Why use a pornographic image blocker?

It's in your face

Finding pornographic (porn) images on the Internet is a trivial task. Anyone computer savvy enough to use a search engine can find porn images and sites with just a few clicks.

Porn images can be encountered by accident as well. Have you ever typed a web address incorrectly and landed on a porn site? Many porn sites purposley use web addresses similar in spelling to popular web sites, trapping users who may have spelled the intended address incorrectly.

Porn images aren't relegated to the Internet. E-mail is another medium heavily used by the porn industry. Have you ever received an e-mail with an innocent sounding subject line, only to find that it was a solicitation to visit a porn site?

Porn site operators employ many tricks to try and trap people into visiting their pages. Why? Because they know that even a glimpse can get you hooked. In fact, pornography is one of the most addicting substances known to man.¹

To protect your children

Does your middleschooler or teenager spend hours on his or her computer unattended? Have you done all you can to protect them from accidental or intentional exposure to porn images?

A recent study indicates nine out of ten children, ages 8 to 16 who have Internet access, have visited porn websites, usually in the course of looking up information for homework².

To protect your marriage

At a recent meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two-thirds of the divorce lawyers who attended said excessive interest in online pornography played a significant role in divorces in the past year.

According to the founder of the Center for Online Addiction, approximately 65% of people who visit their site, do so because of marital problems created by cyber pornography.

The relationship between pornographic addiction and maritial problems is real and profound. Maybe you know someone who is struggling in their marriage because of a pornographic addiction, or have faced this struggle in your marriage.

Some couples go so far as to remove all computer and Internet access from their home in order to avoid the temptations of pornography. With a porn image blocker installed you won't need to throw away your computer! You now have an ally, a trustworthy accountability partner that will silently protect you from the devasting effects of pornographic images.

To protect your company from lawsuits and productivity losses

The rapid proliferation of illegal and inappropriate image material on personal computers and computer networks is a growing problem for major corporations today in terms of loss productivity and sexual harrasment liability.

Dr. Mary Anne Layden, Co-director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the University of Pennsylvania touched on economic losses from pornography, stating that "70% of the hits on Internet sex sites occur between 9 and 5 on business computers."

In addition to economic loss due to lessened employee productivity, sexually explicit material generated, displayed or transmitted by the employer computer system may amount to sexual harassment of an employee who finds the material offensive. The employer may find himself or herself legally responsible for such harassment.

According to the American Magagment Association, "27% of the Fortune 500 companies have battled sexual harassment claims stemming from employee misuse and abuse of inappropriate images on corporate computers."

• Corporations are being sued by employees who have been sexually harassed through the use of emails by their co-workers which contain pornographic images


• Corporations are being sued by employees who have been exposed to pornographic internet content being accessed by their co-workers


• Corporations may suffer criminal prosecution when employees disseminate pornography using the employer IT infrastructure


• Corporations may suffer criminal prosecution if they neglect to prevent employees from downloading child pornography into the workplace using employer IT infrastructure from the internet or any other source


• Individual executives may personally suffer criminal prosecution if they neglect to prevent employees from downloading child pornography into the workplace using employer IT infrastructure from the internet or any other source

A porn image blocker helps mitigate the risk of lawsuits and productivity losses by filtering and blocking porn images at the desktop level.

PicBlock is a revolutionary tool that filters every image displayed in your web browser or e-mail client and blocks pornographic images from being shown. Unlike traditional porn blocking tools that rely on keyword filters and constantly outdated blacklists, PicBlock blocks porn by detecting the amount of flesh tones in images.

Features include:

• Works in any web browser


• Works in any e-mail program


• Is a cinch to install, setup and operate


• Lets you set permissions for what users can and cannot do


• Lets authorized users unblock images incorrectly blocked


• Maintains a list of safe sites as a result of an unblock action


• Maintains a protected log of all block/unblock activity


• Is tamper resistent, even for computer savvy individuals


• Best of all, it's absolutely FREE!

System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP


• Any Web browser or e-mail client


• 8MB RAM, 10MB Hard Drive Space


• An Internet connection

You can download PicBlock here.

¹ Exposed: Simple Fantasy or Obsession? - Jennifer Schneider, Psychologist Victor Cline, and many others.
² The Science Behind Pornography Addiction" - presented to the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space on November 18, 2004
³John Rabun, former head of the Department of Justice's Missing and Abducted Children Center in a 1984 Senate Hearing held by the California Protective Parents Association.