Hello Squid users,
Here is the info about new release of QuintoLabs Content Security which
may be interesting to some Squid users who use or plan to use ICAP in
their deployments.
FYI
QuintoLabs Content Security is an ICAP daemon/URL rewriter that
integrates with existing Squid Proxy Server and provides rich content
filtering functionality to sanitize Internet traffic passing into
internal home/enterprise network. It may be used to block illegal or
potentially malicious file downloads, remove annoying advertisements,
prevent access to various categories of the web sites and block
resources with explicit content.
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QuintoLabs released the next version of Content Security 1.4 for Squid
Proxy Server. This version adds the following new features, bug fixes
and improvements:
1. Added "File Type Filtering Module" that could be used to easily
identify executables or other types of files by looking at real file
contents (up to 4096 Kb).
2. Implemented brute-force content inspection module used to search
contents of downloaded web pages for adult or explicit contents. It
allows the administrator to filter web pages based on their real
contents often faster than URL and Domain block modules did before.
3. The application now supports sophisticated "trickled" inspection
logic to be able to scan contents of huge files being downloaded through
Squid.
4. Two phase scanner is implemented. It allows an inspection module to
skip scanning large number of files that are known to be safe and that
do not need filtering.
5. AdBlock module is greatly improved. It now uses a transparent .gif
file to imitate the blocked advertisement which in turn leads to better
looking web pages without ads (most notably in Microsoft Internet Explorer).
6. Improved ICAP RFC compliance when qlproxy detects errors in ICAP
transactions, unavailable resources or incorrect internal states.
7. Improved file name parsing algorithm for Microsoft IIS servers. The
detect ratio for File Name Blocking Module is greatly improved.
8. ICAP mode of integration now supports 'redirect' action for a
detected object.
9. Objects with gzip transfer encoding are also inspected by all modules
now.
10. Fixed a typo in the configuration parser module when disabling
AdBlock also leads to disable Parental Controls module.
11. Tiny Proxy Virtual Appliance are now packed with README file.
12. Dropped support for Debian 5 and Fedora 13.
13. Added support for dumping inspected objects to temporary files in
/var/opt/quintolabs/qlproxy/tmp to ease debugging scenarios.
14. Internal ICAP protocol tests are deployed with the application in
/opt/quintolabs/qlproxy/bin/tests.
For more detailed information see the release notes at
http://quintolabs.com/qlproxy/binaries/1.4.0/releasenotes.htm.
Installation packages and tiny web proxy virtual appliance can be
downloaded from:
http://quintolabs.com/qlicap_download.php and
http://quintolabs.com/qlicap_virtual.php.
The development team wishes to thank all users of QuintoLabs.
Please direct your thoughts, critics and suggestions to
support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/quintolabs-content-security-for-squid-proxy.
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Best regards,
sich
QuintoLabs Support Team
