Family Guardian- Compare

Family Guardian is powered by S4F Technology. This technology provides you with the most effective Internet protection available coupled with features that really matter!

But don't take our word for it. See what the experts are saying!

Though no true filter stops 100% of the targeted sites. Independent testing estimates that 90% to 99% of the targeted sites are blocked by Family Guardian at any given time. This percentage fluctuates as new sites go on-line every day.

The actual percentage is very difficult to obtain. Independent tests have placed us anywhere from 90% to 99%. By far the best number to credibly claim, are the results from the InfoPeople Project, which was done by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. Public librarians tested nine companies, including X-Stop, N2H2, CyberPatrol and Websense. Their report was issued in May of 2001.

On "Scored On Should Block" Family Guardian's S4F received a rating of 92%. By comparison, N2H2 received 100% (their issue has always been over-blocking), Websense received 92%, and CyberPatrol received 77%. (Other tests have placed us higher, but the methods in most tests are so far from scientific, that it is difficult to get accurate numbers. The reality is that the accuracy changes every hour of every day.)

One other test that we did, just to see how we stacked up against our competitors, was to obtain a third-party list of porn sites. We took 100 unique domains and IP addresses that we had recently added to our database and built a webpage of links for these 100 sites, downloaded other filters, and started clicking. We were genuinely surprised by the results.

Product	Blocking Test
Family Guardian - S4F	100%
N2H2	91%
We-Blocker	59%
X-Stop	45%
Cyber Patrol 5.0	27%
SmartFilter	17%

The sites were not new or obscure sites. Most were regular dot-com sites with names like xxxitch.com and virginbeach.com.

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