I use Guidescope (the next generation of Junkbuster), www.guidescope.com, as an ad filter on my home network and it works really well. You can set it up on one computer and use it as a remote proxy. But it is a proxy and you have to make sure it is either a transparent proxy or each browser uses it as its proxy.
I did try adding the squidguard blacklist to it, which is thousands of sites, and the internet started crawling. But I was running it on a Pentium I with 64 megs of memory, so your mileage might vary. Probably the better way still would be combining Squid with something else. Squidguard is pretty nice and they even have a prebuilt blacklist available: http://www.squidguard.org/ http://www.squidguard.org/blacklist/ I also tried Ad Zapper and it could be extended too to other things. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/adzap/index.html Anymore, my computer can't really handle squid and something else, so I just log everything and yell at the kids when I see something that isn't supposed to be in there. Kerry. James Willmore wrote: > Internet Junkbuster works well - and is open source. I use it on a home PC and have had no trouble from the software end. The tough part is setting up regular expressions to filter content. You could just use the straight "add all the URL's you want to filter" approach, but then you have to maintain a lot of URL's. > > Just my two cents. > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: James McGee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: March 5, 2002 5:51 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: URL Filtering >> >> >>Hi >> >>I have been given the task of reviewing a clients URL >>filtering setup, they currently use Websense, which is >>currently licensed to around 2000 users. >> >>They in fact have more like 20,000 users, so the default >>action on the licensing issue is to allow urls, once license >>theshold has been reached. Far from ideal. >> >>Anyway, Websense licensing costs, is proving to be an issue. >>I suppose all per-head type licenses would be. >> >>Therefore can anyone recommend a solution that permits a >>enterprise-wide type licensing solution, and is fairly >>competent, and reliable at its job? >> >>I am willing to look at any solution as long as it is >>scalable, reliable, easy to maintain, and cost efficient. >> >>Thanks in advance for your suggestions. >>JM __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
