McAfee has a product called Site Advisor. It has an optional web filtering
plugin that lets you set a PC-based filter policy for web browsing. The
filtering is pretty effective (the policy lives on the PC and it does URL
categorization lookups to a McAfee server over the Internet). 

It works as a browser helper object on IE or as a plug-in on Firefox, so a
determined user could get around it.

-Malcolm

From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 15:00
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Management of laptops

 

Folks,

 

Any suggestions on products to manage laptops?  We have a number of nomadic
users who use their issued laptops with aircards.  Sometimes they have a
wired or wireless connection, but not at any of my locations (these staff
work off-site).

 

Staff don't have much access, they are all "users".  I am looking for a
product whereby I can enforce similar content filtering/web surfing
filtering as my corporate fire walls.  I assume I'd need some sort of client
for the laptops that would occasionally check in to a central system for
updates.  We are a Fortinet shop, and I'm looking at the Forticlient, but am
looking at alternatives.  We have an issue with viruses on these machines
(usually blocked, but I get the notices), and that's usually from staff
going to web sites that would be blocked at the corporate level.

 

Suggestions appreciated.

 

Tom

 

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