No one knows how many new web sites are pornographic, but we know it is many each day. Most pornographic websites are free or offer free preview pictures. They are easily accessible – and many are disguised as children's sites. Moreover, even if a site is not intended to be pornographic, "computer hackers" can add pornography to any site – as they recently did to The New York Times' website. Changes like that cannot be caught and safeguarded by other, current filtering or blocking systems. These systems depend on identifying the site in advance. The Internet is an incomparable educational tool.

• Ultra Blocking: This setting may "overblock" or "overfilter" - but it is virtually 100% effective in filtering pornography.
• Standard Blocking: This setting permits a higher degree of skin tones to be unfiltered resulting in nude artwork and other scenes (such as beaches) being shown.
• The BAIR^SM Filtering System is a totally flexible software system giving you the option to block pornographic or objectionable material to meet your value-system and responsibility.
• The system permits the parent or administrator to choose, rather than leaving that very critical choice to some unknown stranger.
• The BAIR^SM Filtering System can be set to filter Sexually Explicit Graphics and Text (Pornography) as well as profanity. The parent or administrator makes the choice to block -- and at what level.

The complicated and sophisticated software that runs The BAIR^SM Filtering System is housed in a secure facility. It constantly undergoes testing, updating and upgrading.

Since it literally "thinks," The BAIR^SM is always there to protect you and your children, regardless of how many undesirable websites are created each day. And, it works from any Internet hook-up.

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