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[summerstormpictures]

''OpenDNS Chosen to Deliver Parental Controls on NETGEAR's Wireless Routers'' (announcement on OpenDNS)

Considering how long it takes for firmware to happen at D-Link, it's really way past time to get proactive and get this kind of thing into the development pipeline. There's just too many ''bad folks'' producing ''bad stuff'' out there designed to sneak in and steal information from non-tech-saavy users, and partnerships like this could go a long way toward fighting this crap. It's really a no-brainer.

The ''battle'' is really just too big for one single company anymore--especially in this economy. Leading companies in the tech world need to ''team up'' like this, because when ''Joe Average'' is hit in the wallet by mal-crap, their financial woes only crawl back up to the bottom line of tech companies who sell them their toys.

It's a win-win scenario so obvious that it would baffle me if other makers of networking devices didn't jump onboard.

Just FYI--I am in no way whatsoever connected with either NetGear, Apple or OpenDNS. Months back I upgraded from an older/slower Netgear wireless router -- first to the way overpriced Apple/Airport -- and then because of ''rave reviews'' in the Mac community, to the D-Link DIR-655.

Show us you care about us D-Link...before it's too late...for both of us.

[EddieZ]

How about Dlink's Securespot...? Was there before Netgear and OpenDNS teamed up.

[KevTech]

Well, if you are so excited about it then go buy a Netgear is how I feel.

Securing a PC is not hard even for "non-tech-saavy" people.
How to do it is all out there but YOU have to take the time to read then implement it.
Parental controls start with YOU the parent not any third party or company.
If YOU can not control what your children do online then it speaks volumes about how you are as a parent IMO.

[summerstormpictures]

How about Dlink's Securespot...? Was there before Netgear and OpenDNS teamed up.

Yes, but OpenDNS is free, platform independent and far more useful than the paid service SecureSpot offered by D-Link. Now if SecureSpot were offered free to purchasers of a D-Link box, it might be added value. In the current economic storm, such gestures for the common good--those whose hard-earned money a company might want to have instead of letting it fly off the grid to some nefarious criminal element--would seem to be a good investment.

Well, if you are so excited about it then go buy a Netgear is how I feel.

Do you really want me to do this? Do you work for D-Link? I hope not because this sort of knee-jerk defensive attitude is not what I'd want my corporate image to reflect.

Securing a PC is not hard even for "non-tech-saavy" people.

Tell that to millions of people--senior citizens particularly--who daily fall victim to online related malware and other bad things. I know some. Trust me. It happens--more than you realize. A goodwill gesture similar to what NetGear is undertaking by partnering with OpenDNS is exactly the kind of example a responsible company might want to follow.

How to do it is all out there but YOU have to take the time to read then implement it.

Trust me. I do. Unfortunately there are many who do not. I realize you personally do not care but there are people like me who do--and who spend hours helping others protect themselves.

Parental controls start with YOU the parent not any third party or company.

Where did you cut and paste that from?

If YOU can not control what your children do online then it speaks volumes about how you are as a parent IMO.

You seem to assume I am a parent. Not entirely sure from where you draw this conclusion.

Again, how come the initial reaction by ''the usual suspects'' here when confronted by measured criticism is to react defensively? I don't get it.

[Fatman]

EddieZ and KevTech, you really need to quit this.  You are making me look bad, beating me to the punch in all these threads lately, and your spot on comments in this one.  Are you guys trying to hijack my job or what?

But in all seriousness, not only am I going to post a flaming

What They Said

I am also going to go as far as to point out that OpenDNS takes 30 seconds to apply to our routers as well, we just don't ass-u-me that you will always want to use their service by default.  Some people are still required by their ISP to use the ISP provided DNS servers.

[EddieZ]

Just sit back and relax. 

[Fatman]

Oh and BTW, D-Link employees will have a title and badge(s) under their name like my "Tech Engineer" title and badge.

If they are in their bailiwick they will also have a mod badge combined with their standard badge.

That is how you can tell us D-Link'ers from the people who just realize that they can get quick laughs by posting on this board, or who perhaps do it for more altruistic reasons.

[summerstormpictures]

Well, either way, I'm done with this particular topic/thread. I offered my position and I stand by it.

[Fatman]

And despite the fact that we are all kind of jokers here it is worth noting that your opinion is valid, we just don't agree and are happy to tell you why.

[EddieZ]

Oh and BTW, D-Link employees will have a title and badge(s) under their name like my "Tech Engineer" title and badge.

If they are in their bailiwick they will also have a mod badge combined with their standard badge.

That is how you can tell us D-Link'ers from the people who just realize that they can get quick laughs by posting on this board, or who perhaps do it for more altruistic reasons.

I'm here for the ego boost.

[Johnnyboy!]

Would it be too much to ask (politely) for D-Link to consider adding an OpenDNS IP updater service, much like there is a DynDNS IP update service built in in?

I realize OpenDNS technically competes with a paid-for service from D-Link, and D-Link can't spend all of their time researching and adding support for all the IP services on the internet, but I think enough people on this list used OpenDNS for improved DNS service (over my ISP), rather than parental controls.

I used both systems, and it is nice to have my ever changing IP be updated with DynDNS, but I still have to run the OpenDNS updater software. It would be very helpful if this could be built in.

jB

[EddieZ]

It would not surprise me if OpenDNS would either block this feature or ask money from Dlink for it.

It's a nice suggestion, but I would prefer other features to be added that may benefit more customers.

[KevTech]

Tell that to millions of people--senior citizens particularly--who daily fall victim to online related malware and other bad things. I know some. Trust me. It happens--more than you realize. A goodwill gesture similar to what NetGear is undertaking by partnering with OpenDNS is exactly the kind of example a responsible company might want to follow.

I work with all kinds of people about securing their PC's and I show them how to do it not just apply some setting or install some software for them then tell them they are protected.

You can do a lot more by explaining what NOT to click on or open than any software or setting can do.
I would never apply some software or setting to a PC then tell someone "no worries now as you are protected". I would rather explain what they can do themselves for protection and how they can do it. Even "non tech savvy" people can secure a PC if you explain how so give them a chance. 

Years ago my mother knew nothing about PC security but after I showed her what/when/how she now teaches her friends and they have all been malware free since.

You are never too old to learn but it seems some do not want to teach when it comes to PC's.

[Fatman]

Good thing it is not EddieZ's call, or even mine.  It is not to much to ask, this is probably the best place for it in fact.

We may as I warned summerstormpictur explain why we disagree, but we have no say anyhow.

[Lycan]

Open DNS does work, for any router. Change the DNS servers and it will work. We don't partner with them because we offer our own product.  

Summerstorm claims that we should give things away for free because someone else does or because the economy is suffering from a downturn. This is untrue. I DO work for D-link, and I LOVE my job. In order for me to continue to have a job we need to SELL things. While I'll admit that SecureSpot is a small piece of that, it's still a piece and in the "current economic storm" every piece counts.

Just my two cents.