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Adult site blocking: Bing.com - anyway to block their search results?

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    • CommentAuthorjeep85
    • CommentTimeJun 2nd 2009
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    It's pretty easy for a kid to get access to porn through bing.com. Is there any way to apply the OpenDNS protections to the search results returned?
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    You can block the bing.com domain. It's an all or nothing proposal. You cannot use OpenDNS to filter individual results because OpenDNS is a DNS service. Once your system obtains an IP address for a domain, OpenDNS is out of the equation.
    • CommentAuthorjeep85
    • CommentTimeJun 2nd 2009
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    what would be nice is if google, yahoo, microsoft, etc. would provide a separate domain that has all porn filtering turned on. Something like safe.google.com. Then you could block the original google.com search and there would be no way to turn off filtering on the "safe" domain.
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    Yes, that would be nice. But don't hold your breath.
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    Set preferences with Google. You may want to get a Google account so the settings stick.

    For the level of filtering you might want, I'd suggest an application designed to do such things. (Filter by words, URLs, be practically improbably to work around, etc.) Some are applications + a service. Then it won't matter if there are other search providers, proxies, or other ways to circumvent your filtering, as users will not have access to these things.
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    Yea but bing.com you can go to the video part and just move your mouse over but not clicking on and watch the video. That is all porn to cartoon to movies. You don't have to click on it is the worst thing I have every seen coming from A IT guy. I have all ready had like 5 people looking at pron that way. Because they seen the new report and wanted to see if it will work.
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    If the videos come from a different domain than the main search engine, block that domain. Otherwise, block all of bing.com, and let them use a different search engine.
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    they have to click through on it since default level of filter is safe moderate.. it's not like they didn't know they were going to look at porn most likely.. if you block bing.com they will just find it another way most likely..
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    Until Microsoft gets it together I am forced to block bing.com from our network.
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeJun 3rd 2009
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    To block the bing.com's video thumbnails it is sufficient to add images.live.com to your "always block" list, or block category "Visual search engines".
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    gets what together? you have people knowingly clicking on prompts to turn off safe mode on your network.. seems you have bigger Problems then laying the blame all on Microsoft..
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    • CommentAuthorsabinac
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2009
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    I have "Visual search engines" blocked as well as bing.com added as an individual domain to block. I can still get to bing.com without issue. OPENDNS successfully blocks other sites. OPENDNS issue? What gives?
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    Did you flush you local resolver cache and browser cache after blocking bing?
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2009
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    Did you flush your browser cache and your local DNS cache (ipconfig/flushdns)?
    However, maybe it's not bing.com you are able to reach, but one of their content providers, Akamai, Edgesuite, Akadns, Live.com? You may need to block more domains to cover all.
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    I've been searching for a good solution to this, but have found none. The stink of it is, I like having a machine that goes BING. It's a great search engine. Problem is my teenage son has discovered this "feature", so I've had to block it. In an industry where 1% market share = a billion dollars Microsoft really can't afford to lose traffic because of something so stupid. I'd hate to think this was done purposefully in order to increase traffic. Hmmmm? Get rid of the porn ,Microsoft, and I’ll be back.
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    Ah, you missed it.
    MS created a separate domain since everyone complained. You want to block
    explicit.bing.net
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    Yeah!!!! I just tested it. All I get are pretty red Xs where vids should be. I have a machine that goes, "BING" again! THX
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    Excellent. Cheers!

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