There is a company called content technologies which make a product called
Mimesweeper, I used this and although it did the job it didn't do what the
company promised and took a long time to get working properly with
everything else such as Virus, mail, web, firewall servers.
Another product that I thought looked better at purchase time was called
I-Gear, it allowed remote configuration via a web interface. Both products
scanned email as well as web and the Mimesweeper also uncompressed zips and
tars also opened MS Word documents, etc and checked for upgrade.
If you are not too bothered about picking up unacceptable text the best
product I have seen is WEBSense, the version I used was a CVP for
firewall-1 and was really easy to configure if you are familiar with
Firewall-1, this product is a url blocked and downloads new lists each day,
also you can add your own to the main site so they can be updated for
everybody.
Hope this helps.
At 10:25 AM 11/01/2000 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>You can check out www.elronsoftware.com. They have several tools which may
>be useful to you.
>
>Regards - Bipin Amin.
>IT Secure Software Pvt. Ltd. India.
>
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>From: Miss Yvette Seifert Hirth, CCP, CDP[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 10 01 2000 23:29
>To: List Server, Firewalls
>Subject: Content Filtering
>
>Hi everybody!
>
>I would like to posit a question regarding content filtering. We have had
>several employees use IRC, ICQ, etc. as well as rather disgusting porno-type
>sites on company time. We'd like to prevent this.
>
>It changes the office environment severly and disrupts productivity when
>management is put in a position of cop/father and has to walk around
>snooping over what one would expect to be "professional" shoulders checking
>out what's on their terminal. The bottom-line is we'd like to trust people,
>but sadly, we can't. Some commentary on corporate operations, huh. I'm
>sure we're not the only site where this has occurred nor continues to occur.
>A friend of mine told me that this is "a harbinger of a much more serious
>problem", but he can't find office staff that don't have a tendency to
>behave like this either! Seems like a sign of the times, I guess.
>
>We've even gone so far as to consider DOS-based email and then deny people
>the use of Mozilla, MS's Outlook Express, Netscrape, etc. We turned
>thumbs-down on that, as once they get email, they can download any browser
>they want, thanks to sites like "netbutler", etc.
>
>What I'm asking is - does anyone have any experience with content filtering
>software? I've seen these "screening" programs, and wonder what kind of
>effectiveness they produce. Are they a bear to maintain? Are any sites
>victims of "false-positive" testing (i.e., screened when they shouldn't have
>been)? How many sites, percentage-wise, continue to slip through?
>
>Is there something better, like softs that run on firewalls? The problem
>with most of these screening programs is that they install on a user's PC,
>which would imply, to me, that they could be disabled. Installing a
>filtering mechanism on a firewall that's locked up with a password only a
>handful of people know would seem to be more "indefeatable".
>
>I'd really appreciate any experience anyone had; we're growing, and the
>problem is getting worse!
>
>TIA,
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