Ya know Hazylunarrain...when you think back on how most of us were when we were kids...we all did the same thing. We may not have had porn at our fingertips with a PC, but we all found a way. And I think most of us came out of it alright. He could be getting into worse things than porn. Just think of it as a right of passage. Just make sure your there when he falls down so you can pick him back up and dust him off...and he'll turn out just fine

I am quite an open minded person about everything, including erotic pictures (porn is different from erotica). But webgizmos, what WE found a way to get out hands on was (1)quite difficult to get in the first place and (2)nothing like the trash you can see on the Net today involving human wastes, animals, children and violence where there is nothing erotic about.
Yes, I understand his concern, and would my own boys be a little older I would indeed be very concerned as well. I would totally freak out if I saw my son watching some of the picture not too hard to find "out there".
Of course, as a parent, you should talk to your kids, but some things we prefer not to mention. Heck I had no idea about "certain sexual activities" before I was in my early adulthood. Who wants to talk about sexual behaviors involving human wastes with their 10 year old?

I hear ya Paxx...the stuff on the net these days really shows the dregs of society, and most of it shocked the hell out of me. And really the bottomline is, the only way to shield your kids from it is to not have a pc. If I caught my daughter looking at this stuff I would totally freak out (to put it lightly) as well.

Lol. Just wait guys... Wait till their 14 lmao. Naaa, It's not really that bad with him so far. Just "innocent" nudie pics. Nothing you know, far fetched . At any rate, I have since discussed everything with him, and I hope he REALLY understands how I feel about these things and knows that he can come to me with ANY questions ANY time. But yeah, It is still nerve wracking being forced to realized he's not my "baby" anymore (as if,lol)

Well, I guess after all this discussion you'll first try to decide if you want to block sites or not.

If yes, I'd go for the easiest way. Edit your hosts file on your PC. On my win2k box its path is:
C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
This is a plain ascii file, edit it with your notepad, and add entries like this:

127.0.0.1 www.google.com
127.0.0.1 images.google.com
127.0.0.1 www.yahoo.com

and so on, with whatever sites you fancy to block. This will preceed the DNS lookup, and the browser will fail to find these addresses on your local machine. (I usually block the aggressive ad sites, or used to before swithing from IE to Mozilla Firefox, but that's another story.)

If your kids will find out how to circumvent this, they deserve those boobs.

Disclaimer: this is a trick hint, not my view about the original problem.

Well, if your a parent its a different concern, you gotta have a big chat. So then they dont go on it. Well at my school theres this filter called Bess. So yeah.

There is a list of files by that name/type in my system32 folder. I don't think it's really a problem after the discussion I had with him. At least if he still is looking at anything it's nothing more harmful than the occasional frontal shot. He's mostly a good kid so I don't foresee any problems. But I will keep these useful tips in mind if it does get outta hand tho.

yep, keep this in mind when your internet bank account suddenly decreases, and the kid arrives home driving a fancy corvette convertible

Actually in the /etc folder (per definition) there's only one file called "hosts", having no file-extensions.

yep, keep this in mind when your internet bank account suddenly decreases, and the kid arrives home driving a fancy corvette convertible

Is that where the 4-wheeler came from!! I knew something fishy was goin on lol. I have windows XP btw. I'll do a search later, but I don't remember coming across anthing like that. I'll etcha know tho