To use Netfilter it is necessary to use the following browsers: Internet Explorer 4.0 or above and Netscape 4.5 or above. You may try to use other browsers, pointing the configurations HTTP and HTTPS proxy of the browser to 127.0.0.1, port 8001. For more information, take a lok at your browser's documentation.

The minimum requirements are: Pentium processor 486, 16MB of RAM and 5MB of free disk space.

Yes. The network administrator may access the Administration Kit with the password to configure Netfilter. The access to the configuration of Netfilter Client Software is also made through a password, created in the moment of installation.

Please contact our technical support to know how to recover your password. If a user forgets his password, yopu should only activate a new password for him at the Administration Kit.

No, any version of Netfilter School (individual or network) doesn't affect your email.

In the default configuration, there's no interference with the email. However, the user may block sending and receiving emails changing the configurations clicking with the right button in the Netfilter icon at the taskbar.

No. Netfilter softwares don't interferte in the speed of navigation.

Netfilter has no interferences in downloads.

The efficiency is commonly very high, but there are sites which still haven't been included in our lists. In a few cases, the system may wrongly block sites with safe contents. In these cases we display a "feedback" form where the subscriber can tell us the URL which wasn't correctly filtered.

It's quite impossible. It's very hard to disable the system without the password. Netfilter has already been tested by many especialists, who couldn't mock his security.

Yes, it is possible if he has the password created during the installation process of the programm.

He will lose the access to Intenet and it will be necessary to make an intallation repair from the installation software.

Netfilter blocks only these three kinds of contents. Actually here's no forecast to include other categories in Netfilter Provider.

Yes, it is possible to add URL's in a custom block list. However, changes and removals of URL's blocked by Netfilter are not possible.

To assure that there won't be interferences in your provider network, and also to guarantee our system performance we offer your provider a Netfilter server.

It would make your system mockable. The user would only have to connect to another provider to access internet without the filter.

To distribute our software in CD-ROM contact us and ask for originals Netfilter cd's. It is not allowed to record Netfilter in cd's which are not original, except when we authorize it.

Yes, our logo may be used when associated to the software download or to the release of the service in a provider. To use our logo in other condition, please contact Netfilter.

Netfilter server has no interference in your network. The system doesn't capture information of your clients network. All the update interactions are made from a query started from local Netfilter server, installed at the provider network.

The update is made weekly in times of low band usage.

It's made automatically during the periodical update. The client doesn't need to worry. All the update interactions update in the databases are made through queries started from local Netfilter server, installed at the provider network.

No, all the information will be exchanged between software client and Netfilter local server using only the IP access of the client to your site. The databases updates of local Netfilter server by central Netfilter server are made in times of low band usage and send only changes of the database - it never sends the whole file.

Yes. If there's a mistake in the list of blocked sites or if a site is not corectly blocked, the update may be made out of the update calendar.

The Administration Kit allows the administrator to configure the service. It is possible to include or remove categories of entertainment, show the local blocked sites list, add or remove URL's in the individual blocked sites list, verify in which categorie each URL is being blocked, configurations of adresses in the computers and proxies cascading, if necessary.

Netfilter is a server of high performance, able to receive consults to webpages in many stations, evaluate and filter them.

Please contact our technical support: +55 11 3068-8685/ +55 21 3872-2595 or email us: provedor@netfilter.com.br