Web Filtering

[Jim Bonnet]

Wil McGilvery wrote:
> 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.

Wil-

Well after reading through the site.. it *looks* like it will do what 
you want.. I assume these
are windoze boxes you are trying to secure?

If so, and Im sorry Im fuzzy on the details, there is some software that 
scans the system on bootup, and upon shutting it down, restores said 
machine to is bootup state. so any software added or changes made, like 
switching the background image.. are taken away on shutdown.The thing is 
password protected so users cant just remove it.. I suppose you could 
delete it or something though. These were NT boxes too IIRC. I can't for 
the life of me remember what its called though. When I was going through 
my cisco cert at the local junior college they had it installed. I'll 
see if I can't find the name of it.. but that could be a good option also.

hth-
Jim

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