[squeezin]

Hi, i currently have a friend using K9 web protection on her home computer for filtering her kids surfing.

But i was wondering if anyone has any other suggestions?

K9 is nice because its free, but the reports are rather vague, and overall the setup and options are limited.

She is looking for something that might be able to email her daily / weekly logs of sorts.
And a few other misc. options i dont remember off the top of my head.

Free is ideal, but right now im just looking for any suggestions...$$ or not.
I'm looked for about 30 min and theres so many choices out there i figure id throw the question here at TSG to get some first hand experience suggestions before i go bashing my head it.

Thanks for reading.
Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[1002richards]

Hi,
Well written independent reviews of freeware progs of that type here:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...tal-Filter.htm

Hope it's of use?

Richard

[squeezin]

Thanks, but not much on the web filtering.

Only suggests opendns, and K9

But it did make me take another look at opendns...its been years since i looked at them.
gonna check them out for myself

[Sachinpurohit]

squeezin,

You should take a look at SafeSquid - Content Filtering Internet Proxy.
Although it is a commercial product, a full-featured free edition is offered for both Linux & Windows.

You can use multiple methods to control and secure a user.
A few features that might make sense to you are -

• Use the open source Clam Anti Virus with SafeSquid to scan all in-coming content content for virus, spy-ware, phishing, etc.
• Use the free-for-home-users Website Blacklist database from shallalist.de, to allow / block access to websites based on the category that they belong to, like - porn, adult, games, social-networking, etc.
• Use Keyword Filter to block access to web pages that are pornographic in nature. This does not block access to news, articles, discussions on porn, or medical websites.
• Use PicBlock (free) to block access to porn images.
• Use open source Log Analyzers like Sarg to generate detailed usage reports. It also has an option of emailing reports.

Apart from the above, there are many other filtering options available, like Cookie filtering, Mime filtering, Header filtering, etc. but they are required more by corporate users than home users.

Although SafeSquid is a very powerful content filtering software, let me warn you that it might require some learning curve initially. But there is a lot of help available, like -

• SafeSquid HowTos
• Documentation & Training Videos - Here
• Finally, SafeSquid Forum

Of course, you can also let me know if you require any assistance.

Best Regards.
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Sachin Purohit
sachinpurohit@gmail.com
http://www.safesquid.com/

[squeezin]

Ehhh...dont really care for ad's...but since it's relevent i suppose ill load up vmware and give the software a try one of these days.

I have this wierd issue with opendns.
I remember this from before also...anything that deals with google is extremely slow.
homepage, firefox google search bar, anything.
Switch it back to obtain DNS address automatically (from comcast) and everything is fine...
I dunno

Ill post back on the results of safe squid.

Thanks

[srhoades]

We use OpenDNS for our business customers. Works well and can't complain since it is free.

[squeezin]

im thinking the google / opendns issue im having might have something to do with my custom hosts file....ill post back if i figure that one out.