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I need to stop access to all potentially offfensive sites in the office, does
anyone know where I can get a list of sites which should be added to a
restrictions list within a business environment? IE porn, nasty video's,
extere religions, etc etc.

 

[Galen]

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I need to stop access to all potentially offfensive sites in the
office, does anyone know where I can get a list of sites which should
be added to a restrictions list within a business environment? IE
porn, nasty video's, extere religions, etc etc.

No such critter. What you can do is try something like this:

Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)

"You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his
trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

Sherlock Holmes

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

In Jordan Fey <[email protected]> had this to say:

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No such critter.

Not completely true, but you will need to buy a 3rd party filtering
service.

Websense Enterprise is one such example (a central network service,
nothing needs to be installed on the client computers):

http://www.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/WebsenseEnterprise/


A list of URL categories you can activate for blocking through
Websense is available here:

http://www.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/MasterDatabase/URLCategories.php

 

[Galen]

In Torgeir Bakken (MVP) <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Not completely true, but you will need to buy a 3rd party filtering
service.

Websense Enterprise is one such example (a central network service,
nothing needs to be installed on the client computers):

http://www.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/WebsenseEnterprise/


A list of URL categories you can activate for blocking through
Websense is available here:

http://www.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/MasterDatabase/URLCategories.php

Whilst such products are available and some of them good the OP specifically
stated "all" which I'm inlined to believe (I've never seen one yet that can
block them all - though I've seen much smaller lists of allowed sites which
makes more sense than blocking all of the bad ones) that there's just too
many out there to block all of them. If it's URL blocked then, well, there's
a lot of them... If it's keyword blocked then there's alternate spellings
and sites that contain nothing but images. To do as the OP asked would be
pretty much impossible with any software so long as there's people willing
to find alternatives. A recent, mildly entertaining, example would be the
School Administrative District 35 here's recent run-in with parents. It
seems they tried everything (including the above) to block all the sites
that would be harmful. The kids, this is only a middle school, found that
even most search engines were blocked. They still managed to find one, use
the image search, and load all sorts of images at high speed bandwidth.
There was quite a big bunch of bluster with the parents and a special school
board meeting that made the newspaper.

I could be mistaken but it seems to me that any product that claims to block
all (and is not using a whitelist instead of trying to block a large portion
of the internet by URL or text content) needs only have their product tried
out by intuitive and dedicated children.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)

"You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his
trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

Sherlock Holmes