Content Advisor and the ICRA system it uses, depends on sites carrying an appropriate ICRA label. As this is a voluntary action on the part of the web author, not all sites carry our labels (although a growing number do!)
Content Advisor allows you to customize your settings to your own particular preferences and there are two key areas to consider:
- Whether or not to allow access to sites which do not carry an ICRA label (“sites that have no rating”);
- Whether you wish to allow or disallow access specified sites irrespective of whether or not they are carrying an ICRA label.
Content Advisor has features to allow you exercise such controls.
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If you don’t already have the Content Advisor dialogue box open, from the Internet Explorer tool bar (top of screen) select [Tools] > [Internet Options] and select the [Content] tab. |
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In the Content Advisor section at the top, click the [Settings] button. |
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Enter your password and click OK. |
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Now click the [General] tab and you will see the dialogue box below:  If you decide not to allow access to sites that have no rating AND that you don’t want to allow the option of entering a supervisor password, this is likely to lead to very severe restrictions on internet access. While momentum builds behind the ICRA system, most users check both of the options at the top of this dialogue box… and then go on to the next step. |
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Now we’re going to add in some specific sites that we do or do not want to allow access to. If you have decided to allow access to sites that have no rating, then you will probably want to block access to specific sites. Alternatively, if you chose not to allow access to sites that have no rating, then it is likely that you will want make a list of sites to which you DO want to allow access. Either way, click the [Approved Sites] tab to bring up the dialogue box below:  To add a site of which you approve, first type its url (its web address) into the box at the top:  Notice that two buttons are now available: [Always] and [Never]. Click [Always] to allow access, [Never] to block it, both irrespective of any ICRA label they may or may not have. If you click [Always], the url will appear in the lower box with a green tick (check). If you chose [Never], a red “no entry” icon appears.  |
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These options provide for a fine level of control over the filtering applied to your computer. You can change your settings, add or delete urls from the Approved Sites list at any time by returning to these dialogue boxes – all of which are under password control. |