content filter

[Tom Wolfe]

Squidguard is good but a little limited in terms of function.

For more function there is Dans Guardian, natuerlich

For a complete firewall/filter solution on a separate machine, there is 
Endian Community Edition (free, a tiny bit tricky to set up if you've 
never set up anything like this before, but good) http://endian.it. It has 
integrated, albeit somewhat limited, content filtering as well as 
anti-virus filtering. For a little more punch to your content filtering, 
you need to manually download a blacklist (see 
http://www.squidguard.org/blacklists.html), upload it to /root with scp, 
unpack it into /etc/dansguardian/blacklists ... be warned that the first 
time you activate the content filtering it will take a long time - as in 
an hour on a fairly quick machine - to initialize. You'll also need a lot 
of RAM, like 1 GB or more, to run at all. Automatic blacklist updates are 
only available on Endian's very expensive commercial products.

Regards,
Tom Wolfe


On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Uwe Geercken wrote:

>
> hello,
>
> thank you for all your help.
>
> ... but I have a final question for today ;-)
>
> what can you easily use and administer in terms of a content filter
> for web pages? any recommendation?
>
> I do not have so high security issues with my 10 and 11 years old kids
> and no one else will be able to use the system. but I do want to start
> using one.
>
> rgds,
>
> uwe
>
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