An investigation by the Swiss police uncovered child pornography had been downloaded from a Swiss hip-hop music website to around 2,300 computers in 78 countries.

It was announced today that apparently the videos of minors engaged in sexual acts were hidden in the Swiss site where the principal content was defined as “perfectly legal.” See full article at: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090629/wr_nm/us_swiss_pornogrpahy_1

This is yet another report of inherent danger of viewing videos online, with YouTube being the most popular method for distributing personal videos, what’s considered inappropriate is mixed up with a lot of good content. How should parents guide their families while navigating around these sites and not prevent them from viewing appropriate videos?

McAfee’s latest offering McAfee Family Protection has a unique feature to screen out inappropriate YouTube videos. Parents can either block YouTube filtering altogether or define the keywords and phrases so the search results can be blocked as well. For parents who simply do not know where to start, McAfee Family Protection will provide its own default filtering rules to block sexually suggestive or inappropriate content from being played.

Furthermore, it’s true that many sites may have legitimate content hence blocking rules aren’t applicable, they could be embedding inappropriate videos like the case in Switzerland – MFP will apply the same rules to filter YouTube content even it’s embedded in other sites.