Net Nanny 5.1.2

Net Nanny is a well-known name in the world of web-filtering software, but this does not make it the best. The problem is that it doesn’t use categories to block sites. Instead, a single long list of blocked URLs is maintained, making it difficult to apply different profiles to different users. On the positive side, Net Nanny offers a monitoring facility with the option to email reports to the ‘administrator’ at regular intervals, as well as word filtering for emails and newsgroups, but not for instant-messaging programs.

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