Looking for proxyserver with parental filtering

[Willy Pastoor]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a proxyserver for protecting my kids against all kinds
of nasty websites like porn and warez.

Now i'm using 'iProtectYou' (http://www.softforyou.com/ip-free.html) on
my kids PC's. But they figured out how to dissable the program. Also it
conflicts with some games and sometimes gets corrupted and crashes the
PC.

Now i want to set up a spare PC as a proxyserver between the internet
and the PC's in my home network.

I've tried Privoxy. It's a nice program with many good functions for
filtering out banners, text, pop-ups and scripts, but (unless i missed
something) it doesn't seem to block COMPLETE websites based on
predefined keywords in the url or webpage content.

Is there another program around that does it all or that blocks
complete websites and that can be combined with Privoxy?

Willy

 

[H-Man]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a proxyserver for protecting my kids against all kinds
of nasty websites like porn and warez.

Now i'm using 'iProtectYou' (http://www.softforyou.com/ip-free.html)
on my kids PC's. But they figured out how to dissable the program.
Also it conflicts with some games and sometimes gets corrupted and
crashes the PC.

Now i want to set up a spare PC as a proxyserver between the internet
and the PC's in my home network.

I've tried Privoxy. It's a nice program with many good functions for
filtering out banners, text, pop-ups and scripts, but (unless i missed
something) it doesn't seem to block COMPLETE websites based on
predefined keywords in the url or webpage content.

Is there another program around that does it all or that blocks
complete websites and that can be combined with Privoxy?

The only way I know to get Privoxy to filter by content would be to
build your own filter based on words to look for in the HTML. I've not
played with Privoxy from a while now, but seems to me you could redirect
to a safe page on your proxy server.

 

[Willy Pastoor]

H-Man schreef op 25-9-2004 :

The only way I know to get Privoxy to filter by content would be to build
your own filter based on words to look for in the HTML. I've not played with
Privoxy from a while now, but seems to me you could redirect to a safe page
on your proxy server.

The filter should not be the problem but which action should i use for
the redirect?

The 'Block' action only blocks parts of a page like banners or am i
wrong?

 

[JanC]

Willy Pastoor schreef:

I'm looking for a proxyserver for protecting my kids against all kinds
of nasty websites like porn and warez.

Now i'm using 'iProtectYou' (http://www.softforyou.com/ip-free.html) on
my kids PC's. But they figured out how to dissable the program. Also it
conflicts with some games and sometimes gets corrupted and crashes the
PC.

Now i want to set up a spare PC as a proxyserver between the internet
and the PC's in my home network.

I've tried Privoxy. It's a nice program with many good functions for
filtering out banners, text, pop-ups and scripts, but (unless i missed
something) it doesn't seem to block COMPLETE websites based on
predefined keywords in the url or webpage content.

Is there another program around that does it all or that blocks
complete websites and that can be combined with Privoxy?

No program will ever filter everything unwanted out (unwanted by you, not
by your kids .


Something you might try is Willow:
<http://www.digitallumber.com/willow>

It uses a technique very similar to "bayesian spam filters": it "learns"
what is good or bad content.

I see there is a bootable (linux) iso that runs this proxy too.

 

[Willy Pastoor]

JanC beweerde :

Willy Pastoor schreef:


No program will ever filter everything unwanted out (unwanted by you, not
by your kids .


Something you might try is Willow:
<http://www.digitallumber.com/willow>

It uses a technique very similar to "bayesian spam filters": it "learns"
what is good or bad content.

I see there is a bootable (linux) iso that runs this proxy too.

Jan,

thanks for your suggestion. I hoped for a program that runs under
Windows but it can't hurt to try out the bootable CD although i have no
experience with Linux.

 

[JanC]

Willy Pastoor schreef:

thanks for your suggestion. I hoped for a program that runs under
Windows but it can't hurt to try out the bootable CD although i have no
experience with Linux.

I didn't look at it before, but many Python programs are cross-platform.
Unforunately it seems like this one uses unix authentication (pwd & grp
modules) and the unix-only fork() instruction. :-(

But I think the Linux bootable CD should be easy to use if you read the
explanation on the site.

BTW: seems like a better (newer) URL for this program is at:
<http://www.digitallumber.com/software/willow/>
(The downloads work from there...

 

[H-Man]

H-Man schreef op 25-9-2004 :

The filter should not be the problem but which action should i use for
the redirect?

The 'Block' action only blocks parts of a page like banners or am i
wrong?

Can you replace the offending text with a redirect HTML tag ?
Like I said, it's been a while, if not, look for The Proxomitron, also a
proxy filter that can examine and replace text. This also has a huge
following that will be able to point you in the right direction with
regards to how to build the filter.
http://www.proxomitron.info/index.html

 

[Willy Pastoor]

Willy Pastoor drukte met precisie uit :

Hi all,

I'm looking for a proxyserver for protecting my kids against all kinds of
nasty websites like porn and warez.

Now i'm using 'iProtectYou' (http://www.softforyou.com/ip-free.html) on my
kids PC's. But they figured out how to dissable the program. Also it
conflicts with some games and sometimes gets corrupted and crashes the PC.

Now i want to set up a spare PC as a proxyserver between the internet and the
PC's in my home network.

I've tried Privoxy. It's a nice program with many good functions for
filtering out banners, text, pop-ups and scripts, but (unless i missed
something) it doesn't seem to block COMPLETE websites based on predefined
keywords in the url or webpage content.

Is there another program around that does it all or that blocks complete
websites and that can be combined with Privoxy?

Willy

Thanks for your suggestions.

I just found a demo filter with Privoxy that seems to do the job. But i
will have to modify it a bit.

Those regular expressions are not that easy. So it will keep me busy
for some time... :/