How we are safer

The Brightfilter Parental Control solution uses a commercially available database already employed by thousands of educational establishments worldwide. Over 10,000 schools in the UK alone use this database. Because we host the database ourselves, you can be sure that your computer will ALWAYS be using the most up-to-date version.

Other parental control solutions rely on limited database updates which are sent each day/week/month. With over 30,000 new websites appearing each day* and over 266 new pornography sites per day**, families HAVE to protect themselves with the most accurate solution - and Brightfilter is the answer.

The Brightfilter software does not leave casual web browsing to chance. All default profiles will protect your computer from websites which harbour malicious and illegal content:

Categories blocked by default in:      

Extreme
URLs providing content considered gory, perverse, or horrific in nature. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) data is included in this category and is filtered by default and cannot be bypassed or strayed onto in error.

Malicious Sites
URLs that deploy code designed specifically to hijack your computer's settings or activity. Some examples include self-installing applications (called "drive-by" executable file downloads), Trojans, and viruses that exploit security vulnerabilities in browsers or other applications. It is possible for a Web site to lose its malicious status and be re-categorized. This category is differentiated from the Spyware/Adware category by its intent. Spyware/Adware is intended to covertly gather and send information to another party; malicious sites intend to take action on another computer to cause damage.

Phishing
Links to URLs that typically arrive in hoax e-mails established to steal user account information. These sites falsely represent themselves and appear as legitimate company URLs in order to deceive and obtain user account information that can be used to perpetrate fraud or theft.

Spam URLs
Links to URLs that arrive in unsolicited spam e-mails. Spam URL content ranges from product marketing to potentially offensive or fraudulent sites. Also included are sites built only for spamming purposes such as spam blogs or comment spam. Links to URLs that typically arrive in hoax e-mails established to steal user account information are not included.

Spyware / Adware
URLs that download or execute software intended to gather user information and send it to a third party without the user's explicit knowledge or consent. Web sites that download Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) are included. This category is differentiated from the Malicious Sites category by its intent. Spyware/Adware is intended to covertly gather and send information to another party. The intent of a malicious site is to install or take an action without user approval or knowledge.

* Source informationweek.com July 2007
** Source techcrunch.com

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