Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook Talking technology, computers, and the Internet… for the average computer user

I’ve mentioned Blue Coat’s K-9 software before. I am very impressed with it’s ability to filter and monitor Internet content. The program is free, and you sure do get a lot for a free program. The software is installed on all our computers, and it has blocked out quite a number of malicious sites that otherwise would have been shown.

If I have any complaint, it is the way the Internet activity is organized. The program will display every little image and media file independently of the website visited. This makes for a lot of drudgery, sorting over the urls. I dislike this feature very much. But K9 is a superb parental filter– it does the job.

You can check out the main website here. I highly recommend it. It is updated from time to time. Be sure to flush out the url history to keep the program from filling up your hard drive.