We at Datasync Internet are proud to offer the premier Internet filtering service to our subscribers. We have selected X-Stop Internet filtering service, by 8e6 Technologies, for our subscribers to guarantee that you get the most effective, easy-to-use Internet filtering solution available. X-Stop is now currently serving millions of people in thousands of organizations across North America.

X-Stop filters access to inappropriate materials on the Internet for families, schools, libraries, and businesses. This includes Web sites containing pornography, bomb-making, hate crime, violence and any other objectionable material available on the Internet today.

• What is Internet filtering?
• What type of filtering do we offer?
• How does X-Stop help families?
• How does X-Stop help schools and libraries?
• How does X-Stop help businesses?
• What is the best way to use this filter?
• How do I sign up for X-Stop?

What is Internet filtering?

The Internet has a proliferation of Web sites that promote in graphic detail subjects that most feel are inappropriate for the home, educational and corporate environments. These subjects include pornography, drug use, criminal activity, violence, and hate-oriented material. Open chat areas are also a frequent source of inappropriate and even dangerous discussion that can threaten the safety of children and be unproductive for employees. Internet filtering is a way of blocking access to these types of Web sites.

What type of filtering do we offer?

One approach is client-based software products which, when loaded onto an individual computer, will check specific Web site requests against a database of Web sites deemed inappropriate and disallow the retrieval of the content. There are several drawbacks to client-based products. First, the users must load software onto the individual computer. It is immediately out of date because new objectionable sites appear on the Internet daily. Updates are usually available, but continually updating is troublesome to the user. They are often easy to bypass because they are loaded on the same computer they're protecting.

The approach we chose to use is server-based filtering which resides at the network level, so that each computer does not have to have software loaded. In our case, we have the filtering server hosted at our network and then we pass our subscriber's traffic through it. This is the most practical approach. Subscribers automatically receive the most up to date list of blocked sites. We at Datasync Internet feel that X-Stop is the safest, most effective solution for our customers.

How does X-Stop help families?

Perhaps in your household, the kids just jump on the Internet without saying anything. If you're like most parents, this makes you a little uneasy because objectionable material on the Internet is so prolific now it is difficult to avoid. Kids are curious-and they're going to find their way to sites you would rather they avoid.

X-Stop can give you the peace of mind you want as the parent of a Web-surfing youngster. X-Stop blocks sites that promote pornography, drug use, violence, and hate crimes. It also blocks open chat areas, where objectionable and even dangerous discussions can take place.

As a parent, you can allow your child to freely explore the Internet without worrying about the safety of their experience. That's how it should be.

How does X-Stop help schools and libraries?

X-Stop was designed specifically for the K-12 environment. With X-Stop, there is no software package for you to load, no hardware to purchase, no troubleshooting, no downloading or constant updating for you to do. We do all this for you. X-Stop is a turnkey Internet filtering service that's on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Libraries can activate X-Stop on selected computers in their childrens' section without affecting Internet use in other areas of the library.

Since we review thousands of sites every day, your database of filtered sites is automatically up to date all the time. This frees technology coordinators from the enormous task of creating local files of blocked sites or downloading incomplete lists from various sources. X-Stop does it all for you.

How does X-Stop help businesses?

Internet filtering also has its place in businesses. Employers have found that as office workers have access to the Internet, productivity decreases because the temptation to spend time visiting non-productive Web sites on company time is to great to resist. Many employers now have Acceptable Use Policies (AUP) for the Internet written into their employee manuals, but this does not mean they get a high degree of compliance. As a result, companies are now starting to use Internet filtering methods, such as X-Stop, to block inappropriate sites, which encourages employees to stick to their job while on company time.

With X-Stop Internet filtering service, compliance is automatic. You can decide how employees will use the Internet when they're on your time--without having to police the issue. Best of all, you don't have any hardware to buy, or software to install, or updates to worry about. We do everything for you at the server level, and we update the list of filtered sites automatically every day.

What is the best way to use this filter?

There are a couple of ways you can use this filter. Either you can filter the primary existing account, or setup a secondary account so that account can get e-mail and have it's own filtered access, while the primary account stays unfiltered with total access.

How do I sign up for X-Stop?

Subscriptions for the X-Stop filter service will be $6.00/month per account with a one time $5.00 setup charge.

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