Bob Shepherd wrote:
I've considered using a proxy to help make the web "kid-safe" for all PCs in
the household, without having to install host-PC applications like
"Net-Nanny" and the like. However, a friend has tried this using a whitelist
approach, to disastrous results. It turns out almost all the sites have so
much included content from other foreign URLs that it made the whitelist
approach generally unmanageable. I'm wondering if anyone has had success
with a proxy used for kid-safe content filtering?
You should have a look at SquidGuard or DansGuardian. Intrex uses a
filter based on SquidGuard (a plugin for Squid) which has freely a
available database you can use for blocking that is updated on a
tri-weekly basis. The setup is pretty straight forward, and well
documented. And if you decide it's more hassle than you'd like, you
could always subscribe to Intrex's filtering service. :)
Aaron S. Joyner
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