Re: content filter how to?
From: Charles Newman (charlesnewman1@attbi.com)Date: 05/27/02
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From: "Charles Newman" <charlesnewman1@attbi.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 07:52:47 GMT
I have heard that SuperScout for business and Cyber Patrol
are merging into one program, Cyber Patrol 6.0. You will be
able to filter over 40 different categories of sites. Not only
will you protect students from porn and violence, but you can
also keep school employees from surfing non work related
sites as well.
"x y" <jamescagney90210@excite.com> wrote in message
news:#OVy#VPBCHA.1136@cpimsnntpa03...
> "Taliban1818," that's an unfortunate email address you chose, considering
> the human rights problems, terrorist activities, torturing and killing
> associated with that group.
>
> I think a large number of the solutions out there all use the same
CyberNot
> list subscription. CyberPatrol makes several different types of software
> that offer I think the most flexibility, in that they allow you to block
> total number of internet hours in a day, total number of internet hours in
a
> week, and block certain hours on certain days, like no surfing at lunch or
> at midnight. They also allow you to block not just web surfing, but it
can
> also inspect chat sessions for objectionable words and personal
information
> like students giving out phone numbers, and you can add other
> internet-accessing programs like internet-based games and obscure chat
> clients. All these are features that are I think hard to find in other
> programs, and are features that you would want in order to be able to
block
> absolutely all internet access.
>
> Cyberpatrol comes in at least three flavors: software that is installed
> locally on the workstation that is easily hacked, software that is run on
> the workstation but is installed on a central file server [which may or
may
> not be more secure that the first version], and SuperScout Server which is
a
> server that sits on your network and, if it is fast enough, tries to block
> the files or web pages when they come back into the network. Note that
this
> is not a proxy server, as the traffic does not pass through it. I would
> imagine that if the server locked up or stopped responding, it would not
> block traffic.
>
> Then there are other products like Netgear routers and Netscreen firewalls
> that include cyber-not list content filtering. These products are
possibly
> harder to hack than the CyberPatrol / SuperScout, but you don't get a lot
of
> the features of CyberPatrol, so there are some things these products
> probably can't block.
>
> The best solution is probably to use both products together, to get the
best
> features of both. But this would cost more.
>
> No matter what product you buy, there are always going to be legitimate
> sites that are accidentally blocked, and undesirable sites that are not
> blocked.
>
>
> "taliban1818" <taliban1818@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:8910ea8a.0205251846.7ce48815@posting.google.com...
> > I need to setup a proxy/firewall for a school, they want to filter
> > unapropiate content (violence/sex/drugs/etc), do you have tips on
programs
> > to use? Are there databases/lists with site with unapropiate content
which
> > these programs can use?
> >
> > Please email tips as well,
> >
> > Thank you.
>
>
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