[WEB4LIB] Anonymous Proxies

[Jon Legree]

We use Symantec Web Security (formerly I-Gear) which has an anonymous proxy
filtering category. It blocks alot of them, although I'm sure it's not 100%
effective.

Jon Legree
Library Technology Specialist
Yorba Linda Public Library
Yorba Linda, CA
jon at ylpl.lib.ca.us

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Robert Day
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 7:59 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Anonymous Proxies


Hi

For those libraries that do use filtering software, what do you do to combat
users employing anonymous proxy services to bypass that filtering? We are
finding it an increasing problem. We use a certain product that is quite
good at doing its filtering job but it takes just 5 minutes on Google to get
round it and into some fairly hardcore porn. Yes, we can add proxies we find
manually but there are hundreds of the things.

Robert Day
Cambridgeshire Libraries, UK

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