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Safe Surfing –Protect your Family  (January 2005 issue of the Pentecostal Herald)
By Keith Braswell

“Nine out of 10 children aged between eight and 16 have viewed pornography on the Internet. In most cases, the sex sites were accessed unintentionally when a child, often in the process of doing homework, used a seemingly innocent sounding word to search for information or pictures.” (London School of Economics).

It is imperative if you are going to be on the internet to protect yourself from this peril. Every home should have a filter in place to protect against pornography and obscene content. Many internet users are unprotected from pornography, hackers, viruses, spam and other damaging content. Some may see the need for something to be done to protect them, but they do not know where to start.

There is an abundance of stand alone security products like anti-virus and pop-up software, firewalls, content filtering and anti-spam that can be purchased. However, the choices are confusing and expensive if you have to continually buy another program to solve another problem that has arisen. Many of the solutions that are available at your local computer store are hard to set up and install, some are quite slow—slowing down your normal internet times. The end solution is many times under-blocking or over-blocking.

Some may have come to the conclusion that something must be done, but they do not know what do about it. That is where we can help. We can now offer you a solution to help churches and their members use the internet more safely. It is called the Bsafe Online Security Suite.

Bsafe Online Security Suite includes:
• Filtering Software – protects your loved ones by using the latest client-server technology to block access to harmful web sites
• Tamper Proof Reporting Option – keeps a secure record of your family’s web activity. Reports are emailed each week and can also be viewed online
• Anti-Virus - protects your PC, files and email address book from high-risk viruses, worms and Trojan programs.
• Firewall and Intrusion Detection - places a protective barrier between Internet criminals and the personal information on your PC. It also comes with an integrated intrusion detection system to constantly watch your Internet connections for suspicious behavior.
• Pop-up (and Spyware) Killer – Blocks Adware and Spyware by using an integrated approach to kill unwanted windows that are generated through any means. Has control key override for when you are visiting a site that has a necessary popup.

Why not just leave it be and use your computer and work around the invading junk? Many people who have tried to do just that can testify that it simply does not work. The floods of junk mail, pop-ups and unwanted content that permeate your system soon takes the fun out of it and it becomes a drudgery to wade through the filth and to use your computer as it was intended. You owe it to yourself and to your family to install a solution that protects you from the evil that is lurking on the internet.