Blocking Domains

[dakotatech]

I am the IT dude for the small company I work for. We have high speed (over phone wires) internet into a router (belkin cheapie), going to about 9 work stations (XP,2K). We have one employee who spends too much time surfing the government sites for ways to get his family into the US. Is there a way to block anything with .gov in it. I am using the hosts file but I have to enter each and every site.

 

Thanks

 

P.S. The boss doesn't like to spend money. That's why I got stuck with the IT stuff.

[Head Guru]

I would use a Proxy Solution. You would set up one PC and tunnel all the client requests thru the proxy.

 

http://www.google.com/search?q=free+proxy+...art=10&sa=N

[makaveli]

also try and see how you can block the word proxy in a site, as if the guy's clued up you can get on "banned sites" through a proxy website.

 

i used to use them to get on myspace and youtube and where the site contains

 

for example

 

www.thenameoftheproxysite.net//nph-proxy.pl/010110A/http/www.totalchoicehhosting.com/

[carbonize]

My employer uses Smoothwall for their proxy and it can block by domain or by words contained in the pages requested. It also has a pathetic extension blocker which they have set to block such things as .zip, .mp3 and so on. Stupid thing is it just checks the extension and not the mime type so you just change the extension.