PicBlock 1.0.5

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• Price: Free
• Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
• Date added: February 07, 2006
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• Average user rating: 2.0 stars out of 17 votes
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• Average user rating: 2.4 stars out of 17 votes
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• 1 stars

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

  Version: PicBlock 1.0.5

  "Absolutely worthless. Written by Elbonians."

  by jp0967 on April 6, 2006

  Pros: Uninstalls quickly. This is important because if you load it you'll be in a rush to do this.

  It's free so you aren't out any money. It would be grossly overpriced if it cost a nickel.

  Cons: After install locked up system after first restart - loaded about 250 running processes & an uncountable number of multiple program starts. Had to force a shutdown with power button. Incompatable with Symantec Firewall. On restart acted normal. Blurred out all the photos of people in Google News, but after finding a genuine adult site to test let EVERYTHING come through crystal clear. A complete waste of time.

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• 1 stars

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: PicBlock 1.0.5

  "NOOOOO GOOOOD!!!!!!!"

  by SAINTRATHO on February 18, 2006

  Pros: It makes for a great IDEA ONLY!!!

  Cons: Did NOT WORK AT ALL!!!!!!

  I installed this program because it said it looks at the "image" instead of the "adress."

  Sounds great, in theory.

  I decided to test it's protection level.

  Set all the strictest settings and password protected EVERYTHING.

  Then I searched and connected to the first Porn site I could find.

  ***NEVER STOPPED ME. All the images came up with NO warnings or even apeared to atempt to block ANYTHING.

  I checked my settings and tried again.

  Samething.

  ****DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM if you have children, or a porn addiction. It did not work AT ALL!!!!!

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• 1 stars

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: PicBlock 1.0.5

  "NO, THE PROBLEM IS NOT FIXED."

  by Leah B. on February 13, 2006

  Cons: Not only that, but now it won't let me uninstall it, saying that the administrative password that I know for a fact I just entered is "not valid." This software is junk. Go to Run, type in MSCONFIG, and disable it. That is apparently all you can do.

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• 2 stars

  Version: PicBlock 1.0.5

  "There are better free products out there than PicBlock 2.0"

  by JEfromCanada on June 20, 2007

  Pros: Easy to install.

  Straightforward settings allow you to password protect multiple activities (such as configuration, overriding blocks, uninstalling, and allowing web use when program is disabled).

  Can run in "stealth" mode (icons and notifications are disabled)

  Did not add significantly to download times for pages with images.

  Cons: Although you can set multiple levels of sensitivity, it's unclear what is blocked at various levels. I was getting a lot of false positives, so I reduced the level to its most lenient, and still got lots of false positives.

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• 5 stars

  Version: PicBlock 1.0.5

  "New version 2.0 is vastly improved, excellent protection for kids"

  by steveleecbay on May 6, 2007

  Pros: This new version is really two products in one. First it very effectively blocks and blurs objectional images that may come up in an image search on any of the search engines. Second, the new word blocking filter blocks sites with sexual, vulgar, hateful racist or other potentially objectional content. As a bonus, it even blocks words in several languages. This layered protection also works on the popular video and social networking sites.

  You can set the level of protection and it's password protected so the kids can't turn it off.

  After testing half a dozen commercial products and every free product I could find, I found that none of the products are perfect. Some are downright awful. Some want an annual subscription, some require you to add all the words to block yourself. Some are too confusing and complicated to use. I found that unwanted stuff could still get through on all of them. All of them sometimes block things that aren't objectionable. When and when not to block Paris Hilton is not an easy thing for a filter to do.

  I am computer teacher at a K-5 school with over 800 children coming to the computer lab each week. This is the product that I prefer for our desktop filtering solution. It installs easy, is simple to set up and combines word and image filtering.

  If you want to protect your family from porn, violence or other material on the net, try this new version. It works.

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