X-Stop Blocking

Blocking by X-Stop
Direct Address Blocking (DAB) from X-Stop, the product using high technology as a solution, blocks with a keyboard trap, almost instantaneously.

Here's what DAB has to do:

  1. User requests a URL through a browser
  2. Before the computer even gets the keystrokes, the URL is translated (if necessary) and compared to the URL list. Because this is done with numbers instead of letters (there are only 10 digits! There are 255 characters...) the response is nearly instantaneous. If the site is on the blocked list, the screen is covered, and the violation message is displayed.

A site not on the list IS NEVER BLOCKED!

What about our list? Our proprietary automated MudCrawler searches out pornography and other types of sites on the Internet using 44 criteria that we have found to reveal almost all such sites. Those sites not fitting perfectly are viewed by our "MudCrawler" technicians for a final decision. Only by automation can the entire Internet be scanned for URL list block. And only X-Stop has the technologyto do it.

Word Filtering (Used by many popular filtering programs on the web)

Word filters slow the computer, block a new "surprise site" every day

Here's what a word filter must do:

  1. User requests a URL through a browser
  2. DELAY while remote URL is accessed by system. You'll see "Looking up host" then "Host www.anysite.com contacted, waiting for reply," then the "wait" icon while the site loads into the browser's computer.
  3. DELAY while each and every word from remote Web page is compared against each and every word in the filter list. It's true that computers can do this type of thing quickly, but there's a wait.
  4. If a prohibited word is found, the site is blocked.

The problem is...the blocked site may be a GOOD site! Typical good sites blocked by word filters include chicken recipe sites, blocked for the word "BREAST," The White House Web site, blocked for the word "COUPLE," and a county government site blocked for the word "MiddleSEX" County! There are thousands more great sites that are "accidentally" blocked by the word filters.

The word filter will frequently allow a picture from a XXX site to appear in the browser before triggering a block! Many porn sites will purposely make all the "words" in the opening page into GRAPHICS in order to defeat the word filters. It works! And, of course, once a picture is on the computer screen it can be saved, printed, e-mailed, or posted to a newsgroup.

Bottom Line

X-Stop gives you the degree of accuracy and protection you're looking for!