Re: [squid-users] ditch squidguard and urlblacklist.com

try http://www.urldb.com.br
maybe we can help each other!
thanks

Luiz Gustavo F. dos Santos .......................................... Tel.:
(11) 2164-1000 / (51) 3061-9455 Fax.: (11) 2161-1005
gustavo.rs@america-net.com.br http://www.america-net.com.br
----- Original Message -----
From: "K K" <kkadow@gmail.com>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] ditch squidguard and urlblacklist.com

> On 1/3/07, dhottinger@harrisonburg.k12.va.us
> <dhottinger@harrisonburg.k12.va.us> wrote:
>> Quoting Nick Duda <nduda@VistaPrint.com>:
>> > I've been fighting this fight for far to long without resolution. I've
>> > emailed the list at times with no resolution to my problem. I'm now
>> > faced with ditching Squid and SquidGuard as our corporate content
>> > filtering product because it can not do what we need.
>
> Ditch Squidguard, and definitely ditch urlblacklist.com.
>
> Squid itself is a fine product, and works quite well as a proxy, but
> isn't built to do large-scale web filtering, instead it has hooks for
> third-party censorware.
>
>
>> You can do something similiar with SecureComputings Smartfilter. It
>> will tie into Active Directory.
>
> I second this recommendation.
>
> We just completed a 3-month evaluation of SmartFilter, and only
> decided against purchasing licenses because we (mostly) trust
> employees, and are loath to trust some outside entity to make
> subjective judgements about good/bad sites.
>
> SmartFilter can be linked into Squid on a handful of different
> operating systems, and while the URL database is not perfect (no URL
> database is perfect), it is infinitely better than urlblacklist.com.
>
> Kevin
>
> (P.S. I first submitted to urlblacklist a request to have one domain
> removed from the 'porn' catagory in 2004. Two years and several
> resubmissions later, the domain is *still* listed incorrectly by
> urlblacklist.)
>
> (P.P.S. I've checked all the commercial filtering services and every
> other database has the domain listed in the correct categories. And
> this isn't some podunk personal domain, it's a three-letter .com
> domain receiving millions of hits each day.)
>
Received on Wed Jan 03 2007 - 12:23:04 MST