Thanks Tim, We can't afford LightSpeed at the moment too many needful projects sucking up the money. Anyway we have Aristotle that informs of Proxy use and I have set keywords as you mention. What your telling me is that the reality is that the issue has to be handled through board policy. The problem at Humboldt is that the High School principal will not enforce any network policy that causes her to have to discipline kids.
Humboldt has a long way to go before it becomes a properly managed district. Thanks for the input. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Buenz Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:29 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] MYSPACE and FACEBOOK LightSpeed does a pretty good job with blocking these proxies. Plus we can block keyword searches such as proxy, proxie, etc. We also have keywords like unblock, myspace, etc. in our suspicious search engine query report that gets sent to me daily. If students are trying to bypass or bypass the filtering their internet access is removed for a period beginning at 3 wks. Tim -- Tim Buenz Director of Technology Jefferson-Scranton CSD 204 West Madison St. Jefferson, IA 50129 http://www.jscsd.org (515)386-9256-office (515)386-3591-fax On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:57 AM, Richardson,Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hello All, > >Has anyone out there found a way to actually stop the use of MySpace >and Facebook on school networks? These HTTP Proxies appear to be >unstoppable. Is there some kind of "signature" for these two social >network services that I could use in the Intrusion Prevention Filter on >my firewall? HELP! > > > >Tony Richardson, >Technology Coordinator >Humboldt Community School District >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- [This E-mail Scanned For Viruses By Declude Virus Scanner] [This E-mail Scanned For Spam By Declude JunkMail] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ --------------------------------------------------------- --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
