Use your chance to get SafeDNS for free for a year to safeguard your kids and yourself from everything you dislike about the web – gross stuff, malware, phishing, annoying ads, time wasters. With SafeDNS find everything you need to better protect all your family members from unwanted sites and cyber threats. You decide what devices SafeDNS will be on – your home Wi-Fi router or individual devices to stop worrying where your children surf to and how much time they spend online.
Confident enough to play around with router settings? Teach your OpenWRT-based router new tricks like applying an individual filtering policy for every device on your network, even for devices behind NAT.
With the award-winning SafeDNS web filtering service you can block any inappropriate and dangerous content online before it becomes accessible to your family members. For each of them you can create an individual set of filtering rules. Protect your children against porn and adult content, online gaming and social media sites. Make sure kids do not spend your money buying stuff in app stores. Filter out most internet ads, malicious and phishing sites for all of your dear and near ones.
With the filtering service your family members will only get access to sites from the content categories allowed by you. To adjust the filtering service to your needs just choose what groups of online resources to block or allow among the 57 categories containing over 90M sites. If a site from a blocked category is requested from a SafeDNS protected device a block page will appear instead of the unwanted content.
To start using SafeDNS take 3 steps:
- register on the company’s site
- define your own filtering rules in your personal service dashboard
- set the service on chosen devices by changing their network settings.
To make installing SafeDNS on Windows-based computers very easy the company provides an agent program. Download and launch it on a computer to automatically install SafeDNS on your device. Agent is indispensable for users with dynamic IPs or those behind NAT. There’s a link in the dashboard to download SafeDNS Agent.
To configure SafeDNS on devices with other OSes check detailed instructions the company provides on its site.
Use SafeDNS to:
- Make the internet cleaner and safer for your extended family by protecting up to 3 home networks per single account.
- Get the filtering service where you need it by protecting any number of family’s individual devices or the entire home network.
- Filter any web-connected device, its OS and IP notwithstanding.
- Protect Windows-based computers outside secured networks with SafeDNS Agent.
- Protect computers with dynamic IPs or those behind NAT with Agent.
- Manage the filtering service 24/7 from anywhere on the internet via your personal online dashboard.
- Block servers controlling botnets, get alerts of requests from protected devices to such servers.
- Prevent bypassing SafeDNS by blocking proxies and anonymizers.
- Load web pages faster and safeguard kids from inappropriate advertising images by blocking most online ads of any kind – context, banner, audio, and video ads.
- Improve online security for your entire family by blocking phishing and malware.
- Create your own block page making it personal and child-friendly
- Filter the internet differently for adults, little kids and teenagers by creating up to 3 filtering policies with different filtering rules.
- Fine tune the filtering to your individual needs by blocking or allowing any of the 57 content categories.
- Apply different filtering settings for each family member even on the same computer (with Agent) during predetermined time periods.
- Introduce exceptions to any set of filtering rules with separate white and black lists per each filtering policy.
- Limit web use to whitelisted sites only by enabling a whitelist-only mode.
- Limit time kids spend online by creating an advanced filtering schedule for each day of the week.
- Enable a concealed block page mode.
- Make sure children do not find anything inappropriate searching for information on the web by enabling SafeSearch for Google and Bing.
- Make sure kids see less gross stuff on YouTube by enabling Restricted Mode for this video hosting site.
- Get 1 year worth detailed reports and stats per filtering policy on sites visited from SafeDNS protected devices.
The top quality of the SafeDNS web filtering service is acknowledged by world leading test labs and experts. For 2 years straight the service is named Approved Parental Control Product by AV-Comparatives. Last year SafeDNS became Editor’s Choice for Content Management & Filtering Solutions in 2016 Cyber Defense Magazine Infosec Awards. This January PC Magazine included SafeDNS into a list of the best parental control software for 2017.
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Reviews for SafeDNS
Every internet user, no matter what internet environment they are in, has to face the risk of their data and personal information being stolen by malicious websites and advertisments.
SafeDNS is a reliable and powerful software solution designed to protect you from malware infections from dangerous websites, by blocking access to them. It detects and filters suspicious content, malicious websites, and advertisements preventing them from entering and damaging your system.
Overview
The download size for Windows installer is ~8MB and the installation process is simple and straightforward. After the download all you need to do is create a new account or login with your existing one, and SafeDNS starts protecting your internet privacy right away. The Windows agent of SafeDNS launches the SafeDNS services automatically on devices and protects computers on and off secure networks. It has the ability of filtering the internet differently for different users on the same computer. Filtering services can be changed by the users according to their needs. SafeDNS is a perfect solution for users at home and also for businesses, where there is a risk of personal and business information being stolen. SafeDNS can also be used to provide a safer environment for children who use internet as they are prone to inappropriate websites way more than other users. For businesses, one use of SafeDNS can be to block employees from accessing inappropriate websites so that they can focus more on their work.
Pros
Simple & Intuitive UI
After you login with your account, this tool automatically starts protecting you without being annoying or disturbing at all. The main window has a modern look an is as simple as it can be. It only has a button to turn the protection ON/OFF and in the middle it tells you whether you are protected by SafeDNS or not. You can access the settings from the icon on the left-side and configure them to suite your needs.
Set up multiple profiles to suite your needs
When ran for the first time it protects you using the default profile and configuration. However, you can set up different profiles for different users on the same computer and switch between them quickly and easily. You can modify and change the ‘Content Filtering Settings’, which lets you decide what type of sites to allow and what type of sites to block. The websites are categorized in a various different categories like ‘Illegal Activity’, ‘Adult Related’, ‘Bandwidth Hogs’, ‘Time Wasters’ or ‘General Sites’. You can also block/unblock specific URLs by adding them to the Black list or White list as needed. Changing the settings of SafeDNS requires you to enter the password so no one can access and change settings.
Works as a Parental Control Service
SafeDNS works well as a ‘Parental Control Application’, it can protect your children against against porn, browser games, online time wasters as well as other dangerous and unwanted web content.
Protection for all devices
SafeDNS works on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, this makes it a total security solution for all the devices you and your family members own. DNS can be set up on any router, and detailed instructions are available by the developer on their site. Setting up SafeDNS on the router means that all your devices connected to the router will be affected by the configuration you choose. This ensure total protection for all the devices that are connected to your network.
Customizable Blockpage
It let’s you control the page that is shown when the user tries to access a blocked website or web content. You can add your own image and text to show up there. This is useful for business as they can add their company logo and text of their choice on the block page.
Cons
Visited pages might still be available
The pages you visit with SafeDNS off, would remain available as long as they are in the cache. This is because if the page is available in the cache the browser does not have to request DNS look up. You have to make sure to clear the browser cache, especially if children use the same Windows profile as you.
Conclusion
SafeDNS provides an efficient and reliable solution to help you block access to malicious internet content when your PC is used to browse internet. It is a useful tool with handy use in all sectors, whether its businesses, home or any other internet environment. It offers great configuration options and put you in complete control of the internet content filtering.
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