Questions tagged [webfilter]
A program or device that filters web content and pages.
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Allow non-standard ports through Smoothwall filter
We have a Smoothwall appliance here which is used for web filtering on our school network. We also have Ubiquiti Unifi access points with an offsite controller. In order to manage the controller, we ...
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Whitelisting Google Recaptcha
Barracuda Web Filter blocking the Google Recaptcha on one of our vendors sites.
We have tested with an unfiltered user to verify that it's the webfilter blocking
Searched for what to whitelist, the ...
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Openwrt Dansguardian - Performance and speed suggestions
I have a setup at home as follow:
DHCP clients -----> (wifi)(nat) Openwrt -----> (eth)Main Router
DHCP clients get ip from 192.168.42.0/24 subnet.
The device I'm using is TPlink MR3020 with ...
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Is there a way to block webmail access but still have outlook windows client work with our business office365 account?
We have just migrated our corporate email to office365.
In order to give access to our outlook exchange servers it was necessary for us to open up our web filtering, allowing a number of additional ...
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Block https by mac address. Squid or iptables
I want to block web access (http and https) to certain mac addresses. I was able to do this for http using squid but it still lets https sites through.
acl denylist arp "/etc/squid/mac-deny-list.lst
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Auto black list hackers from Apache server that hit website too fast
I notice some hackers jumping from website to website iterating all possible IP addresses and hitting them so fast and hard with their attack URLs to get some flaws. I am more interested in how to ...
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Setting up filtering for a subnet behind a corporate proxy
My (all Windows) office is hooked into a corporate LAN in a remote city. We're accessing the Internet via the corporate proxy server on their end.
For political reasons, there is not and will not be ...
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Certain URLs (and some content) not being blocked by DansGuardian
In attempting to configure DansGuardian I've had difficulty blocking certain search sites, though it also differs between browsers.
I'm using the word "twerk" for testing as there's no instance of it ...
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Blocking all websites with exception list in Windows workgroup
How can I block all websites to certain users on a workgroup workstation except a specified list of sites running Windows 7 premium?
If possible I'd like the exception list to use wildcards like:
*....
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How can I disable Google SSL Search so that the DansGuardian web filter will work properly?
I'm running the DansGuardian web filter (2.10.1.1) and the Squid web proxy (2.7.STABLE9) on Debian Linux "Wheezy" 7.1.
DansGuardian doesn't filter Google web-search or image-search queries ...
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server localhost to get access to /admin/* pages and block all others
Requirements:
every one in the local network can access all pages except /admin pages.
only localhost should have access to the /admin pages.
how to write webfilter for tomcat 6 or other ...
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BYOD and Google SSL
I run a school network with a BYOD program in place. I have a linux proxy (squid) with content filtering by Mind (fork of dansguardian). Everything works fine over HTTP, the problem is of corse when ...
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Fortigate administrative overrides - how to include all subdomains?
I need a nudge in the right direction with this:
Situation:
I got Fortigate device with FortiOS4.0 with enabled FortiGuard web filter. I block a category, let's say "freeware download" (example).
Now,...
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Porn site detection [closed]
We use Open DNS + Norton DNS to detect if a website is porn / phishing website.
However we found a lot of non-English websites that can not be detected from Open/Norton DNS. Those are mostly Thai ...
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How to Block all websites except one website in a LAN?
How to Block all websites except one website in a LAN of Ubuntu 11.10 Clients ?
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Web Filter For Multiple Networks [closed]
I have been using a Barracuda web filter 310 in our network and I have just had enough of it. It does not support trunking and we have several networks that have users that need to be web filtered. (I ...
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Force to use specific DNS provider at network
OpenDNS offers a quite simple way for internet filtering by categories. Of course who could get the correct IP address can easily bypass the filter but it would be enough for my expectations.
The ...
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Innovation: Single sign on integrated with web filter? [closed]
This one is a doozy, so be forewarned! Also please let me know if this isn't on the correct site.
What I would like to implement in the form of a server appliance is a single sign on solution that ...
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Suggestions for Method of access restriction in organization
I want to stop employes of using social media and other sites i might think i dont want them to visit, yet there are some times we need to use it so i need some flexible customizable solution.
I ...
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Cisco reputation filters mis-identified site as malware or “misconfigured DNS”
A client came back to me this morning saying one of their clients couldn't access the website because their security service was identifying it as a threat. I searched for the particular error, but ...
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php proxy problem
i used php web proxy for limit web access in a office, clients have not internet access, so they use this php web proxy to view web page.
the php proxy is running on a computer that have access to ...
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Block certain parts of Facebook at work
I would like to be able to block work staff from accessing their personal facebook accounts BUT would like them to be able to retain the ability to access our own company facebook page. Is this ...
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How to change the URL category of a website, so it's not filtered
This may be out of my control, but currently, when I try to access my website from work, I get this page:
Access Denied
Your system policy has denied access to the requested URL.
Monitoring of Your ...
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Allow Facebook access only in specific hours of the day with squid
I've been able to install squid on my Ubuntu Server with basic authentication and everything works perfectly.
Recently the boss asked to block facebook access and I did it with no problems.
Now it ...
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Squidguard (or equivalent) for IPv6
We have recently implemented (native) IPv6 in our network. Everything is working very well so far, but our IPv4 network passes all HTTP traffic through Squid (2.7.STABLE6 on Ubuntu Server) + ...
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How do I unblock certain parts of Youtube for the staff?
Youtube is a good tool for finding tutorial videos but it's bad for my network. But the staff sometimes need to watch some tutorial videos on Youtube to help them do their work. How do I unblock ...
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Looking for opinions on Virtual Web Appliances
My client is looking for some web filtering devices and I'm looking for some recommendations for virtual appliances. Anyone got any thoughts?
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What is a common corporate internet gateway / proxy / filtering setup?
What are some "typical" internet gateway setups for corporate firms of say 500-5000 users? e.g.
Firewall - some hardware device?
Web Proxy - squid or other proxy software / device?
Content Filtering ...
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Block websites that provide games [closed]
I have Windows Server 2008 and I want to block ALL websites that provide games. Can I do this using DNS?
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Restricting Internet access for Windows users using Ubuntu Server + Webmin [closed]
I want to restrict the Internet usage for a couple of Windows users on a network. The Server is a Ubuntu 10.04 Server running Webmin - all Windows users are setup as users on the Ubuntu server to ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2: Internet access filtering related issues
My current Windows Workplace Network need some users to have restricted access to the internet and some users to have full access to the internet.
So I used a OPENDNS as it turned out to be the most ...
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Proxy to restrict access to certain websites
I'm looking for a solution that allows our office server to function as a proxy that blocks access to certain websites for certain LAN ip's.
The solution i'm looking for has to meet these ...
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Web filtering (Proxy or DNS) with option for users to ignore the block
We are struggling with our users visiting infected or "attack" sites and Phising in general. Most of our machines are protected by an Enterprise anti virus and monitoring solution (McAffe ePO) and we ...
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Web Content Filtering
I have recently bought a Cisco ASA 5505 for my small business, I was initially led to believe this device could do some limited website filtering that we would need. (one list of unrestricted, and a ...
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Setting up dansguardian after squid
i have setup squid which is running as a transparent proxy where http requests are sent through 176.16.1.197:8000
i would like to setup dansguardian with the above configuration of squid but i just ...
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What free and efficient web/trafic filtering options are good for this situation?
The Story (you can skip this if you like)
So my girlfriend got a job as pedagog at a small boarding home (around 40 kids, age 10 to 18), 3 weeks ago. I went there once and surfed the web from a ...
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Log into GMail without SSL
Since the 443 ports for HTTPS is filtered in Iran, is there any alternative method of logging into GMail which does not require the use of this port?
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Sidewinder Firewall Replacement/Alternative
We own a Sidewinder G2 110D (out-of-stock) and love it. The product was reasonably priced, support was great, and the device was rock-solid. Since McAffee bought out SecureComputing, they have ...
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Open Source Filtering of HTTPS Traffic
We use to have a filtering/proxy setup that was configured so that about 500 users were routed through a Unix-based system running SQUID with SquidGuard to block questionable content and log what ...
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Web Filtering - Only Allow [closed]
I'm looking for a way to filter internet access (homes setting, not business) by means of an 'only allow' access list. In other words, you would have to populate the list with what sites you choose to ...
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How to Approach Web Filtration?
My company recently implemented a content filtration system (Websense) which ranges anywhere from mildly irritating to enraging depending on what useful website it's blocking and what program I have ...
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Web Content Filtering Recommendations [closed]
We have a corporate MPLS network hosted by a large ISP. Each site has it's own dedicated path to the Internet, so there is no single point of Internet access to place a filtering appliance. We've ...
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blocking bad websites in ISP level [closed]
how do you approach blocking bad websites such as malicious websites, porn and etc in ISP Level.
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Best practices to block social sites
In our company we have around 100 workstations with Internet access, and the day-to-day situation is getting worse and worse from the perspective of using
Internet access for the purpose of doing ...
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Walkthrough for setting up Proxy Server using Squid on Windows
Some of the employees are using the internet for non-work related activity (accessing naughty websites, online shopping, MySpace etc.. etc.. after business hours). I would like to stop internet abuse ...
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Gravatar.com showing up in webfilter
We have recently rolled out a web content filter. I have noticed on many users www.gravatar.com even though these users are not going to this site, nor have any program loaded that would connect to ...
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When/why to use a web proxy/gateway?
Right now we have about a 25-30 PC network, connected to the internet with a run-of-the-mill SonicWall Firewall/Router device. There isn't much filtering / blocking other than outgoing SMTP (for ...
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How do you test your porn filter
For testing antivirus we have EICAR, for SPAM, we have GTUBE.
Is there a standard site that is or should be included in blacklists that you can use for testing instead of going to your favorite porn ...
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Web filter device for a small/medium business?
We have ~200 users and are currently using Blue Coat to filter web content. Basically we just block things like porn and streaming media. Our contract is coming up and the device is End Of Life, so we ...
