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Five content filters suitable for both home and business

Do you filter content and access in your organization or at home? What tools do you use?

Using OpenDNS on my home router - don't need to worry about individual devices that way.

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Set up a client with OpenDNS since she wouldn't use other options to keep sons from accessing bad content. Happy with ease of setup and strength of filtering. Very helpful.

I use OpenDNS at home, and it does seem to block a bunch of stuff, but it really can't block many things because of the way it works - as a DNS blocker. Either you block all of Youtube or you let all of it through. Google image search is handy so you let that through, yet it can also return many thumbnails you might rather block. My son also managed to find a number of websites that it should have been blocking completely but wasn't! Finally, it is pretty simple to circumvent if a user has access to change their DNS settings (which they may well have on a mobile device, etc.).

However, it is very simple to set up, and as I have DHCP on the router set to point clients to OpenDNS's DNS servers it covers all devices on the network (mobile phones, Sony PSPs, Wii, etc.) automatically, rather than just the main desktop that you've installed it on: the way some other filtering programs work.

I used Salfeld Child Control for some time, when my kids were younger, and I liked it very much. Very powerfull and easy to use.

I've used IPCop, a Linux firewall distro, and DansGuardian for a while and it worked great. I install it off the modem and before the router or switch. This way ALL traffic regardless of whether it is from a laptop or a desktop, is filtered.

IPCop uses a web interface (internal only) to configure and includes a set of pages for configuring DansGuardian, making it very easy to use.

Setting it up this way, it doesn't rely on the individual operating systems to filter, easily bypassed with a LiveUSB or LiveCD, and will cover people bringing in their own devices.

Highly recommend it.

I am a little surprised that Qustodio is not in that list. Even though, a newbie, it is perhaps the best in the league of free apps. I've been using it for a few months now and can easily say that it even beats some of the features of paid programs. Lightweight, ease of use, comprehensive reporting features are just some of the goodies.

We have BrowseControl in our small-medium size office here in Toronto.

My Internet policy is simple - block all the websites on the Internet except for a handful of company related websites. At lunch, let my employees go on Facebook or whatever social networking websites they use for 1 hour.

BrowseControl accomplish this with no problem. It was also very easy to install.

use Simplewall
http://www.simplewallsoftware.com. perfect webuser interface for squid content filter.