Web Filtering

[Wil McGilvery]

Yes I am trying to limit what people can download for three reasons.

1) We have a training room with internet access. I wish to allow browsing but not downloading. Because of the programs we are training people on; it is hard to limit their permissions on the pc.

2) I also have the usual people who insist on downloading screen savers and other programs that drive me nuts.

3) I have customers that won't allow internet access to their employees because of reason number 2.

DansGuardian is located at http://dansguardian.org/?page=introduction

In short it does say it can filter by mime type and file extension.

Any other comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Regards,
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Wil McGilvery
Manager, Digital Media

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Lynch Technologies Inc.
416-744-7191
1-888-622-3729
416-744-0406? FAX
www.lynchdigital.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Net Llama! [mailto:netllama at linux-sxs.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:50 AM
To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
Subject: Re: Web Filtering

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Wil McGilvery wrote:
> I am looking at preventing the downloading of executables, etc through the internet and I am investigating DansGuardian as a possible solution.
>
> Does anyone else have experience in this area?
>
> Thanks,
>

Can you clarify what you're trying to do here?  You want to stop desktop
users from downloading executables?  I've never heard of "DansGuardian"
however i kinda doubt that there is any perfect solution since an
executable is nothing more than a permissions bit on a file.

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