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Nick Veitch - 21 November 2008 - 6:05pm

Usually people have problems trying to get to particular content on the web, but there are plenty of reasons why you might want to block particular websites too - especially if your kids are using your computer. There are plenty of commercial services for this, but if you are willing to put in a bit of effort, you can enjoy the peace of mind of blocking annoying or unwanted content for free.

SafeSquid is a proxy server that processes your browser's request for websites, checks them against its internal rules and forwards the content on if it is safe. You can of course set the rules however you like. Unlike a lot of free software, this is actually easy to use - but if you have any problems, don't worry we will be covering it in a full PC Answers tutorial soon.

In the meantime, check out the website here:http://www.safesquid.com/html/

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