Re: Personal Internet Filtering

From: Malke (notreally_at_invalid.com)
Date: 10/02/05 

Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:00:01 -0700

N. Miller wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 21:23:24 -0400, Jordan wrote:
>
>> At work I have an Internet filtering program that integrates with my
>> ISA
>> 2004 server (Dynacomm iFilter). This works great for a company
>> because it filters out millions of sites that they have already
>> catagorized as adult, gambling, hate speech, political, etc. and it
>> is only X amount per user on top of a standard fee.
>>
>> Unfortunatley, it is too expensive for home and I would have to have
>> a server and a proxy like ISA to filter out crap I don't want my
>> family
>> exposed to. Are there any personal PC solutions out for the home
>> user to be able to filter out different catagories of sites for each
>> XP user?
>
> From your headers:
>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-128-253-229.hsd1.nh.comcast.net 24.128.253.229
>
> Are you behind a NAT router? If it is one of the higher end SOHO
> products, you may have a limited number of slots for site blocking. I
> have a Netgear FR114P which has 32 slots for blocking sites by URL,
> and it can also be configured with outbound blocks by IP address. I
> have not hit a limit on those filters, yet. Router blocks affect the
> entire LAN, not just the computer which is running the blocking proxy.
>

You could set up a Linux proxy server with a firewall and running Squid
for not much money, but that will be pretty hard to do unless you have
a good set of tech skills. There are appliances like InstaGate, but
they are expensive. For all filtering programs - like the one run at my
kid's school (I forget the name) - there is an initial expense and then
a yearly subscription fee.

You might want to look into a NetNanny solution instead.

Good luck,

Malke 

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