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Free Online Malware protection
Do you want Free Malware and Adult Content protection? Home Internet usage is on the rise globally, and with that so are certain dangers. It has become more important than ever to protect your family from dangerous and malicious sites.
According to Statista.com, the number of individual Malware types went from just under 29 Million in 2010 to around 678 Million by 2020. These types and threats include two of the biggest and costly threats both in time and money. Namely Phishing and Ransomware. These attacks are expected to cost the world as much as $8 Billion by 2025. Even scarier is that on average there are now over 5.6 Billion attacks per year. These are mostly on business, but also on normal home users and consumers.
Attackers often hide harmful code in websites, downloads and they craft emails that seem normal. The emails appear to be from trusted companies like your bank, or utility company. These attacks can put your family’s private information in the wrong hands and cost you a lot of money. Malware can damage your devices, and capture credit card details and passwords.
1.1.1.1 for Families adds a layer of malware protection to your home Wi-Fi, automatically blocking access to known malicious sites. Often these sites are crafted to look exactly like the legitimate site that you know and trust. Making it easy to hand over your personal information accidentally and unwittingly.
Just as important is protecting your kids from adult content. There is also Adult Content Protection. Although older teens might well find a way around this, younger kids playing on a tablet or online might accidentally open an adult site. Cloudflare can help mitigate that if you use this free service.
1.1.1.1 for Families, by Cloudflare, is built on top of the same site categorization and filtering technology that powers Cloudflare’s enterprise products. It uses Cloudflare’s Internet intelligence to filter content on your home Internet network. What makes this so easy is that you do not have to install any 3rd party applications on your devices. If you have access to your home router’s configuration then it’s simple. All you have to do is change the DNS server settings from your existing Internet Provider supplied ones.
To get Free Malware and Adult Content protection, all you need to do is change your router’s DNS servers or the DNS servers that your router allocates via DHCP. There are also Apps available to make this easier on the device level. You can either make use of Only the Malware Protection or the Malware and Adult Content Protection. The choice is yours.
Change your router DNS to:
- 1.1.1.2
- 1.0.0.2
Need Adult content filtering too?
Keep adult content away from kids on your network with always-on content controls. No more subscriptions to expensive Adult Content filtering systems.
To protect your home wifi from Malware and Adult content change your router DNS to:
- 1.1.1.3
- 1.0.0.3
1.1.1.1 is Fast, it will not slow down your internet speeds, unlike some other 3rd party filtering sites.
The 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver is Fast, one of the fastest, and could make your internet connection even faster.
Don’t take our word for it. The independent DNS monitor DNSPerf ranks 1.1.1.1 the 3rd fastest DNS service in the world. (January 2022) Since nearly everything you do on the Internet starts with a DNS request, choosing a fast DNS server across all your devices will accelerate almost everything you do online. The faster your device can resolve the hostnames. The faster your desired page will load.
For more information on Setting up 1.1.1.1 Malware and Adult Protection. Or a more detailed explanation on how it works visit Cloudflare’s Set up 1.1.1.1 for Families page.
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