Web Content Filter

Hey everyone, got directive from management to deploy some sort of web content filtering to two small clients. End goal is to keep people off social networking, spyware laden sites and ****s.

They want $0 (of course) and asked me to look into Squid. I did some looking around and it seem all it does it caching.

Is there a package I am missing or something? Best I can tell it doesn't do what they want me to do with it.

thanks in advance,

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L0gicB0mb508

Linux.com :: Using squidGuard for content filtering

I think that should get you started in the right direction with Squid/SquidGuard. I think pfSense and Untangle can also be set up for content filtering as well. They are both free.99 as well.

Daniel333

Good info thanks. Testing a VM tonight and sharing my findings Friday.

arwes

Look at untangle. I'm thinking of testing that out here, as I think I've got a few remote users who are using our terminal servers to get past their company's content filtering. We block social networking stuff, but that's about it.

Nuwin

arwes wrote: »

Look at untangle. I'm thinking of testing that out here, as I think I've got a few remote users who are using our terminal servers to get past their company's content filtering. We block social networking stuff, but that's about it.

+1

I've used Untangle in a few places. It does fairly well. OpenDNS is another option. Or maybe a combination of the two.

dynamik

Untangle.

Chivalry1

+4 Untangle is great.

Agent6376

Nuwin wrote: »

OpenDNS is another option.

+1

OpenDNS is very easy to use and it does a great job.

bwcarty

I'll throw out another vote for OpenDNS.

msteinhilber

One more vote for Untangle. Have ~30 of them in the field and they do a fine job.

Silentsoul

untangle or dans guardian. Have not looked at either lately but i think they are both still current.