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Posted by GRL on December 24, 2004, 2:11 am
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Is there a personal firewall which includes content filtering capabilities,
that is being able to set specific words the firewall can act on?
Thanks.
Giovanni
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Posted by TheHeid on December 24, 2004, 5:00 am
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I assume you are wanting to block adult content(?)
F-secure Internet Security 2005 has a "Parental Control" facility which
has a block adult content selection. I do not know how it determines
what is an adult site. I turned the adult filter on it did a good job.
You can download the full program and give it a 30 day trial. You can
also specifically block whole sites or part sites but as there are
18,275,935,659 sites offering "adult" content that would take some
doing.
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Posted by Charles Newman on December 24, 2004, 2:42 pm
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> Is there a personal firewall which includes content filtering
capabilities,
> that is being able to set specific words the firewall can act on?
> Thanks.
> Giovanni
>
>
Only if you want to pay exorbitant amounts. The
best value would be to get an ICS box, and then
pay $799 per year to use CyBlock. Cyblock acts
as a filtering proxy. Just set up an ICS box, put
Tiny Personal Firewall on it, and CyBlock, then
restrict all Web access through your CyBlock
proxy. That is the only real way you can do it.
CyBlock runs on Windows 2000, XP, 2003,
and Longhorn.
Basically, you need to set up a LAN, and
filter it with CyBlock. A word of warning though,
CyBlock might not work with a cable modem,
if you are using Comcast. I downloaded the trial
edition, and had to stop using it. I figured out that
it was screwing up my cable modem. I was losing
sync, and having all kinds of problems. It took
a while to figure out what the problem was, but
when I got rid of CyBlock, and reinstalled Windows
the problems ceased. If you are using a internet service
other than Comcast high-speed Internet, you might want
to give CyBlock's $799 per year service a try. Before
you download CyBlock you will need:
Another PC to act as an ICS Box
second NIC card
A hub and necessary cables
Tiny Personal Firewall (to restrict Web access to your proxy)
Cyblock is very good at blocking inappropriate
content, and can block content in 67 categories,
plus 12 more that you can define yourself, for a total
of 79 categories. With the growing popularity of
home and small business networks (which is what
CyBlock is designed for), they will corner the market
on network filtering.
A hardware appliance cannot filter as well as
Cyblock installed on an ICS box alongside Tiny
Personal Firewall. There NO hardware appliance
on the market that can do what CyBlock does, as
far as Web filtering goes.
CyBlock has all kinds of reporting options that
you would NEVER get from a hardware device.
As for our Australian poster, and his news reporter
girlfriends who chat with him from work, if I were
running any of those computer networks, I would have
an ICS box, equipped with CyBlock and Tiny Personal
Firewall, controlling the network, and what that
reporter's online activities would stick out like a sore
thumb in the reports.
CyBlock has reporting features that hardware
firewalls cannot even come NEAR. With CyBlock,
you can find out which users and/or stations on the
network are using more bandwidth. With CyBlock,
I would know something was up, when I saw that
reporter using more Web bandwidth than other
people. If the admnins at those TV stations were
using an ICS box with CyBlock and Tiny Personal
Firewall, those reporters would have been caught,
and probably fired, long before now.
CyBlock can drill down to an individual user's
activities. Try THAT with your hardware appliances.
The reporting capabilites of CyBlock are just
incredible. If you are using a service other than Comcast,
I highly recommend an network using an ICS Box,
with CyBlock and Tiny Personall Firewall, to filter
on your network.
$799 per year allows up to 10 machines at one time to
hook to your proxy, which will more than cover
virtually any home network out there, I dont think
there are any home networks yet, that has more
than 10 machines on it. One guy mentioned he pays
$975 a year for filtering through a hardware
firewall. He is paying too much for his service, and
is probably not getting filtering as good as what an
ICS box, equipeed with CyBlock and Tiny Personal
Firewall can do.
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Posted by Robert on December 27, 2004, 11:52 am
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> Is there a personal firewall which includes content filtering capabilities,
> that is being able to set specific words the firewall can act on?
> Thanks.
> Giovanni
I have NIS 2005 installed on our families XP box and it is doing it's job
very well at this.
--
Regards
Robert
Smile... it increases your face value!
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Posted by SGD on December 27, 2004, 11:10 pm
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the content through itself. We use Proxomitron (no longer being supported)
which allows one to write their own rules as to what and how to filter, pass
or block.
> Is there a personal firewall which includes content filtering
capabilities,
> that is being able to set specific words the firewall can act on?
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