RE: Content Filtering

[David Ishmael]

Richard,   Are you looking for a stand-alone application or a combination of firewall/content filter?  We ran a PIX firewall for a firewall and used (I think it was called) WebTrends.  The speed was in how it worked.  The firewall would get a packet destined for bad-site.com and would send the packet on as well as a packet to WebTrends asking for the acceptance policy.  By the time the response came back from bad-site.com it had already gotten a response from WebTrends to either permit or deny responses from that site.  If it was allowed the response passed through the firewall, if not the user was sent a custom URL that said that the site was restricted.  Highly configurable and fast...   I'm sure there are ton's of good stand-alone solutions out there...good luck!  ;) David Ishmael, CCNA, IVCP Senior Network Management Engineer Windward Consulting Group, Inc. Phone: (703) 283-7564 Pager: (888) 910-7094 eFax: (425) 969-4707 Fax: (703) 351-9428 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Ginski Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Content Filtering Hello Everyone,   Sorry in advance for being slightly off topic. We are an organization of approximately 4000 users. I have been asked to find a technology which can prevent users from browsing bad sites. I am somewhat familiar with content filtering products. However, my biggest fear is latency. Can anyone recommend who I should check out regarding content filtering products?   PS: If it also prevented the execution of harmful (only harmful) JAVA based and Active X based code..it would be a plus.