I need to find a family-friendly content filter for an old imac, please help!

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I need to find a family-friendly content filter for an old imac, please help!

Hi, I really really need to find some kind of parental controls/adult content filter software that will block adult websites on an iMac 1.3.9. I have tried google but the only results that come up are not compatible with such an old computer. (of course, all of the newer computers have parental controls built into the system so they don't even need the software anyway, very frustrating) If you have any ideas or know of a specific software I can look for, please, please tell me, I would be so grateful. Thank you!

iMac, iOS 1.x

Posted on Jun 8, 2011 9:27 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 9, 2011 8:46 AM in response to CountySheriff

all of the newer computers have parental controls

So do the older ones. Which OS are you using? Read the Help Menu and/or search Knowledge Base on "how to set up parental controls."

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Answer 2

Jun 9, 2011 9:17 PM in response to Baby-Boomer-USofA

My OS is 10.3.9. What you said is hopefully still applicable? I had no idea, I will try it, thank you so much!!!

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Answer 3

Allan Jones

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Jun 10, 2011 12:31 PM in response to CountySheriff

Can you do "About This Mac" from the Apple menu and tell us what processor is in your iMac? Software that runs on a G4 or G5 iMac may not run on a G3 iMac. That will help us make recommendations.

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Answer 4

Jun 16, 2011 2:09 PM in response to Allan Jones

It runs on a G4 apparently... we tried to set up parental controls butunfortunately what we have is Panther, and the most we can do with thatis put up a firewall and block certain applications on differentaccounts, which is not what we need. Does anyone have any other ideas?

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