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Funbrain<br />

This is an entertainment site. Still, this site enhan<strong>ce</strong>s learning through<br />

interactive games like Math Baseball etc. It also offer a range of comics and<br />

Web books like Amelia Write Again.<br />

Funbrain gives parents the opportunity to break content depending on their<br />

kid's age. In conclusion, your kid's will not ac<strong>ce</strong>ss inappropriate content and<br />

emails.<br />

Click here to get to Funbrain‟s page.<br />

National Geographic Kids, Pottermore, Highlights Kids, Funology, and<br />

Whyville are other kid‟s friendly sites.<br />

Create Email Names that are hard to Crack<br />

The majority of spammers use computer programs to guess email addresses.<br />

So, if your kid's email address doesn't contain numbers and underscores i.e.,<br />

they are vulnerable to any kind of spamming. Research shows that email<br />

address containing numbers, letters, and underscores are had to crack. Make<br />

sure, your kids use them when creating their own email address.<br />

Read Emails in Plain Texts<br />

Spammers have used this technique to steal active email addresses. An<br />

email spam written in HTML contains programs that re-direct your kid's<br />

web browser to the advertising page. HTML are codes used to create web<br />

pages. So, images in the emails are designed to send messages to the<br />

spammers. From here on, spammers use the images to spot active email<br />

addresses.<br />

So, to prevent your kids from this kind of spam, set the computer to read<br />

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