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Content Filter for an Internet Café

  • 13-05-2005 11:00am
    #1
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm looking for a decent content filter for the internet café I run.

    We had a few incidents with people accessing porn recently.... and eh... recording it on their video phone. It's a public building so this poses alot of problems.

    So I was just wondering if anyone knows of a good content filter that works, and doesn't block sites like Google like the one I tried this morning.

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    dansgardian is a good one, linux based though.

    depending on your setup, you could use clarkconnect as your proxy if you can get it to co-exist with your Cafe software. Clarkconnect has dansguardian built in along with a rake of other goodies


  • #3
    Gilgamesh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Gilgamesh


    symantec web security would be such a product, works quite well and is easy enough to manage.
    will have to purchase though, not sure if they have a trial version of it


  • #4
    formatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 794 ✭✭✭formatman


    Sonic wall or barracuda products , contact Commtech in Dublin


  • #5
    zap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭zap


    the best way would prob be to use a proxy and generally you can set the level you want i.e. some businesses have a proxy set up to block sports sites travel sites etc.


  • #6
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    zap wrote:
    the best way would prob be to use a proxy and generally you can set the level you want i.e. some businesses have a proxy set up to block sports sites travel sites etc.

    Theres a hundred or so proxies available.. not all have content filtering and its in no way a requirement for a proxy.

    I'd go with squid and dansguardian personally.. although as souper said it depends on your current setup (if iptables can be installed on your gateway box then even better).


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