Porn filtering

[Josh_B]

Good day everyone,

I have been charged with setting up a porn filtering scheme for a non-profit. Normally, I love porn, so not only is this against my lack of moral standards -but- I have to try and do this on the cheap.

My preference would be to setup an IPCop box, and allow that to do gateway / dns / dhcp duties. Additionally, there is an add-on module that provides porn filtering, but I don't know how effective it is. (Dan's Guardian.)

I also checked out commercial solutions such as SurfControl, but would like to minimize costs. Some other products I have researched are NetNanny (client side only), and Cyberpatrol. I would prefer not to have recurring costs for updates.

Would you guys please post your comments and suggestions at your leisure?

Many thanks.

 

[KaosDG]

We're using IPCop with Advproxy / URLFilter and some blacklists.

It's working pretty well, and anything that gets past we can add to a custom blacklist.

It has to be set as a browser proxy (based on squid).

Also, we've installed the p2pblock add-on to block p2p/bittorrent etc.

 

[TrueBuckeye]

Well, I'm fairly far across the spectrum from you. I'm responsible for doing the monitoring/filtering for a corporate network of 1100 users. We used SurfControl but found it weak and buggy. We have recently moved to Websense (about a year on it now) and I'm very happy with it. We can do quotas, time-based filtering, or protocol level filtering, not just site/domain based.

But yeah, it is very expensive to the tune of about $25k/year for our number of users and the premium packs we have purchased.

 

[Josh_B]

Well, I'm fairly far across the spectrum from you. I'm responsible for doing the monitoring/filtering for a corporate network of 1100 users. We used SurfControl but found it weak and buggy. We have recently moved to Websense (about a year on it now) and I'm very happy with it. We can do quotas, time-based filtering, or protocol level filtering, not just site/domain based.

But yeah, it is very expensive to the tune of about $25k/year for our number of users and the premium packs we have purchased.

Thank you for your comments.

I think for a network of <100 users, that would be overkill, though.

 

[MorfiusX]

We're using IPCop with Advproxy / URLFilter and some blacklists.

It's working pretty well, and anything that gets past we can add to a custom blacklist.

It has to be set as a browser proxy (based on squid).

Also, we've installed the p2pblock add-on to block p2p/bittorrent etc.

I second this suggestion.

 

[Josh_B]

I second this suggestion.

Given my requirements, I think I can confidently propose this solution.

Actually, (my little brothers will hate me for this), I can test this solution at my mother's place. I recently installed an IPCop box there!