{"id":51,"date":"2009-02-08T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitallachance.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2009-02-08T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T18:00:24","slug":"web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Web content filtering without installing any software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you could protect your whole network from malware, adware, porn and other web sites that should not ever be viewed by employees or children, wouldn&#8217;t you do it?\u00a0 What if I told\u00a0 you that you can, and you don&#8217;t even have to install any software anywhere in your network?\u00a0 I usually go by the old adage that if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.\u00a0 This is one time where that&#8217;s not true.<\/p>\n<p>My secret weapon is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendns.com\" target=\"_blank\">OpenDNS<\/a>.\u00a0 I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfsense.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">pfSense<\/a> firewall at home and I also have installed this great freeBSD based firewall at three other customer&#8217;s sites.\u00a0 Although the ISP for each of these sites supply their own DNS server, I do not point the firewall to their DNS.\u00a0 I simply set the DNS server address on the General Setup page to point to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>208.67.222.222<\/li>\n<li>208.67.222.220<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Using OpenDNS does not really slow things down in any way (not that anybody can truly notice anyway).\u00a0 Also, OpenDNS is introducing a free service to protect you from the Conficker worm.\u00a0 Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/02\/07\/opendns_conficker_protection\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> from The Register to see all of the details.\u00a0 Go on and create yourself an account on OpenDNS.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll be able to do filtering based on 27 categories.\u00a0 The service you get for free from these guys is top notch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Looks like has just published a very concise page about the Conficker worm and how to deal with it.\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/dd452420.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/dd452420.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (Feb. 10): <\/strong>Looks like <a title=\"Stats are back; and we're blocking Conficker\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.opendns.com\/2009\/02\/09\/stats-are-back-and-conficker\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenDNS official blog<\/a> has more information about their new feature.<\/p>\n<p><!-- OpenDNS button --><br \/>\n<a title=\"Use OpenDNS to make your Internet faster, safer, and smarter.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opendns.com\/share\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/images.opendns.com\/buttons\/use_opendns_150x40.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"40\" style=\"border:0;\" alt=\"Use OpenDNS\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- \/ end OpenDNS button --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mippin.com\/link\/mippit.jsp?id=50252\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.mippin.com\/app\/images\/blogger_button.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Add IT a digital life Mippin widget\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free protection without installing any software.  The solution is simple, just use the right DNS to prevent the traffic from entering your network in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[18,21,22],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Web content filtering without installing any software - IT A Digital Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"IT A Digital Life\",\"description\":\"All things digital\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/images.opendns.com\/buttons\/use_opendns_150x40.gif\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software\/\",\"name\":\"Web content filtering without installing any software - IT A Digital Life\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-02-08T18:00:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-02-08T18:00:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8a2f0b2a18af80d71541deadfac4d02f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"item\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-content-filtering-without-installing-any-software\/\",\"name\":\"Web content filtering without installing any software\"}}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8a2f0b2a18af80d71541deadfac4d02f\",\"name\":\"Francois\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2ee0649f3fb6a643ffff9a9f1e63e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Francois\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digitallachance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}