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Guardian strike again - this time on YouTube ads Wed 18 Nov 2009

YouTube video about blocking YouTube ads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIvl8eCvlkI.

 
SmoothWall.org has shiny new website Fri 13 Nov 2009

Have a look see.

 
Advert Filtering Video Redux Tue 5 Nov 2009

I was sent this YouTube Guardian advert filtering video also and I liked it so here it is. Not only are adverts removed in the page but also the 1 min of adverts video are removed and it skips straight to the TV one wants to watch!

 
Advert Filtering Video Tue, 29 Sep 2009

I was sent this Guardian advert filtering video and I liked it so here it is. What it shows is a web page full of adverts then it fades to the same page when using Guardian advert filtering. It then rewinds and shows this again once more.

 
Are you IPv6 Ready? Tue, 7 Jul 2009

DansGuardian.org for some time now has been accessible via IPv6. It even has an IPv6 only deligated DNS server and full IPv6 reverse-IP. Are you IPv6 Ready?

 
DansGuardian 2.10.1.1 is released! Fri, 5 Jun 2009

This a bug fix release. Details are on the history page. Go to the download page to get it.

 
DansGuardian 2.10.0.3 is released! Wed, 21 Jan 2009

This a bug fix release. Details are on the history page. Go to the download page to get it.

 
DansGuardian 2.10.0.2 is released! Wed, 26 Nov 2008

This a bug fix release. Details are on the history page. Go to the download page to get it.

 
DansGuardian 2.10.0.1 is released! Tue, 21 Oct 2008

This a bug fix release. Details are on the history page. Go to the download page to get it.

 
DansGuardian 2.10 is released! Wed, 08 Oct 2008

Daniel Barron and Philip Allison release DansGuardian 2.10 - the first new stable-tagged version since August 2005. It is the first version to be tagged stable from the 2.9 development branch which has been in development for over three and a half years.

DansGuardian 2.10 has had a plethora of features added since 2.8 and these are some of the highlights:

  • Built-in content scanner plugin system which includes AV scanning.
  • NTLM and persistent connection support.
  • Header analysis and manipulation so you can manipulate cookies
  • Large file (2GB+) download & scanning support
  • Autotools build system
  • URL regular expression replacement so you can force safe search in Google
  • Deep URL scanning to spot URLs in URLs to for example block images in Google images
  • Advanced advert blocking
  • Many performance improvements
  • Updates to handle all current web technology trends
  • Blanket SSL blocking so you can block SSL anonymous proxies and allow access to legitimate SSL sites such as banking by whitelisting
Informal analysis of this release

About DansGuardian:
DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web content filter which runs on most modern Unix-like operating systems including Linux and Mac OS X. It is a system daemon provided in source code format along with the scripts to compile it. The target users are system administrators and developers. DansGuardian is the web content filtering engine only. Many products including SmoothWall's Network Guardian use it as a central component of the software. DansGuardian provides true web content filtering by examining the actual content of the pages and headers and not simply blocking on an out-of-date-as-soon-as-released URL list like most competitors.

About Daniel Barron (CTO and Technical Director of SmoothWall):
Daniel Barron is the original author and inventor of DansGuardian and was the developer and maintainer up until just after the start of version 2.9. Since then he has been involved in the higher level direction as well as basic sysadmin of DansGuardian. He is the CTO and Technical Director of SmoothWall (smoothwall.com) and, in his spare time, the Guild Barron of Senatus Redux (senatus.nl).

About Philip Allison (Senior Developer at SmoothWall):
Philip has been working on DansGuardian since 2005 as his day job at SmoothWall. He is the principal developer and also the key representative on the DansGuardian mailing list.

 
DansGuardian 2.9.9.8 is released! Thu, 11 Sep 2008

This a bug fix release. Details are on the history page. Go to the beta download page to get it.

 
DansGuardian 2.9.9.7 is released! Mon, 18 Aug 2008

This fixes a small bug with PID file creation. Details are on the history page. Go to the beta download page to get it.

 

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