We have Altavista proxy servers for connections to the web. Any other connection going outbound will not work. Since Altavista does not support the SOCKS proxy, users behind these proxy servers cannot access morpheus or kazaa, as they want to use a SOCKS proxy. Just my two cents.
-Adam -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of N Cleaver Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 14:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to Block Morpheus, Napster, etc. Here's what I have been told about these programs: Users looking for a particular song or whatever will connect with Morpheus or the like and make a specific request. Then Morpheus searches it's database for the location of connected users who have the requested song, returns that information to the requester, who then can connect to one of the locations and download the song. Also, I have been told that, once one of these programs have been installed, that computer automatically becomes part of that file sharing database. THIS MAY NOT BE CORRECT, I'm just beginning to look into the problem We know that our networks are being hit hard by this type traffic. Just using an ACL or content filter to block an IP address or URLs doesn't seen to be the answer. (My preliminary search for technical information about how these programs work, ports used, etc. has turned up dry, but I'm still looking.) Paula Evans wrote: > Certain firewalls and content filters can block certain sites if it is for a > business. SonicWALL and other firewalls have built in content filters that > can keep people out of certain sites. Check out http://www.sonicWALL.com > and look at the product demo. If you need help or have questions about this > let me know. > > For personal use you can go into each desktop and go to the tools, internet > options, content advisor and enable it to block certain sites - type in the > site names and then add a password. This isn't the most "high-tech" way and > there are easy ways around it if you know what you are doing but in some > cases it works and doesn't cost a cent if you have Windows 98 and up. > > Let me know if you have any other questions. > > Thanks - > > Paula > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of N Cleaver > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 3:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to Block Morpheus, Napster, etc. > > Can anyone tell me how to block this kind of traffic on our network, or > where to go for information. Many thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > Firewalls mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
