Internet Filtering for Office

[allsaintsinsura]

does anyone use an internet filtering program at their office to keep employees of of facebook and such? I've seen good things about K9 protection and Dave Ramsey recommends Safe Eyes. Does anyone else have any suggestions on how to keep the employees on the straight and narrow.

 

[Josh]

You can usually block at least most of it from the router if you pay a geek $50.

 

[Frank Stastny]

A good caning with a large, heavy, soaked rattan cane will usually send a memorable message.

 

[DHK]

I use the K9 web protection. It's free for personal use. It's quite good at blocking everything that can be distracting. Of course, the administrator can permanently or temporarily authorize certain websites or categories.

Download it and check it out.

 

[VolAgent]

If you're a small office, don't waste your time and money on it. Put it in the employee handbook that it is a fireable office. Then quickly and swiftly fire the first person you catch on Facebook, etc. That will get your message across much better.

 

[SaleMaster76]

You can use OpenDns.org's service. It's free and does a pretty good job. I've been using it at home for about a year now.

 

[Anelly]

I'm using an internet filter called Cyclope. Is perfect for small - medium sized companies. Here is the application reviewed by SC Magazine wwwdot scmagazineusdot com/cyclope-internet-filtering-proxy/review/3433/

 

[ksigmtsu]

Software for prevention of accessing of IP addresses is basically masturbation.

Anyone with about 2 seconds time can access a proxy if you leave any ports open on the firewall that can be used for web access.

Step 1 to securing a network. Block everything. Step 2, open only the ip addresses and ports needed to work. The more you open, the less secure it is.

In particular if you're running windows based systems in a shared internal network with open ports and access to sites that could contain malware/viruses, good luck.

Better off buying good backup software for when your systems die from misuse than you are buying software to block ip addresses.

 

[DHK]

http://www.pandorashope.com/Products.aspx

Just heard about this one recently. $199 for a small-business filter/router, then $19.95/year.

 

[Josh]

http://www.pandorashope.com/Products.aspx

Just heard about this one recently. $199 for a small-business filter/router, then $19.95/year.

It looks like that is mostly an anti-porn filter (if not entirely). It will allow access to youtube and the like, so not sure how much that will help the OP. Also willing to bet $50 it can be circumvented inside of 20 minutes.