A free online tool developed by two Tauranga IT professionals aims to protect young children from pornography.
Aaron Sinclair, 44, and Rory Birkbeck, 34 have spent the past six months working on Safesurfer, an online setting that offers malware protection and can protect your network and children from adult content.
Mr Sinclair, who has two young children, looked on the market for a product to do this, but could not find anything simple so came up with the idea of a network device that filtered the internet and Mr Birkbeck worked with him to develop the idea into an online cloud version.
They said the main reason behind the creation was to help parents ensure their children were not exposed to online pornography.
"There are people on my street who have kids and I know that the moment they are unsecure, there is potentially a gateway for their kids to come in and access and bump into stuff accidentally.