Parental Filtering

[Pulsar]

I'm in a bit of a unique situation. I use sprint mobile broadband to connect to the internet.

My network layout looks like this:

Internet => Sprint Mobile Broadband Modem => Server (PIII 500 with XP, Zonealarm pro, etc) => Wireless Buffalo HP router.

Multiple computers connect through the wireless router to the net. The router does not have DHCP enabled - the PIII is handling that and the router is merely acting as a wireless access point. I'm trying to use some type of easy parental filter, but I'd like to install it centrally - say on the Server. I wanted to use OpenDNS, but evidently Sprint Mobile Broadband redirects port 53 queries to their own DNS servers and thus locks me out. I'm not interested in trying to VPN to get to OpenDNS either.

What are my options for installing on the XP server to filter content delivered to the other computers - something that can sit on top of Windows XP Internet connection sharing (or between it and the 'net).

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Squidguard

 

[drebo]

Run CyberPatrol on the computers you want to filter.

 

[Pulsar]

Squidguard

And does that run on windows xp? I went to the squidguard webpage and it prominently stated that it will compile on any modern unix version.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/BinaryPackages

And yes the squidguard add in has windows ports as well.

 

[Pulsar]

Thanks. I got squid up and running. Here's the issue though (and others have found it on their forums too). When using squid as a proxy, you can either set up your intenet browser to direct to the proxy, or just skip it all together. There's nothing stopping the user to simply uncheck the proxy button in the internet browser and getting to the internet free of the filtering.

To fix THAT, you have to set up IPTables (not available for xp) or some other transparent port-directing utility.

This is getting to the point where it's not any better than simply installing some software on the 4 computers I have running in the house. I guess there still isn't anything out there that is simple and easy to set up and run.

 

[EQTitan]

depending on age I use Kidzui for my kids 6 and 8. i setup user accounts and only allow access to kidzui as browser.