Industry Standard Computers
St. Clairsville, Ohio
(740) 695-1520
20 Years In Business - 20 Years Experience with Computers - 15 Years with Networks & Security
The oldest system builder in the area, maybe in the state!
Best Labor Rate in the Area, $25 Shop, $35 Outside
The following is a list of side effects? or probable "will nots" with our "Firewall content Filtering Server" system:
(If you are currently a customer behind our "Firewall content Filtering Server" and missed the information meetings click here.)
When you block 600,000 web sites from access you might accidentally block a "good" web site. These are 15 second fixes in our system from a web browser.
Microsoft in all their greed... MSN.com will have sections blocked or you have to allow access to all of MSN's advertising and a lot of "preview" adult material, spyware and tracking. Most spyware block lists contain parts of MSN.com. Some block all of it. This is not a bad thing to consider company wide anyway.
Large amounts of java script with redirects can cause intermittent problems. Netscape.com is a good example. The news stories with its redirects to CBS News or somewhere else might be 500 characters long. This actually is a Windows problem made worst by a better firewall.
Real Player and Real Player adverts are dead... they are on way too many blacklist to ever fix even if you wanted to do so. But Winamp & Windows Media Player do just fine.
Personal email accounts will generally stop working, things like Hotmail, Yahoo mail, Netscape mail if they are configured to be download with Microsoft Outlook or Outlook express. Mozilla Mail or Thunderbird don't seem to be affected as much. Upgrading these free accounts from HTTP to actually POP3 accounts will remedy this problem. It is better to move all of these email addresses to actual business email accounts; it looks more professional anyway. If you must have "web mail" accounts we can create a Gmail email account for you and it can be downloaded locally and virus scanned and de-spammed too.
Email will take longer to receive because each email goes through up to 4 different scans before it gets to Windows. There will be a 1-2 second delay between email in an extremely high spam environment.
If you do a lot of web searches on questionable material, the Adult blocker will stop many of these sites from appearing due to the use of "sex language" that appears on the web sites. Sensitivity can be adjusted downward on a company wide basis. The site can be added to the whitelist so it will never be blocked.
NO remote workers. VPNs, remote desktops, and many of the commercial or free remote computer management software will need reconfiguration or be dead all together. If these are still an important part of "doing business" their flaky natures will only become worst when put behind such high security. We have alternate ways of remote management available.
When on a WAN system, all nodes will need filtering servers at each location's Internet access portal. (Locking the front door does no good when the backdoor and screen door is standing wide open!)
P2P programs and Instant Messaging can be set up to work but you basically reduce the filtering server to an porn blocker, email scanner and spam detector. Not the high security firewall and such it is designed to be. AOL is a no no! Must be removed from all company computers. People can still check AOL email without AOL.
If you do a lot of surfing on "advertisement" sites like radio or television web sites. There will be a lot of wholes in the pages due to national or click through advertising being blocked. (There are some adjustments for these if you like seeing advertisements.)
If you are use to the "Windows" approach then it will take some getting use to the "Do it and be done with it" approach in our system.
If you are use to Windows and spending thousands of dollars only to
find spending more thousands of dollars, get over it! Linux is basically
free. You are paying for our service & management comprises your firewall
protection.
Email: sales11(at)ISCnetwork.com
Alternate Email: iscnetwork (at) gmail.com
Phone (740) 695-1520