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Block pornographic images from your computer. Traditional porn blocking tools limit your choice of image search engines, rely on constantly outdated URL blacklists, and are easy for any tech savvy teenager to circumvent. Picblock uses revolutionary filters to block pornographic images by examining images for pornographic content, whether accessed from a Web page or loaded from a USB thumbdrive. Picblock also analyzes address and page content for sexually explicit keywords in dozens of languages, resulting in a powerful, two-pronged approach to filtering out pornographic content. Features include: . Detect pornographic images in web pages, e-mail messages, iTunes album art - any HTTP-based content. Block pornographic images from being displayed in Windows Explorer or loaded in any viewer program. Filter for sexually explict words in dozens of languages including English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Arabic. Facial recognition reduces false positives by identifying whether a questionable image is actually a person's face. . Customize filtering sensitivity levels . Require a password to unblock content or change settings. Create a list of 'safe' sites manually or as a result of an unblock action. View a tamper proof log of all block/unblock activity. Very tamper resistant, even for computer savvy individuals. Enterprise installation options for mass distribution . Silent Mode for stealth filtering. Developer SDK (API) available . Is easy to install, configure and operate. Best of all, it's absolutely free for personal use.
What's new in this version: Version 4.2.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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"REALLY BAD"
Version: PicBlock 3
Pros
NOTHING IS GOOD
Cons
EVERYTHING LIKE SLOWING DOWN YOU COMPUTER, CAN'T GO ON THE INTERNET, DOES NOT EVEN BLOCK PORN I TESTED IT, IT ONLY BLOCKS NONE PORN STUFF ONLY THINGS THAT ARE NOT PORN SO PLEASE DON'T MAKE AN OTHER ONE PLEASE!!!
Summary
BAD!!!
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"I downloaded and it's not blocking porn pics & videos."
Version: PicBlock 3
Pros
Nothing yet, not working
Cons
That it is not blocking like it should
Summary
Why is it not working ?
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"Good start, needs work"
Version: PicBlock 3
Pros
Blurs out bad pictures
On some sites, it kept the faces but blurred out the naughty bitsCons
Blurs out regular pics
Unblocking sites still didn't help
Could not shut down program with taskmgr (BIG CON)Summary
The bottom line is this a great start, but it needs work. Hand this concept over to the OpenSource community and let them have a crack at it. The fact of the matter is, I went to one porn site and it blocked out the girls breasts and lower regions, but kept her face clear. Bad thing is, it also blocked a ton of google news and drudgereport pics as well. Download Ad-Block Plus and use it until they find something better.
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"Kills internet connection/system restore at uninstall."
Version: PicBlock 3
Pros
None, it didn't work at all.
Cons
Kills upon uninstall, I had to re-image my machine!
Doesn't work with anything I had.
Gave me an ICA proxy error (with no proxy setup) and stopped letting my PC from renewing my IP (repair) upon restart.
I had XP SP3 build 2600 or 2100Summary
Beware of this seemingly suspicious application! It brought me down (with several good antivirus running) and it'll bring your PC down.
Just to clarify, this killed my PCs ability to gain an IP address, use safe mode and conduct a system restore.
I waster 2 hours getting my laptop re-imaged for this mess.
Updated on Jan 24, 2010
I tried restoring the original system files and that didn't help either. :-( -
"good i like it"
Version: PicBlock 3
Pros
good I like it
Cons
good I like it
Summary
good/great
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"Great idea too long in coming."
Version: PicBlock 3
Pros
FREE and Easy to setup and configure
Cons
Lack of recognition of pornographic images , and false positives
Summary
PicBlock 3 is a great idea which, on the face of it, should be a solution to web pages with pornograghic content. It is simple to install and use and the setup options are easy to understand but, it falls flat on its face when it comes to pornographic picture recognition. The program was tested using IE 7 and sure enough it blocked the offending pages form opening. However, adjusting the settings to allow the page to load but to have the offending pictures pixalated out did not function correctly at all with any of the availble settings .
False positives will occur as expected owing to the very nature of the recognition process, and some people may be offended by the taxi on the cover of Taxi 3 Extreme Rush or the logo for Kaspersky, to name but two innoucuous pictures which were pixalated, but when it came to the outright naked pornography, the images remained for all to see.
I can only rate PicBlock with 2 stars, one for the concept of the program and one for its limited recognition or lack thereof -
"Good general picture blocker."
Version: PicBlock 3
Pros
Generally worked.
Cons
Not always effective.
Summary
It did not seem to work well on certain web sites.
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"WARNING! MALWARE! DO NOT INSTALL!"
Version: PicBlock 3
Pros
Nice concept...
Cons
Would not install properly, even with security apps disabled. Lots of error messages. Attempting to uninstall kills internet access, System Restore, and Safe Mode! Computer functions slowed by over 1000 percent! No response from tech support.
Summary
DON"T RISK THE STABILITY AND FUNCTIONALITY OF YOUR SYSTEM!
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"Worked then crashed. Not worth the trouble."
Version: PicBlock 3
Pros
Great idea and it worked initially. Blocked some non-pornographic pictures, but generally did block pornographic ones.
Cons
Began to fail at startup, both on XP SP2 and Vista Home Premium. Worse yet, even after supposedly closing the application (an option once the error occurred), it caused Windows Explorer to close repeatedly, again under both OSs. Bottom line: Not worth the trouble.
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"Works as described!"
Version: PicBlock 3
Pros
A cool, free alternative to the bloated parental control tools on the market. I love the fact that my daughter can still use search engines for her homework assignment, and know she'll be protected. It does a good job of blocking images - tested by using MSN and Google image search with strict control turned off, and searched for terms such as nude, naked, bikini, etc. and it blocked virtually all of image results. Yet innocuous pictures were not blocked (for the most part). I couldn't tell how well the image blocking worked on regular word searches because picblock’s bad word filtering kept blocking any sexually explicit word I tried, in both English and Spanish. I'm pretty happy with it so far.
Cons
Sometimes benign images are blocked. When that happens I usually unblock them and then add the web site to picblock's "safe" list. That way my kids don't ask me 10 times a day to unblock some wrongly blocked image.
