By Aman Chabra, Local News 8 Reporter

Brigham Young University-Idaho is known for encouraging its students to strive for a higher moral standard. 

The school continues to live up to its reputation.  The administration recently encouraged students to download a piece of internet filtering software to their personal computers. 

Computers on campus are already protected from objectionable content by a firewall run by school administrators.  However, this firewall is designed to help students avoid stumbling onto questionable internet sites when working on their computers at home. 

The main concern for the administration: pornography.

"Right now, we're trying to get the word out to students so they can just be aware of what's out there, and have a resource to combat whatever bad content they might come across," said Kirk Rawlins with University Relations.

The service is called K9 Web Protection.  It's a free service provided by Blue Coat, a company specializing in corporate web filtering. 

K9 is free to download, and can be up and running on any computer within minutes. 

"The program is great because it's easy to use, and allows the user to determine just how much content is blocked," said Rawlins.

The service isn't required for the students to download.  However, the administration is hoping students will take advantage of the opportunity. 

"It's not that we're trying to monitor everyone on the internet, but we want students to know that we're working to help them stay away from temptation, especially with pornography, because that is an addiction," said Rawlins.

BYU-Idaho students appreciate the administration's concern.

"They wouldn't suggest it unless there was a reason, and the fact that they're watching out for us is nice to know," said Sarah May, a student studying Communications.

Coincidentally, Blue Coat, the company that runs K9, is the same company that provides the web filtering services for the Administrative Offices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  BYU-Idaho administration says they did not realize the connection until after the decision to choose K9 was already decided upon.