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The function that K9 provides is not antivirus, anti-spam, or firewall functionality.
K9 is a Web filter; it determines where the computer user can go inside your Web browser.
(In our upcoming release, we'll also be offering Instant Message/Chat controls, and
Peer-to-Peer controls.)
You use K9 in conjunction with other antivirus, anti-spam, or firewall products from
vendors such as Computer Associates, McAfee, Symantec, ZoneLabs, Microsoft, and others.
Some of these vendors' product suites include Web filtering, but it isn't really their
area of expertise. We recommend that you use K9 instead of the Web filter you find in a
product suite, unless it's based on Blue Coat's K9 technology. (Today, only Computer
Associates has a suite with Blue Coat's K9 Web Protection as a part of their solution.)
K9 replaces parental control solutions from AOL, MSN, and others. Most of these other
solutions suffer from under-blocking or over-blocking. Almost all the others we looked at
just didn't do the job, and they were a large part of the reason Blue Coat decided to
introduce a consumer product. We wanted a solution for our homes that was as good as what
we were delivering to our enterprise customers.
And the best news is that, as part of the
Blue Coat Community Outreach Program,
K9 Web Protection is free.
As good as it is now, K9 will get even better as you and others use it. Every time K9
encounters a Web site it hasn’t seen before, it rates the images and text
immediately and adds that rating to its database. K9 does this so quickly you won't know
it's happening.
We'd like you to remember a couple of important points:
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Like an athlete, K9 technology trains constantly, building a better and better database
the more exercise it gets. So you win, and we win when you use it.
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K9 Web Protection uses the same technology we use for our enterprise customers. The
company and the technology are not going to disappear.
With the
Blue Coat Community Outreach Program,
we're both offering you a solution and asking you to get involved. We think it's
important, and we hope you do, too.
Please give us a try, and help create a family-safe Internet experience in your home.
Install K9 Web Protection today.
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