Re: [squid-users] Proteected settings in Windows

13-Mar-02 at 16:32, Mark Lucas (mark@mlucas.net) wrote :
> Sorry for a slightly off topic questions but does anyone know a way of
> password protecting internet connection settings in Win98 and Win2K? I would
> like to be able to stop my users from changing them to bypass squid.
>

Use IEAK to create a browser with fixed settings which you then distribute. I
think they even allow you to create a single disk "branding" version which
will lock down these settings.

There may be third party software to lock this down too.

Failing that, a common solution is to block port 80 for all machines except
Squid.

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