<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">If your friend is not technical you could install a custom /etc/hosts file (<a href="https://www.hostsfile.org/hosts.html">https://www.hostsfile.org/hosts.html</a> for instance) to block undesirable sites. It's not a total solution, but it could help.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 3:02 PM David Needle <<a href="mailto:davidneedle@gmail.com">davidneedle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Friend of mine has been dealing with a porn addiction issue
for many years. He lives on the East Cost (I’m in California) so it’s hard to
help directly. But I have over the years with mixed results. He’s had computers
that he’s ended up smashing in frustration and gone years without using one at
all because of the issue. He also uses a bare bones cellphone because of the
issue.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">His last computer was three years ago and we used a family protection
service by Symantec a filter that worked really well (I had the password),
until it didn’t. This doesn’t quite make sense to me, but as he explains it, he
was getting pop up ads from Comcast offering free wifi on an hourly basis. He
said these would pop up even when he was offline. I’m not sure how that could
be so, but I guess if it was embedded in the computer it’s possible. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Anyway, what happened was he would buy hourly time and that
connection for some reason subverted or was immune to the filter so he could do
whatever he wanted and that was not a good thing. He ended up shutting down the
computer and stopped using it. I suspect he’s not giving an accurate
description of what happened. It may be he ended his Internet provider (and
Symantec) and then got the Comcast offers, etc. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In any case, he wants to try getting a computer again which
he needs for email etc. and starting with the filter again, but is worried
about this Comcast issue happening again. It’s a weird situation to be using
this “family filter” because he’s in his 50s, but seems to be the only
solution. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Anyone have any ideas or thoughts? I’m thinking just go
ahead with Symantec again and see what happens. I don’t think he’ll get those
ads with a new laptop. I think they were some vestige of the last computer that
a friend gave to him. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thanks in advance, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br>David</p></div></div>
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