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How to protect your PC and family on the internet

gipjon
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

Keep your family safe by changing your DNS setting, This will block websites depending on which DNS you select. No filtering is 100% but it can help to protect your family and pc

 

Google’s DNS servers do not have any blocking or filtering built-in and is one of the fastest DNS servers on the internet

Change your router or laptop DNS to:

8.8.8.8

8.8.4.4

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Quad9 is probably the fastest DNS server on the internet 

 

Change your router or laptop DNS to:

9.9.9.10                     no blocking or filtering built-in 

149.112.112.110      no blocking or filtering built-in 

 

Malwere Blocking DNSSEC Validation filters

Change your router or laptop DNS to:

9.9.9.9 

149.112.112.112

 

Secured w/ECS: Malware blocking, DNSSEC Validation, ECS enabled filters

Change your router or laptop DNS to:

9.9.9.11

149.112.112.11

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Cloudflare is one of the fastest DNS servers on the internet 

 

Change your router or laptop DNS to:

1.1.1.1 no blocking or filtering built-in 

 

Malware filters 

Change your router or laptop DNS to:

1.1.1.2 

1.0.0.2

 

Malware and adults filters

Change your router or laptop DNS to:

1.1.1.3

1.0.0.3

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Norton DNS A filters malware, phishing and scam sites

Change your router or laptop DNS to:

199.85.126.10

199.85.127.10

 

Norton DNS B filters malware, phishing, scam and pornographic sites

Change your router or laptop DNS to:

199.85.126.20

199.85.127.20

 

Norton DNS C filters malware, phishing, scam, pornographic, mature content, gambling, alcohol, and crime sites

Change your router or laptop DNS to:

199.85.126.30

199.85.127.30

 

There are loads of websites that will show you how to change the DNS. Just google how to change DNS in my router or Laptop with windows 10, windows 11 etc 

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If you are using standard Vodafone DNS and want to keep using it check this out 

https://support.vodafone.co.uk/Account/Controls-and-limits/1464010302/How-do-I-change-my-age-restric...

 

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MillerJones
4: Newbie

Another thing to try which blocks out a lot is use host files from this site.

 

https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

 

It might be a good idea how to use hosts files and the limitations of using them on individual devices.  They're far more effective if you can actually get the router to use them and automatically update them.

Cynric
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

Also Quad9 https://www.quad9.net/ provide various DNS types.

Ripshod
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

I agree, quad9 are top of my list now and I use them for DoT. 

Jayach
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

@Ripshod What's DoT?

Ripshod
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

Sorry, DNS over TLS

Cynric
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

For the non-Windows folks in the world of *nix

 

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Linux_and_Unix_DNS_Configuration