I have just gotten a new SquidNT proxy up and running, and I would like to start by saying thank you to all the people that have both put in time writing Squid, and the people who worked on the port to Windows.
I have a couple of questions that hopefully can be answered by some of the more seasoned users. First I would like to block some of the more common spyware/adware sites so our users don't accidently install any of that type of software. I have found several sites that have lists of websites, unfortunately these lists seem to be very broad in what gets listed. I was wondering if anyone knows of a list that only lists the spyware-type of sites, preferably one that is fairly regularly maintained. Second, my employers would like to be able to get per user statics on their web usage. I would like to implement a web-based solution for them to allow them easy access to the information whenever it is needed. I have looked at webalizer, and it does some of what I would like to do, however I have not found a way to generate the per user statistics. Of coarse, by statistics I'm not talking about just numbers. Among the things that would like to be reported, would be the top sites that each user visits. I have also looked at using SLUG, which as far as I can tell from looking at the documentation will do the per user statistics, however I was wondering if anyone has been able to get it working in a Windows-based setup. I personally do not have any problems using Linux, however I am worried about keeping the access.log files syncronized between a Linux server (to host the reporting) and the Windows Squid Proxy. If SLUG woud not work in my setup, could anyone recommend a program that does do per user statistics I would appreciate it. Tim Donahue