Andrew
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I'm after some web filtering software i can install on an SBS2003 box. What have people used in the past?
Cannot be filtered on the router itself 
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John
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Websense.
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Dom
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Sonicwall for content filtering. Although if you have a spare box (doesn't need to be powerful) you could run something like IPCop/Smoothwall etc that does web/content filtering.
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Andrew
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Really just want to block Face Book on a customer site 
We don't know much about Cisco routers so putting in a SonicWall in out the question as we would need to forward all the open ports to the SonicWall.
I'm thinking we have 2 options here, rip out the Cisco as it doesn't do what we want anyway and replace with a Netgear or DrayTek that we know does content filtering or change the host file on all the machines.
Really don't want to be messing with Proxy Servers..
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Bart
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Andy, we use WFilter at work, its really easy to use/setup, really easy maintain and very cheap.
We have it installed on our sbs 2003 box.
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Voyto
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Use OpenDNS....free and simple? 
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willay
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if you just want to block facebook, find the IP ranges they use and just null route it.
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Andrew
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
if you just want to block facebook, find the IP ranges they use and just null route it.
Sound 
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Andrew
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quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
Use OpenDNS....free and simple?
Can i block website using this service? Currently they are pointed to Zen servers
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Voyto
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quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
Use OpenDNS....free and simple?
Can i block website using this service? Currently they are pointed to Zen servers
yes you can. you can block specific domains or select pre-set categories.
If you point your network at OpenDNS, it will also give you stats on which domains are being requested by your staff.
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Andrew
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Niceone Voyto
Will have a look at this over the weekend.
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Bart
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^^ the only downside is your top visited domains all tend to be common adverts displayed on webpages. its quite difficult to drill down and find actual domains visited.
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