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Lowth.com: Web Filtering for Smoothwall Using squidGuard

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 13, 2003

[ Thanks to Chris Lowth
for this link. ]

“squidGuard describes itself as: ‘An ultrafast and free filter,
redirector and access controller for Squid.’ In my experience, it
is the ideal web filter for use with Smoothwall since it is
lightweight and easy to set up. I use it on an i486, 33Mhz system
with 18Mb of Ram and 500Mb of hard drive–and while there is a
minor performance hit, the hit is not significant.

“This simple how-to describes the steps I took to install
squidGuard on my system–it should work for yours too…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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