| ipFireGuard+
Main Features |
The main features
of ipFireGuard+ are:
- Significantly lower cost than IGear
(one of the best commercial filters)
- Can block adverts by the use of
an advert URL block list
- Can filter text and HTML pages for
obscene (sexual, racial, violent, etc) content
- Uses an advanced phrase weighting
system to reduce over or under blocking
- Can filter sites using the PICS
labeling system
- Can filter according to MIME type
and file extension
- Can filter according to URLs including
Regular Expression URLs
- URL filtering is compatible with
squidGuard black lists
- The URL filtering is able to filter
https requests
- Can work in a 'whitelist' mode where
all sites except those listed are blocked
- Can block all IP based URLs
- Is able to block sites when users
try using the IP address of the site instead
- Produces a log in a very human readable
format
- Optionally produces a log in CSV
format for east import into databases etc
- Is able to log the username using
either Ident or basic proxy authentication
- It has the ability to switch off
filtering for specified sites, parts of sites, browser IPs
and usernames
- Can block specified source IPs and
usernames
- Can block or limit web uploading
(e.g. attachments in Hotmail)
- Has the ability to work in a stealth
mode where it logs sites that would have been blocked, but
does not block them
- This allows you to monitor your
users without them knowing
- Uses a very intelligent algorithm
to match phrases in web pages mixed in with HTML code and
white space
- Big5, Unicode and top-bit set characters
can be used in search phrases
- The configuration lists use the
same incredibly fast code that allows them all to be hundreds
of thousands of entries long
- Supports compressed (Content-Encoding
gzip and deflate) HTML
- Can be made to only listen on 1
IP
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| ipFireGuard+
inherits these features from the web content filter being used
under GPL License - DansGuardian. |
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