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by barry pie

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I am a Network Manager at a Secondary school. We have a 2000 server and 98SE clients. Our internet access is routed through the councils filters to block out the majority of porn sites. However there are non-porn sites that would not normally be filtered out that still have no place in a school (mobile ring tones, games, chat etc..). We use Winsuite V.2.20 from NDI technologies to implement security on the desktops. An earlier version came with 'Surf Manager' which allowed us to keep trackof websites visited by our 1500 users and locally block websites deemed unsuitable. Our latest version of Winsuite no longer has this application so we are no longer able to control pupils web access as we would like. Do you know of any suitable software which could facilitate our needs? Thanks in advance for your help.

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by 2nickles

an all-in-one solution would be Websense, it installs on your server and blocks websites based on content. It already has filters built in for pornography, chats, gambling, job searching and you can customize your own filters. It comes with a 30 day trail. The drawback is the price, it was around $3000 for the enterprize addition, but there might be special pricing for educators.

the website:
http://www.websense.com/

by ilyas.ahmed

SurfControl is another software but u can only use it if you are using Microsoft ISA server.
It has builtin categories like sexually explicit websites, gambling, sex educaiton etc.There are other featuers like user level monitoring, site monitoring. U can also generate different usefull reports.

by mike o

We use SonicWall Pro (www.sonicwall.com) at our high school. It ran us about $1000. It's a firewall and filter rolled into one appliance and it can do NAT, VPN, and a few other things.

The filter is very flexible in that you can subscribe to SonicWall's list as well as add your own customized keywords and domains. It will also block ActiveX, Java, Cookies, and such if you so desire.

Their support is less than wonderful, but the one time I needed support was an unusual situation.

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