SBS 03 Standard - best way to block users from websites

[flipperc]

Hi, New to SBS

I have standard, so no ISA server or Proxy server.

I also inherited a NetScreen 5GT without the websense service.

Now for the question... What is the best way to block my users from myspace & hotmail?

Thanks in advance.

 

[wahnula]

Tell them you have keylogging software installed on the server and visiting those sites is forbidden...worked for me. Alternative would be a SonicWALL appliance + ViewPoint software. Most "net nanny" programs are easily defeated. KGBSpy is an excellent keylogger, if you change the default hotkey combination it really is stealthy, and installs on the client.

Tony

 

[flipperc]

Well,

I could use a keylogger to keep tabs on what they do. But that would be a lot of work when there are 20 employees.

I want to be able to stop them from getting the these sites in the first place.

Thanks

 

[PHV]

In the logon script you may perhaps download a hosts file containing the following:[ignore]
127.0.0.1 localhost

http://www.myspace.com

http://www.hotmail.com

www.hotmail.msn.com[/ignore]

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[ShackDaddy]

I just create a new forward lookup zone in the local DNS for myspace. Then create a

http://www record

in that zone that points to 127.0.0.1 or to the IP of your company's website. Then they would have to know the IP address of the sites to get to them, and that's not guaranteed to work either.

You don't want to do that for hotmail.com, otherwise your mail server will be unable to send mail to hotmail.com accounts. You would need to create this domain: hotmail.msn.com, since that's the domain that all hotmail mail retrieval uses.

ShackDaddy
Shackelford Consulting

 

[PHV]

You don't want to do that for hotmail.com
This is precisely for that reason that I suggested a local hosts file instead of tweaking the SBS DNS server ...