You guys with computer problems...

[Akula]

I have seen so many threads on here with people complaining about problems on their PC, usually related to spyware.

 

My company offers a free for use at home, content filter. You can block your children from getting to porn, but you can also block spyware and ads.

 

I am not advertising my company or its products, I just wanted to offer that you go download and install this product.

 

again, it is free

 

http://getk9.com/

 

This is not a reactive anti-spyware tool, this stops spyware from installing on your machine via http sessions.

[Rally Pat]

BlueCoat

[Casper]

BlueCoat

 

[Clifford Automotive]

BlueCoat

 

+ 2

 

I had Bluecoat nationwide when I was at Keystone. Worked well.

[Rally Pat]

+ 2

 

I had Bluecoat nationwide when I was at Keystone. Worked well.

 

It tends to be a little nazi-esque when it comes to web filtering. So you might say that it works too well. Instead of focusing on websites that should be blocked, its hit or miss with that, and instead blocks lots of useful websites, using bandwidth as an excuse. Softpedia, for example, is a big one that I wish wasn't blocked.

 

Who knows, maybe I just had a bad experience.

[Akula]

Bluecoat doesn't block anything, it rates it and your admin tells the box what to do with the rating (porn, block sports site, allow). We process 150 Million sites per day and run a rating service on all the content referenced on that site, but that is only if you are using our service. If you are using Websense as the filtering mechanism that service might rate differently.

 

For instance, CR is rated by our service as Vehicles. Not sure what websense or the other services consider it. So the normal setup would be block porn and allow vehicles. If you go to Linn's suggested pages you will get blocked. If you navigate so a forum that has questionable NWS content listed it will just block those frames.

 

Either way, the point of this thread was to help the people that keep getting spyware. K9 uses our commercial backend service.

[Casper]

It tends to be a little nazi-esque when it comes to web filtering. So you might say that it works too well. Instead of focusing on websites that should be blocked, its hit or miss with that, and instead blocks lots of useful websites, using bandwidth as an excuse. Softpedia, for example, is a big one that I wish wasn't blocked.

 

Who knows, maybe I just had a bad experience.

 

That sounds more like whoever implemented it dude. Say, your employer didn't want that bandwidth used so they blocked softpedia. Its completely configurable.

[Casper]

Bluecoat doesn't block anything, it rates it and your admin tells the box what to do with the rating (porn, block sports site, allow). We process 150 Million sites per day and run a rating service on all the content referenced on that site, but that is only if you are using our service. If you are using Websense as the filtering mechanism that service might rate differently.

 

For instance, CR is rated by our service as Vehicles. Not sure what websense or the other services consider it. So the normal setup would be block porn and allow vehicles. If you go to Linn's suggested pages you will get blocked. If you navigate so a forum that has questionable NWS content listed it will just block those frames.

 

Either way, the point of this thread was to help the people that keep getting spyware. K9 uses our commercial backend service.

 

Mind telling me what it rates Ohio-Riders.net as??

[Rally Pat]

Maybe, I have no clue how the filtering system works, thats IT's thing, not Telecom's. We just make the network and the phones work.

[Casper]

Maybe, I have no clue how the filtering system works, thats IT's thing, not Telecom's. We just make the network and the phones work.

 

I'm going to call bullshit on the network thing if you didn't know how a filter works...... you know...... since that's the network administrator's job......

 

And telecom is just that, telecommunications.... aka phones.

 

Maybe you do wiring?

 

Regardless, you were way too eager to when you read BlueCoat, even though you have no idea how it works. Instead, you should your network admins for blocking stuff you want.

[Akula]

Mind telling me what it rates Ohio-Riders.net as??

 

Vehicles

 

http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp

[Rally Pat]

I'm going to call bullshit on the network thing if you didn't know how a filter works...... you know...... since that's the network administrator's job......

 

And telecom is just that, telecommunications.... aka phones.

 

Maybe you do wiring?

 

The filter is IT's thing, not ours, just like the servers. Thats part of the stuff that they manage. Everything that is related to internet access is controlled by them. We control the actual network. The content filter has nothing to do with the network itself.

 

As far as wiring goes, the extent I do of that is running cross connects for jacks.

[Casper]

The filter is IT's thing, not ours, just like the servers. Thats part of the stuff that they manage. Everything that is related to internet access is controlled by them. We control the actual network. The content filter has nothing to do with the network itself.

 

As far as wiring goes, the extent I do of that is running cross connects for jacks.

 

 

So, what exactly do you do on the network then? Just switches and routers?

[Akula]

The filter is IT's thing, not ours, just like the servers. Thats part of the stuff that they manage. Everything that is related to internet access is controlled by them. We control the actual network. The content filter has nothing to do with the network itself.

 

As far as wiring goes, the extent I do of that is running cross connects for jacks.

 

But since the Blue Coat is an object cache/byte cache, it is part of the network also (especially if it is inline). Plus, we can do protocol optimization as well, and now that Packeteer is part of our mix we are the view into the network.

 

</sales pitch>

[Rally Pat]

So, what exactly do you do on the network then? Just switches and routers?

 

Essentially, yes, and the connections between the buildings.