How do I deal with Spam, viruses and parental controls?
Spam, parental controls & Viruses (1) Our service does not do anything specific regarding parental controls. We recommend that you look at software such as McAfee Parental Controls and there are several others which allow you to restrict the access as you see appropriate. (2) The way we set the routers provides some built-in protection against worms and hack attacks. Each computer is connected to the router using a technique called DHCP, which basically means each computer gets its own private IP address assigned by the router. The private IP address is not communicated by the router to the outside world–only the router’s static IP address is communicated. So any worm or hacker can only get to the router, they typically can’t get through it to the computer. Of course this doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to get through–but usually a worm/hacker will go on to easier prey. It also doesn’t mean that you can’t get a worm or virus from downloading files or emails. We of course recommend
