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Control Web Content at the Gateway with our Free Web Filter

The free web filter (internet filter) enables administrators to enforce network usage policies and monitor user behavior. Powerful features such as Zero client installation and category block lists make it easier for administrators to:

  • Protect the network from malware on the web
  • Block time-wasting sites like MySpace
  • Conserve bandwidth by blocking audio/video downloads
  • Leverage community URL categorization

According to an industry study, at least 90 percent of large enterprises and 50 percent of small companies in the United States now monitor and filter their employees’ Internet access.

The primary reasons companies use Internet filtering and monitoring are to block inappropriate content (44%), control productivity (32%) and preserve network bandwidth (23%).

Now you can easily monitor, set and enforce your own web usage policy with our Web Filter application—without the hassles of outsourcing it. Whether you want to use our blocklists or set your own policies for hosts, domains and files types, you can block access to inappropriate sites. Reporting enables you to view a big picture of the kind of Web browsing behavior occurring on your network.

Key Features:

  • Open source & free under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
  • Pass, Block, and Logging options for all categories, such as gambling, webmail, shopping, and pornography
  • Categories update automatically
  • Add your own URLs and file types to block, log, or pass
  • No proxy settings required
  • Local database ensures fast web browsing
  • Set time and user based policies (e.g. allow shopping during lunch and outside business hours)
  • Reporting and event logs help monitor web browsing behavior

Web Filter Technical Specifications

Web Content Control blocks user access to specific Internet websites. The application leverages a commercial blacklist service, URLBlacklist.com, which organizes websites by 50+ categories or subjects. These categories include pornography, gambling, and job search, for example. Web Content Control enables you to choose among these categories to define web content control policies in your workplace. Also, Web Content Control uses custom URL blocklists for hosts, domains, and file types to block additional content.

If Web Content Control blocks web content that your company deems useful, you can use pass lists to override Web Content Control's blacklist.

What It Does

Transparently scans HTTP traffic in order to log or block specific activity

Controls
  • General blocking and logging of ALL HTTP traffic (Web ON/OFF)

  • Block Lists
    • Category block list: can be configured to pass, pass and log, or block and log by category)

    • URL block list: can be used add specific URLs to block and/or log)

    • MIME Type & File Extension block lists: can be customized to block specific MIMEs or extensions)

  • Pass Lists
    • URL pass list: can used to allow specific URLs to pass, even if they appear on the category list)

    • Client pass list: can be used to pass all HTTP traffic for specific IP addresses )