Parental Control Your PC and Mobile To Safeguard From Vulnerable Web Contents and Get Protected From Malware

Now a days, the malware activities are increasing exponentially. In 2011, more than 600 million incidents of malware infections are recorded.
The sources of malware are as follows:

SEO Poisoning: 45%

Spam/Phishing email: 25%

Social Network attack: 20%

Malware embedded within Adult Movies: 10%

SEO poisoning, which is most prevailing source, where the malware writers are using the search engines as the medium to spread their infectious codes. And at recent times, as the social network is increasing its popularity, therefore the malware writers can not ignore this source to spread their infectious codes and thus becoming the third most preferred medium to spread the infection.
The most popular contents within Social Network are as follows:

Games: 48%

Society/Daily Living: 31%

Personal Pages/Blogs: 10%

Pornography: 6%

Entertainment: 5%

This statistical report is taken from e Scan Malware Report generated in February, 2012.
However, there are others sources too, such as Peer-to-Peer or P2P services, which is growing its popularity, is a major source of Malware contamination. But the main source is malware infection which originates via Internet Browser. Thus to safeguard your PC from all such threats an antimalware software needs to be installed into your system which provides real time dynamic protection.
Blue Coat K9 Web Protection is one such free security software, which provides a comprehensive protection against malwares and also works as a parental guidance or web filtering software to stop access of vulnerable web contents. This kind of software are mostly used in offices, schools or colleges and also at home, to stop children at schools or colleges and  home and also employees at offices, from unauthorized access of vulnerable web contents and unknowingly spread viruses and malwares into the PC or internal networks.
Blue Coat K9 Web Protection is a free application which runs on Windows and Mac PCs. Recently the application has also been developed for IPhone, IPod Touch and IPad, you need to search “K9” in ITunes or device’s Apps Store for download and installation. The mobile version has been developed to protect your mobile from malware attack and also if your child have an IPhone or IPod Touch or IPad, then you can easily password protect the vulnerable contents such as pornographic, gambling contents from unauthorized access.

The interface is too simple after first time installation, you need to setup a security password, then entering into the setup, you can check the category or bundle type which you want to block. You can also set time slot, within which web security works and set exceptions. You can set keyword blocking in case of web search and redirect search result to K9 Safe Search for safer search result.
Thus overall, Blue Coat K9 Web Protection is a useful free web security and parental control tool, which gives protection from most of the malware sources.
You can download K9 Web Protection from here.

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