extremely seriously, all major broadband companies offer filtering facilities in their broadband packages, usually for free, enabling parents to have more control over the information and images viewed by their children. Yet over a third of parents (34%) have not set up any filters or blocks on their home internet: 22% believe that it’s too time consuming, and a further 21% simply haven’t got round to setting it up. A third of parents (32%) are unaware of the parental control features available with their service.

Jason Glynn, communications expert at uSwitch.com, says: “In an age where engaging content such as on-demand TV will only increase the amount of hours our children spend online, we urge parents to contact their internet providers to see what controls are available to them. Speed and price should take second place to safety – but with most broadband services including filtering software for free, there really is no excuse not to take action.

“We fully support the measures being laid out by companies to help families tackle this issue, such as TalkTalk’s plans to classify websites with U, PG, 14 and 18 certificates. Our research shows that 8 out of 10 parents would back such a system.”

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Google’s Street View Provides Predators With Detailed That Could Be Used For Planning Abductions

Child Shield USA joins nation-wide campaign to raise child Internet safety concerns about Google Map’s new “Street View” application. Stop Internet Predators works to educate parents and communities about the potential dangers associated with this technology.

Today, Child Shield USA is eager to announce it has joined a national campaign formed in an effort to educate parents about child safety implications of new online technologies. Stop Internet Predators, a project of Stop Child Predators, is a coalition focusing primarily on Google’s “Street View” technology and the potential dangers to children’s privacy and safety if misused.

“After viewing images of children on Street View, I decided it was time to do more to stand up for children’s safety,” said John Raskob, President of Child Shield USA. “New technologies like this one could allow for children and parents to be unknowingly in harm’s way.”

Child Shield USA‘s primary goal is to reduce the alarming numbers of lost, missing, abducted, and runaway children in America. Their guaranteed and proven child safety programs provide parents with an array of easy-to-follow educational materials that will empower their children with important knowledge that can help prevent a tragedy. Child Shield USA is happy to integrate new Internet safety materials into their educational kits for parents.

“We are very glad to add Child Shield USA to our growing list of partners,” said Stacie Rumenap, Executive Director of Stop Child Predators. “Child Shield USA has a reputation as ‘America’s Protector of Children’ and we are pleased they have joined the efforts of Stop Internet Predators.”

Child Shield USA supports the petition Stop Internet Predators has led and encourages all parents to call elected officials to exercise restriction options in order to protect our children’s privacy and safety.

For more information about the campaign and to sign the petition please visit: www.StopInternetPredators.org. For more information on Child Shield USA and their “FREE” $2,000 Child Saftey Program, contact your local affiliate, Geoffrey Scheid at 682-552-5341. www.chidlshieldusa.com/safetynet

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The Increasing Number Of Online Predators And The Explicit Content Available On The Internet Are The Main Reasons Amplusnet Has Developed A Parental Control Dedicated Website

Together with their first parental control software released, Amplusnet Company is pleased to announce you the launch of a new website, www.ApplicationBlocker.com. As its name says, the site is specially created for the parental control software previously released.

And because there are two special events celebrated, Amplusnet offers their evaluators the chance to purchase the parental control software with a 25% discount. Parents interested in protecting their children on the internet and to assure that they are using the computer for activities appropriate to their age should take the opportunity as the discount is available this month only (November 2008).

Beside the useful information it contains, the new site is easy to navigate and keeps parents up to date with the latest online dangers and provides solutions to avoid them. Planed for parents, the site not only provides information and description about parental control software but also has a section for statistics regarding child abuse and internet human trafficking. More than that, our team has made a special parental control guide to advice parents in facing Internet traps child might fall in.

The reason why our Company decided to dedicate a site for parental control tools and tips is because of the increasing number of online predators, explicit content available on the Internet and because of requests received from parents concerned about their children computer activity. So do you want to assure your child a safe online environment? Than take a look at http://www.applicationblocker.com and see how easy is to protect your child.

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