My name is Martin Brendal and I’d like to share a little story with you. Perhaps you’ll be able to relate to my story and the horror I was faced with like so many other parents I know.
One day while at the dinner table my 7 year old daughter asked me why some people are naked on the computer. My wife and I nearly fell out of our chairs.
I asked her why she didn’t yell for mommy or daddy and she said she just "X’ed" it off because she was afraid we’d get mad at her.
We assured her we wouldn’t be mad… and that it wasn’t her fault … but also explained to her that she needed to let mommy or daddy know if that ever happened again.
I’m not a passive parent. I’m pro-active in everything I do … especially when it comes to ensuring my children are safe and protected when they’re on the computer.
So, that evening I went on a mission and checked every computer and every setting on the filtering software we had installed. And I made sure everything was configured correctly. Turns out it was. So I figured it must’ve been a fluke. But I was still mad as hell and very concerned.
Fast forward a few weeks and life went on uneventful for the most part. Once again I felt confident we nipped the problem in the butt fast and it wouldn’t happen again.
My wife was now paying more attention to our children when they were online… and everything seemed to be going smoothly. Whew!
Then one day I was checking emails in my home office and I got one of those "Hot Naked Girls Live" emails. I’m sure you know the kind I’m talking about.
I deleted it immediately … but couldn’t help wondering why my filtering software let me down again. Hell.. that could have been my son or daughter that got that email.
Once again.. I was very upset and even more determined I was going to find a better way to protect my family from all this obscene, adult material.
I came home from work one day about 4:30 in the afternoon. My son and I had plans to go to a high school football game that evening and I was excited to get home and spend time with him.
My wife was in the kitchen cooking dinner, while my daughter was busy helping mommy by peeling the husks off the corn cobbs she was getting ready to cook.
I threw my coat over the back of the couch, went into the kitchen and gave my two girls a kiss hello — and asked where Ryan was. My wife told me he was upstairs in his bedroom doing his homework.
I ran upstairs to let him know I was home. I was so excited for our "boys" night out. We didn’t get to spend nearly enough time together.
He knew I was mad. He could see it in my eyes and hear it in my voice. He told me one of his friends from school gave him a link to this website at lunch – and he was curious so he checked it out.
Now what? Once again I thought I blocked all this stuff. Why was he able to access this site? And what was I supposed to do now?
That weekend I called my brother just as I did every weekend – but this time it wasn’t just to see how the family was doing and shoot the breeze a little …
The truth is… we rarely got to see each other … him living in Dallas Texas as the Lead Developer of a small software engineering firm … and myself in Missouri as a busy salesman for a large corporation … but we always made sure we found the time to speak on the phone every weekend.
But this weekend… I had a mission to accomplish. This phone call wasn’t just for casual chit-chat… I needed his help!
I explained to him what’s been happening with my kids and the whole "porn" issue I was having. I knew if anyone could help me it was him. After all, he manages a small team of software developers for a living.
We talked for several hours. I told him I wanted him to help me develop the absolute best software ever invented that would GUARANTEE my family was safe but also help other families protect their children from Internet porn and uninvited adult content.
Block Offensive Content Before It Appears (Works behind the scenes and stops harmful websites before they appear, including newsgroups)
Integration With All Search Engines (This means your children can’t search on a search engine and even see links to blocked sites. This new internet safety feature enables better protection against pornographic images when doing an "image only" search.)
Stop Illegal File Sharing / P2P Software (Only program on the net to block over 50 File Sharing Programs)
Works with IE 5.0+, FireFox, Netscape, Opera (Smart and effective content filtering works with any and all the popular browsers!)
Works with UNLIMITED # Of Windows Users (And is impossible to close or bypass, even by the smartest of users!)
Block All Chat Software (Chat can be fun but it’s also a very dangerous place where sex predators like to target kids, restrict chat effortlessly!)
Special Social Networking (Blocking or limited access to popular but potentially inappropriate services such as MySpace and FaceBook.)
Automatic ScreenShots (Secretly take high quality pictures of the screen every every x minutes and then view a handy DVD style slide show later to see everything!)
Clever Keyword Filtering (Lets you block a wide range of offensive websites both brand new and old!)
Password Control (makes sure only YOU can use the program, the only way to bypass the software is with your unique administrator password, which only you as the parent knows.)
The fact is… I wanted MyPornBlocker™ to be much more than just a porn…
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