RE: [squid-users] Questions on URL filters

# Hi folks,
#
# we're looking for URL filters to use with squid. The
# requirements would
# at least be regularly (e.g. weekly) updated filter lists, the
# possibility to filter based on IP adresses, the ability to include
# additional URL's and IP addresses as well as the ability to exclude
# URL's/IP adresses from the list. A fairly easy administration (GUI?,
# browser front end?) of the filter lists would also be nice.
#
# So the question is which tools do you gurus use and what are your
# experiences and opinions about them?
#

We're using Smartfilter from Secure Computing.

It's a very expensive product (not as expensive as others though), and it
took lots of finetuning before we got it blocking what we want it to: in the
beginning we had lots of false positives, as the product is American, and
they seem to think that all German/Swiss/Austrian sites are "Personal", all
Chinese sites are either "Mature" or "Sex"-related. Complaining doesn't
help, since this product (and most others are) is filled with a webspider.

We're filtering on URL's, and the product does reverse lookups.

Peter

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Received on Sun Apr 13 2003 - 23:55:49 MDT