Protecting your family

[bioradmeister at gmail.com (Dan Stadelman)]

Congrats on the baby!!!

Dan

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jason Guyer <guyerjp at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey guys I should have known better than to put up a question like that
> without giving more details about my current setup. It might be after the
> fact, but I have a laptop running Ubuntu 9.10 and a desktop that dual boots
> between XP SP3 and Ubuntu 9.10. I've been using OpenDNS for years now and
> I'm very happy with the way things work with them especially when it comes
> to content filtering at my in-laws. I also always run AV on my systems
> (Avira for XP and AVG for Ubuntu) and I definitely make sure the AV and
> patches are all up to date. I've also been running m0n0wall as my firewall
> for several years and Francois mentioned pfSense. I've been wanting to check
> that out in place of m0n0wall and now is a good time for me to try it. I am
> also planning on getting another low power small form factor PC for
> additional filtering and Timothy mentioned using Squid with dansguardian and
> that looks good to me. I also liked what Nick said about treating my home
> network like an enterprise network and the more I think about it the more it
> makes sense. It has also been suggested to me by my coworkers to look at
> Untangle since it's what we use at the office as well as Vyatta for a
> firewall/router. The Vyatta thing I'll look at later since it looks like it
> will take quite a while to learn the commands and configuration. I can't
> thank you guys enough for all the help and I'm gonna try to return the favor
> when I can.
>
> --- On *Sun, 2/7/10, Jason Guyer <guyerjp at yahoo.com>* wrote:
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> From: Jason Guyer <guyerjp at yahoo.com>
>
> Subject: [Pauldotcom] Protecting your family
> To: Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
> Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 3:35 PM
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> I have a baby girl on the way and it suddenly hit me, what am I going to do
> to protect my family (myself included) from online attacks? There are
> content filters like squid proxy as well as things that do more like
> "Untangle" or I can filter through OpenDNS. Any options or suggestions?
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