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Web Site Blocking & Filtering
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Firefly's Netintelligence lets
you decide what you want your family to view
when they are surfing the Internet. Through
the easy to use Central Control Panel, you
have the ability to determine which types of
web sites you do, and do not, want you family
to access.
You can use Netintelligence’s 6 default
categories - Adult, Drugs, Gambling, Gaming,
Hate, Threats - or you can create your own
Lists. These lists can contain web sites that
you want to block, want to allow access and
these can be applied on an individual user
basis. All changes you make to a personal list
take effect in less than a minute!
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Safe Internet
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If you only want certain members of your
family to have very restricted internet access
e.g. only allow them access web sites that you
have determined as safe and appropriate, you
can create a totally Safe Internet Zone for
them. You simply add the addresses (URLs) of
the web sites to that user’s Personal Safe
Internet list and that’s it! They can only
visit those sites until you determine
otherwise.
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Instant Messaging Recording & Monitoring
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Firefly's Netintelligence
provides detailed analysis of the time, date,
duration and with whom members of your family
have been chatting using Instant Messenger. As
well as providing a top level view, you can
also drill down and actually see on line
transcripts of the ‘conversations’ that took
place.
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Time Controls |
With
Firefly's Netintelligence's easy
to use Time Controls you can set limits on
when your family use both the computer and the
internet. This feature allows you to set
limits on their usage in half hour blocks -
perfect if you're worried that the kids are
spending too long playing the latest computer
game or if you use Pay as You Go Broadband!
You can even vary the usage for different days
of the week. So you may allow them longer
access at the weekend and shorter access
during the weekdays - ensuring that they
concentrate on their homework! And don't
forget that you can set these limits from any
pc using your on line Control Centre - so you
rest assured that the family are not abusing
your rules even whilst you are at work.
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Anti Virus
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Firefly's Netintelligence
includes full automatic protection from
viruses, trojans and worms. Through our unique
partnership with Kaspersky, one of the world’s
leading Anti Virus companies, Netintelligence
centrally manages and distributes the latest
anti virus updates to you whilst you are
connected to the Internet. No daily updates
for you to collect, no daily download to
install, you do absolutely nothing!
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Email Protection
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Email is the most typical source of virus
infection.
Firefly's
Netintelligence checks and cures both your
incoming and outgoing mail in real-time. It
even scans and cleans your mail boxes. Your
email is always safe!
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Computer Usage
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A broadband connection is ‘always on’ but just
how much time does your family spend using the
computer?
Firefly's
Netintelligence provides you with a detailed
view of the length of time each user spends on
the computer and, perhaps more importantly,
when they were using it. Information is
provided in minutes, hours and days.
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Application/Software Usage
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Firefly's Netintelligence
provides you with a breakdown of the top
applications and software used by members of
your family whilst using the computer. This
feature also provides you with a handy insight
into the software programs that are actually
used and/or installed on your computer.
Perfect for determining what type of games are
being played!
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Default
Blocking Categories
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Firefly's Netintelligence has
made web blocking simple. To date, the
Netintelligence Assessment Team have
categorised over 30 million inappropriate web
sites, files and images, in our central
Netintelligence databases, into 6 main
‘threat’ categories. Using a combination of
techniques and sources, the team is constantly
updating the databases - 24 hours per day, 7
days per week - ensuring you that have the
best protection possible.
The following definitions cover most, but not
all, of the sub-categories which make up our
six “blocked” categories. Web sites which
clearly can not be “trusted” in nature, and
which do not fit neatly into any of the sub
categories are automatically placed in the
“Threats” category by default.
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Pornographic sites
Sites featuring nudity and/or sexuality;
“adult” underwear and role-playing apparel;
games, humour and literature sites with
overtly adult content;
personals/dating/romance; art featuring nudity
or explicit sexuality; sex education.
Drugs
Sites
Concerned with supply, promotion and/or
advocacy of illegal drugs; including
drug-related paraphernalia, literature, and
equipment; associated alternative lifestyles.
Gambling
Bookmakers and casinos (online and offline)
Gambling machines (fruit machines,
roulette, etc.); gambling resource and
information sites
Gaming
Online gaming groups; gaming resources;
interactive puzzles; role-playing games; video
games; coin-operated games
Hate
Violence
Violence. aggression; racism; weapons (supply
and advocacy/information); terrorism;
political, racial or religious intolerance,
bigotry or hate; incitement to law-breaking,
including civil disobedience; suicide
assistance/advocacy sites.
Threats
Sites
Sites concerning hacking, phreaking, phishing,
virus creation, password cracking, illegal
software, warez, proxies and redirectors,
fraud, credit card number generation, dialers,
and other identifiable threats.
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Multiple
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Firefly's Netintelligence Home
Edition is perfect for households with more
than one computer. You can load the software
on up to 3 separate computers and manage them
centrally through the online Control Centre.
You simply install the software on up to 3
machines; input your unique license key number
and Netintelligence automatically does the
rest for. The next time you log in to the
Control Centre, you will see a new machine has
been added and all users on that machine set
up. Netintelligence will protect up to 6
unique users per computer.
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On Line
Control Centre
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At the heart of
Firefly's
Netintelligence lies the online Control
Centre. Change your settings, set your
policies, and view all of your reports from
any PC at any time, using the online
Netintelligence Control Centre. You will get
an instant snapshot of all activities carried
out on the machine, identify any areas of
immediate concern, and drill down from a week
to a day, from a total view to an individual
level - all with a simple click of the mouse.
And as the information is refreshed every
minute - you have as near to ‘real time view’
as is possible. All information is always
available for the last 30 days, so if you have
not visited your Control Centre for a while,
you will not have missed any important detail.
Firefly's Netintelligence really
does provide you with the information that you
need to ensure that your family are safe and
secure 24 hours per day 7 days per week. For
example, you could be out of the country on
business, and you might want to update the web
sites that your children will be able to
safely visit when they get home from school -
later that same afternoon. Such is the power
of Netintelligence.
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How does it work?
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Firefly's Netintelligence Home
Edition is considered an End Point software
solution, which simply means a piece of
software that physically resides at the end of
a network - in this case, on your home
computer at the end of a broadband network.
Because the software is actually installed on
your computer, it is ideally placed to
constantly monitor all of the interaction
between a user with the computers processes &
applications.
In effect, Netintelligence acts as a
'guardian' on your computer. It is designed to
monitor, take action and then report. For
example, when you set web site blocking rules
for your children, you are simply telling the
guardian to note their activity, and if it
sees them visiting a web site that you do not
want them to - take action and prevent them
doing so.
Some of the rules that the 'guardian' will
follow, are predetermined by Netintelligence -
anti virus, or harmful websites for example -
but most of them are set by you, via the
online Control Centre. In order to determine
whether these rules have changed or have been
updated, the Netintelligence software
constantly communicates to our Central
Databases. The software is programmed to
‘talk’ to the databases at least once every
minute. As well as receiving its new
instructions, the 'guardian' will also deposit
the information it has gathered from your
computer in this time with the databases. This
information is then processed and made
available for you in the form of online
reports, via the online Control Centre.
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