Title: Newsletter 1 Internetfiltering.org
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INTERNETFILTERING.ORG
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Newsletter
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May 7 2002 |
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Welcome to our second
newsletter.
Last month we send our
first newsletter to 392 subscribers and we have had great responses from
some of them. This month we will be sending the newsletter out to over
1034 people. Thank you for all your words of praise and support and
making this newsletter grow so rapidly.
We have had 2 complaints so far by people not able to read our
newsletter in HTML format. If you are having the same problem please
send us a email and we will be happy to supply you with an plain text
version.
We are looking for articles and news from the filtering communities
around the globe. If you have a interesting piece of news or would like
to send us an article feel free to do so. Please send all articles to
newsletter.
Well it has been a quit month on the news side of things. In Ohio the
new Child Porn law has come under heavy
resistance. Where do we draw the line between freedom of speech and the
protection of the rights of others. There is now even talk within the
filtering community that adult pay sites do not need to be filtered
as these sites are inaccessible without a username and password. Do
people really forget about the free previews of these sites and then
also the websites were passwords and usernames for these services are
freely available. Then there is the
National
Academies' National Research Council that is of the opinion that
No one fix for Net porn and kids 'The whole idea of
supervision ... is overrated'. We hope that next month we can report
some positive commentary. All current news can be found on our
news page.
A couple of companies
have launched new or updated products:
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GFI
MailSecurity Earns Checkmark Certification for Anti-Virus
Protection. Comprehensive email security package utilizes multiple virus
engines to protect networks; also provides exploit detection, threats
analysis & email content checking. GFI has
announced that MailSecurity, its new email security package for Exchange
and SMTP servers, has been awarded Anti-Virus Checkmark Level 1
certification from West Coast Labs. The certification ensures that GFI
MailSecurity meets the Checkmark program's rigorous standards for
detecting in-the-wild viruses. The
Anti-Virus Checkmark is a globally recognized program that tests
computer security products to determine whether they can detect viruses
that are actually causing infections in the real world. Certification
under the program gives end users a clear and independent indication of
a given product's virus identification capabilities. The testing
procedure is repeated at least every three months to ensure continued
compliance.
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N2H2
Releases New Sentian(TM) FS Internet Filtering Product Line.
N2H2, Inc.
an Internet access management company specializing in fast and scalable
filtering solutions, today announced the release of the company's new
Sentian(TM) FS enterprise-class filtering software. Available on both
the Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux operating systems, the new
Sentian(TM) FS software is supported by the Cisco Systems PIX Firewall
v6.2 Operating System (OS). In 2001, industry analyst firm Frost &
Sullivan reported that Cisco was the number one firewall appliance
vendor with 50% of the U.S. commercial firewall appliance market.
Enterprise customers who want integrated Internet filtering with Cisco
PIX Firewalls now have a second choice. The Sentian(TM) FS feature set
is designed to readily accommodate the critical needs of enterprise
organizations, empowering companies of any size
to affordably manage Internet access and activity. The flexible
management tools of Sentian FS, combined with its sophisticated Internet
usage reporting, deliver quantifiable resource management results.
Some exciting
additions will be done to the website within the next couple of weeks.
Any
ideas on what you would like to see on the site or in the
newsletter, we would like to hear from you.
Till next month
The
Internetfiltering.org Team
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