Re: URL Filtering
From: Kerry Nice (bluemoses4@yahoo.com)Date: 03/13/02
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:10:45 -0800 (PST) From: Kerry Nice <bluemoses4@yahoo.com> To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
I use Guidescope (the next generation of Junkbuster),
www.guidescope.com, as an ad filter on my home network
and it works really well. You can set it up on one
computer and use it as a remote proxy. But it is a
proxy and you have to make sure it is either a
transparent proxy or each browser uses it as its
proxy.
I did try adding the squidguard blacklist to it, which
is thousands of sites, and the internet started
crawling. But I was running it on a Pentium I with 64
megs of memory, so your mileage might vary.
Probably the better way still would be combining Squid
with something else.
Squidguard is pretty nice and they even have a
prebuilt blacklist available:
http://www.squidguard.org/
http://www.squidguard.org/blacklist/
I also tried Ad Zapper and it could be extended too to
other things.
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/adzap/index.html
Anymore, my computer can't really handle squid and
something else, so I just log everything and yell at
the kids when I see something that isn't supposed to
be in there.
Kerry.
James Willmore wrote:
> Internet Junkbuster works well - and is open source.
I use it on a home PC and have had no trouble from
the software end. The tough part is setting up
regular expressions to filter content. You could just
use the straight "add all the URL's you want to
filter" approach, but then you have to maintain a lot
of URL's.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: James McGee [mailto:jm@mindless.com]
>>Sent: March 5, 2002 5:51 AM
>>To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
>>Subject: URL Filtering
>>
>>
>>Hi
>>
>>I have been given the task of reviewing a clients
URL
>>filtering setup, they currently use Websense, which
is
>>currently licensed to around 2000 users.
>>
>>They in fact have more like 20,000 users, so the
default
>>action on the licensing issue is to allow urls, once
license
>>theshold has been reached. Far from ideal.
>>
>>Anyway, Websense licensing costs, is proving to be
an issue.
>>I suppose all per-head type licenses would be.
>>
>>Therefore can anyone recommend a solution that
permits a
>>enterprise-wide type licensing solution, and is
fairly
>>competent, and reliable at its job?
>>
>>I am willing to look at any solution as long as it
is
>>scalable, reliable, easy to maintain, and cost
efficient.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
>>JM
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