Friday, December 3, 2010

Safe surfing part duex

Today I woke up and remembered a good friend and great teacher tell me that I needed to add more to my safe surfing by telling everyone about open DNS. I would never turn down a wise mans advice, so here is how safe surfing can be even safer.
OpenDNS is a DNS (Domain Name System) resolution service. OpenDNS offers advanced features, such as misspelling correction, phishing(pronounced fishing) protection, and optional content filtering. In short it keeps you from even having the chance to click on something that could possible harm your computer (if you chose, there are many choices to be offered). Now this is an alternative to using your current ISP's (internet service provider I.E. aol, comcast)DNS server. They get paid to allow ad's in and even if they're the type of ad's that can cause your life to be a constant cycle of paying someone to remove viruses. Because Open Dns has multiple places they have servers at you won't notice it but the internet will be a smidgen faster, but the speed itself depends on what it is you're looking for, and how many people are on at the same time not only in your house but also online around your area. But since your ISP has a god awful amount of people on it while you're on the change itself it nicer.
As far as features go this is the thing to have it has the auto correction for spelling so no being directed to garbage sites which lead to more garbage sites(terrible that is how you get a virus) and so on. It's more of less thinking more getting there and doing what you need thing which is always wonderful. Also you get the anti Phishing another wonderful preventive to virus collection, on top of which if you do get an ad that has the phishing you can report it to them and they will have it thrown in to what they call a phishtank( Ha Ha I got it Fish tank "Badam Ching"). And they offer the greatest options for parents and corporate companies by setting up a block filter by categories (there are some software companies that offer to do the same but as my theory goes why pay when it can be free). As well as the opportunity to block site by suggestion to Open DNS, which is beautiful because the more people have that the safer we all are(Rock on). If you really don't want to suggest anything you can actually pick from one of their finely tunes lists of things you want block by category there's a good amount of them you just pick what you want and off you go!
There are some options to pay for extras but just rock the free one and you should be good to go!
Now that that has been said heres the website ---> OpenDNS
I will also be listing it on my side bar per the norm just for future reference!

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