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Renjith On July - 11 - 2010

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Family Shield is another free content filtering feature from OpenDNS. It is just like the OpenDNS basic plan but with minimal dashboard features which suits very well for home use. Family Shield provides safe and filtered browsing for your kids and family instantly.

The highlighted features of Family Shield are:

1. Blocking Adult websites.
2. Blocking proxy or anonymizer websites which commonly used by savvy kids.
3. Blocking phishing websites.
4. Blocking Malware websites.
5. When you setup the service on your home router every home device which uses the internet is protected from any web attack.
6. OpenDNS’s 24/7 updated service blocks any new adult websites.
7. With OpenDNS security it provides a faster internet experience.

Let’s begin the setup:
1. Click here to start the setup.
2. Select Router to begin configuration.
3. Choose the brand of your router and complete the configuration with the easy steps provided.
4. Finally you can test your configuration using the link provided.
5. That’s it! Your network is now protected.

If you would like to get more advanced protection such as unlocking sites of your choice, customized network traffic reports, easier configuration via a dashboard you can try OpenDNS basic. Here is more information about the Basic plan.

Configure either Router or Computer

Select from the model of your Router

If you select Computer? Select the OS you wish to configure?

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