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I'm looking for some information regarding company policies regarding napster, gnutella, etc....
Does any company out there that has created such a policy and what you have done to prevent this on your networks...

Any information would be great..

thanks

Scott Weber
sweber@somecompany.net

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by gtork

It sounds like you are looking for a solution to prevent users from browsing unwanted internet sites. We do have policies in place that prohibit the use of the internet for non-business use. However, written policies won't always stop an end user. To combat this, we use a program called Little Brother. With this program, we are able to setup profiles and access rights so that users can't get to certain sites. One example that we had a problem on was users connecting to radio sites to listen to the radio. This was taking up a lot of bandwidth. Another category that is obvious is pornography. You can also set it up so that certain users can only access specific URLs.

Hope this helps,
Greg

by jsweber

Greg, Could you possibly e-mail me so we can chat a little bit about this..
thanks.. sweber@onvia.com

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