ufdbGuard v1.30, the free URL filter for Squid, has been released on January 22, 2013. ufdbGuard is an Open Source Software project hosted on SourceForge.net and is a fully functional URL filter with lots of extra features including: - supports all versions of Squid and supports the Squid directive url_rewrite_concurrency - easy integration with LDAP, Kerberos, Active Directory, MySQL and others to have different user policies based on group membership (new in v1.30) - supports user-defined URL tables - support Youtube educational filtering - supports all free URL databases in plaintext - supports a commercial URL database from www.urlfilterdb.com - extremely fast URL lookup (50,000 lookups/second per CPU) - proxy tunnel detection and blocking - safer use of HTTPS (enforcement of certificate and FQDN) - detects various chat applications over HTTPS and selectively blocks/allows chat - SafeSearch enforcement for many search engines - time-based user policies - supports the free anti-phishing URL table from www.phishtank.com - supports monitoring - provides basic statistics - provides a mini-HTTP server to display a suitable text/image for blocked objects Marcus Kool
