Hi Osama,
That's true -- the free ones don't provide the same granularity.
Have you checked out GFI's Web filter? Pretty low cost and has had good
reviews.
Tom
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From: Osama Salah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Looking for appliance: proxy, web filter, antivirus
I haven't seen any of those DBs? I can't imagine them getting
close to the quality of commercial offerings (I'm not saying that free
stuff isn't of good quality, in this particular case I doubt it would
be).
Are they any good? Do they classify websites into categories?
I also would need to replace the AV to something that is
reasonably priced.
Somehow I think an appliance will have these features in a
decent bundle price. Good price/performance.
rgds
OS
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From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Looking for appliance: proxy, web filter, antivirus
Why not use the ISA firewall with the free databases out there?
From: Osama Salah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Looking for appliance: proxy, web filter, antivirus
Hi all,
we've been running an ISA server with Websense and AVAST AV for
quite some time now for a total of 1000 users.
Websense is becoming rather expensive (per user pricing) and I'm
not too happy of the malware protection offered by AVAST. And I don't
really care if the websense database is the best in the world. A half
way decent web filter is more than we need.
We are looking for a replacement, possibly an appliance that
doesn't cost a fortune.
I had a look at BlueCoat but that looks like it will be
expensive.
Fortinet and Bloxx seems to be fitting the requirements.
What else is outthere?
rgds
Osama S.
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