ICRAplus supports wildcards (*). The term wildcard simply means that the asterisk (*) can be used to mean any other character or group of characters. Many website addresses begin with “http://”, sometimes though, you’ll see “https://”, especially on sites that take credit cards, and occasionally you may see “ftp://” or other combinations. This is known […]
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Print this page You can block or allow lots of web addresses at once using wildcards. Large websites often have very complicated addresses. For example, if you visit the Microsoft site at www.microsoft.com, a link might take you to search.microsoft.com or support.microsoft.com. The key thing here is that all the web addresses end with microsoft.com. […]
Print this page This is the main screen through which you access the different filters you have installed. If you deactivate a filter from your list it will not play any part in filtering internet content (you can always reactivate it). ICRAplus itself is able to recognize ICRA labels embedded in web pages, so this […]
Print this page This is the screen that allows you to change the two passwords that only you, the administrator, should know. The administrator login and password This is the name and password you use to access the ICRAplus control panel. To get to this screen, or any other, you must already know your existing […]
Print this page The only thing that stands between ICRAplus and your child having unfiltered internet access is your password. Likewise, the only thing standing between you only being able to see the internet through the filter you’ve set up for your children and having full access is you remembering your password! There are actually […]
Print this page You can suspend all filtering at any time. Right click the ICRAplus icon in your system tray (at the bottom right-hand side of the screen) and select “Deactivate.” You will be prompted for the administrator password. Make sure you remember to reactivate it when you have finished and that you clear the […]
Print this page Click Edit>Preferences to bring up this dialogue: Click the small cross next to the word advanced on the left-hand side, then select cache to bring up this dialogue: Click both the Clear Memory Cache and Clear Disk Cache buttons. Click both the Clear Memory Cache and Clear Disk Cache buttons. Parents’ surfing […]
Print this page If you set up different profiles for different family members, each user will need to login to ICRAplus before using the internet. As a security feature, users will be asked to login again every so often while they are online (see the profiles section for details). Users may logout at any time. […]
Print this page This single page is the heart of ICRAplus! By making your selections on this page you can make detailed choices about what types of content you do or do not want members of your family to see. Alternatively, you can use a “filtering template” as a shortcut to those choices. Manual configuration […]
Print this page ICRAplus can be run on all versions of Windows from Windows 98 onwards (i.e. Win 98, ME, 2000, NT 4+ and XP). It can be run on Windows 95 if Winsock 2 is also installed. The ICRA website includes details of this procedure. NB. ICRAplus is a Windows application in its own […]