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Terry Pack	11th November 2007
"I am a senior IT Security engineer for a Fortune 50 company. Keeping employees from surfing porn has been more difficult to date than keeping my children from doing so. I think it has something to do with living in a cubicle. I know this won't last for long, though, so I was glad to hear good things about your program. Once I get this going, I may drop a tip in your jar. I appreciate the effort in keeping an open source solution out there, and I wish you luck with your corporate endeavors, as well. "
John Clare	31st October 2007
"Thank you for such a great product. I'm in the Coast Guard and the command wanted content filtering on my proposed wifi. It is far superior to Smart Filter (the service the CG uses). We have an overnight crew on call for search and rescue and now thanks to you we can get online! John Clare, Air Station San Francisco "
David Field	18th May 2007
"Top software, i'm not one to put all my eggs in one basket, and since converting our Juniper firewall to a router, i wanted to have a web filtering service independent of the hardware. Easy to setup, was up and running in an hour, and just testing the finer points of the service right now for launch next week. Having use Websense and Barracuda stems previously, this is easier to configure, and more versitle.. "
Jayden Phillips	25th February 2007
"Great program. It is used at a christian school K-9 This is the best content filter we have ever used. We have it set up so all staff have bypass links on there block pages. Works really well no problems at all. Highly recommended for schools!!!"
Mike	15th January 2007
"Thank you very much for creating this project. I've built this system for a local school. Previously they installed Net Nanny and it was a nightmare. I built a similar system in '05 with FC4 on an AMD duron 800 chip, 128 ram & 8 gig HD. "
ingo eismann www.stuttgart.de/stadtbuecherei	20th December 2006
"thanks a lot for this great program! it really helps a lot against all types of unwanted stuff; it even helped to reduce the the virus/malware/...-load on the few legacy windoze-clients we still have to (almost) zero while it's still very flexible. the server will get upgraded to better hardware in the near future. ingo eismann, [systems administrator of the stuttgart public libraries] "
Tom Cooper	30th November 2006
"I want you to know how happy I am to be a user of Dansguardian. I have several kids, and appreciate being able to easily control their access to internet sites. I really love that the contextual weighting allows dynamic blocking of content, so I don't have to rely on constantly out of date blacklists. I'm in the process of moving dansguardian to Mac OS (Tiger) and I look forward to having that work well. Because of this I can decommission my Linux server. Pretty cool! I can't believe that all of this is *free* for personal use. My family owes a debt of gratitude to you. Thank you VERY much."
Chris Nighswonger www.foundations.edu	21st November 2006
"We are in the process of testing/tuning DG for use on our campus network to handle content filtering for a K-12 academy, college/graduate school/seminary, and staff/faculty. So far things are running very smoothly. We appriciated all of the work that has gone into this excelent software! "
Matthew	10th November 2006
"Stop being such jerks, let us look at porn "
anonymous	8th October 2006
"i hate this dum thing u stupid losers it wrecked the computer and i cant install squat "
merl boblet	26th August 2006
"i hate u it is just like having an overprotective mom pussy "
Dave Bixler	8th August 2006
"Thank you SO much. You have helped give me peace of mind knowing that my children are seeing a lot less shit on the internet. I have tested this product a lot and used it now for several years. Thank you again. "
Matt Stedman	8th August 2006
"Brilliant, keeps the kids safe at home and looking at implementing it at work (High School with residents) as the existing commercial windows filter has huge flaws!! "
Jeff	26th May 2006
"youre stupid blocker makes it so i cant get into certain sites at school. it works to damn good. make it crappier "
Andrew Bennison http://www.fisher.co.uk/	3rd April 2006
"Were using SurfControl, they dropped support for Linux so we started to look for an alternative. Found DansGuardian and were very impressed by its ease of use and features."
Philip Christian http://www.christiantena.co.uk/	19th March 2006
"Suppose that you have a Windows machine and no other machine available to run DansGuardian on; I installed CoOperative Linux from colinux.org onto my Windows machine then I installed squid and DansGuardian into colinux, then I set up Firefox and IE on Windows to use a proxy server that is in fact the colinux instance, and it works really nicely. colinux isn't running a virtual processor like other virtual OSes, and so takes little more cpu away from Windows than a native application you probably have to use Internet Connection Sharing (to a virtual LAN with colinux on it) if you don't have a broadband router, but I'm pretty sure that it will work. I am very impressed with DansGuardian by the way for the following reasons: 1. better than we-blocker (too slow). 2. better than niamo (it just kills the browser if it detects bad content) most impressive that it can sit in a (sort of) virtual machine with only 64M RAM."
Franklin Road Academy http://www.frapanthers.com/	10th March 2006
"We have Dansguardian running on 2 identical servers (load balancing) for a campus with 150+ faculty and staff as well as almost 1,000 students (a third of whom have their own laptop computers and are online much of the day). We had already been running iptables and squid, and Dansguardian fit seamlessly into the mix and has worked beautifully. It was easy to set up and configure. We've never had problems with latency, and love the control we have over the settings. We're looking forward to version 3. Thanks for a great product!"
Goetz Schultz http://goetz.co.uk/	6th March 2006
"Thanks to DG is my daughter doing homework rather than hanging in chatrooms. Also the amount of "crap" lyrics from "artists" like 50Cents or Eminem has gone significant down. This also applies to the bandwith as the streams are blocked. Very impressive piece of work."
Dan	4th March 2006
"Even though Dansguardian is included with the FreeBSD 6.0 Ports collection, we are still required to download either the .gz or source files to install. This isn't the easiest thing to do since we're not using any GUIs and finding the correct source is a challenge in Lynx. Wget nets nothing - the URL discribed in the message is a dead-end. We sincerely hope Dansguardian is better accommodated on FreeBSD in the near future. Yes, we've written to the FreeBSD folks as well. Other than that, Dansguardian is a superior product and we use it at every one of our network bridgeheads. It is well designed, easy to maintain, and is absolutely dependable. I have been in the software/IT industry for 16 years and am no an easy person to impress in this area. Dansguardian is probably the most well-written, well-thought-out, and well maintained open source application I have ever seen. Keep up the excellent work!"
Felix Kaechele http://www.landrat-lucas.de/	24th February 2006
"We use DG for makeing the web secure in our 1600+ students school. German law obligates us to filter the web access we provide for our students. A local company even donated us hardware with a commercial web-filter installed. Nevertheless we use DG and Linux because it's so much better. It's amazingly accurate, fast and extremely easy to work with. Thanks a lot for this great product! Greetings from Leverkusen, Germany!"
Shannon Kuchler http://inflecto.org/	11th February 2006
"We have a 9 and 13 year old daughter and a 10 year old son. We have been looking for an internet content filter that could help us but not break the bank. DansGuardian is a breeze to use and has so many usefull options. DansGuardian is the best product I've seen to date. Please keep up the great work. I'm very proud to say DansGuardian is standing guard between the web and are children."
Kevin Hall	8th February 2006
"Excellent product. I installed it once I started getting some interesting Google searches on my kids laptop, and have since had comments from the Baby sitter that they also have hit the banned page. Its good to know that its there. "
Michael Dickey http://dickeys.org/	3rd January 2006
"DansGuardian does a great job keeping my primary school kids from (unintentionally or intentionally) browsing sites they have no business on. Customization of phrase lists and blocked/allowed sites is extremely easy. Thanks for a great product!"
Mark Rogers http://www.rogers-ranch.com/	19th December 2005
"I use DansGuardian for our home network, it has been working great, with no problems at all. The ease of configuration is a real plus. Having dealt with head-aches from other products at the job, it makes managing my home network easier. With young children in the house, DansGuardian has allowed me to put Linux desktop upstairs, with realative confidence. Which is more than I can say about the shrink wrapped product we use at the scholl district where I work."
Michael J. Pawlowsky	3rd December 2005
"I've been using DG for a couple of years now to keep my 9 yo daughter away from web content they would make her uncomfortable. It is very much appreciated and I simply wanted to say thanks. "
Jason Hodge - Berean Baptist Church and Christian Academy http://www.berean-baptist-utah.com/	1st November 2005
"Thanks a Million! We are using it for our school and church, both in and out of the office. Works great and is easy to configure. "
Thom Price	22nd October 2005
"I love the filtering. I'm a consultant, working with many companies. I know you can't publish this but I love the fact that it can distinguis, out of the box, the difference between "Pussy Galore" (actually used in quotes, to specify the James Bond female character with the flowery name) in a Search engine and pussy galore (without the quotes, as though someone wanted to find those things). It allows the James Bond female character but denies the potentially explosive search for many images of a particular body part."
Sean P. http://www.cooslibraries.org	22nd September 2005
"Outstanding product! Hats off to Dan and all involved. Stability, ease of use, and full filtering control make this hard to pass up. thank you! "
Tim Bates	10th August 2005
"Very impressive. This is really gonna annoy some of the students at the school I work for... No more flash games or downloading music. :)"
Kyle Hultman - Southside Community Hospital http://sch-farmville.org/	27th July 2005
"I've really come to be a big fan of dansguardian. We're a non-profit hospital, so using free and open source software has really helped up. I've extended the DansGuardian functionality with our own interface, and given our department directors the ability to control where their employees can go on the internet."
Jeff O'Hara http://www.cusd200.org	2nd May 2005
"Dansguardian is great, when our Bess server melted last week I put in DansGuardian and Squid and I don't think we are going to look back. I am extremely happy with the blocking. Much faster than our Bess server."
Franklin Road Academy http://www.frapanthers.com	8th February 2005
"We've just implemented DG at our school (K-12). We already had dual firewalls running Squid, and adding DansGuardian to the mix was really simple. I'm impressed at how well it works. I was concerned about latency but it is fast and smooth. It is not only much cheaper than the commercial product we were using, but easier to configure and tweak."
Bruce http://3rdrealm.homelinux.net	4th February 2005
"I really love this software as it provides a real comfort when the family uses the internet. You have made an excellent product and I have done many installs for friends and they love it too. Keep up the fantastic work!!!"
Pat St. John http://azseals.org	2nd February 2005
"Awesome application, evern better that it's provided to us for free. You've got my vote.. I've even pushed Corporate Guardian to many of my clients who are looking for good filtering applications. "
Tom Cooper	16th January 2005
"I use this at home to protect my toddlers, my wife, and myself from porn, advertising, and obnoxioud business sites. I have found it to be easy to use, it requires little maintenance, and it works consistently. I am VERY pleased with this. I don't worry about my toddlers accidently clicking on something I don't want them to see. It's so easy to reconfigure that when I find a site that I don't want them to see, I can easily block it. When we find a site that is blocked that we want to do business with (My wife does a good bit of web-shopping - it's easier than toting three toddlers around) it's trivial to reconfigure the application to open up that site. You've done excellent work on this, and I appreciate it greatly. Thanks! "
Dwayne Lister http://www.auto-fibre.co.uk	12th December 2004
"This implimentation is currently protecting my home network, and it just gets better & better. Well done, thanks."
Lynn Jordon II	12th December 2004
"The Information Systems Department at the Naval Support Activity in Naples, Italy is using your DansGuardian software on their network (hundreds of clients). I was suprised to see that they are not using software from a commercial vendor. It is nice to see that more government entities using open source software. Cheers!"
tony george http://www.bigbrownbeaver.com	18th November 2004
"beautiful, just beautiful. works wonders for my kids, with multi level based on username, even better."
Gonzalo Vera	5th October 2004
"After trying several personal and server filters I just fell in love with DansGuardian. Now I'm "preaching" it and several friends are turning into fans."
Chito S. Flores	4th September 2004
"his Work (DANSGUARDIAN)is truly a noble work and work of GOODWILL. The author is truly concerned with the welfare of children and the families. I salute sincerely the author and the staff that made this program possible. More power to you and your staff. Although literally I am a poor man from a poor country, I give what I can give best, morally. Prayers for the author, the staff and their families. This might not mean much now, but surely it will in time. THANK YOU. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. "
Peter Guthrie	3rd August 2004
"Another excellent open source project, right up there with Linux, Samba, MySQL, etc. Very easy to integrate with Squid. It could only be easier if there was RH9.0 binary packages but in truth building from source was simple and quick anyway. So far in testing it has been rock solid. "
Jacques Theys	31st July 2004
"I am in charge of the network of our secondary school. We want to offer the students a free but secure access to Internet. We needed a filtering proxy that would be rock solid and reliable. We have been using DG for one year and are happy with it. Its filtering capabilities outpass those of commercial utilities, and offer great flexibility. Moreover, DG does not introduce much latency, and runs perfectly well on our Linux server. A nice piece of software ! "
Dane Elwell http://www.birchwoodhigh.warrington.sch.uk	28th June 2004
"Currently using DG to filter internet traffic for a school with over 300 XP clients (usually 150-250 concurrent). Migrating current DG server from FC2 to Debian or Gentoo over the summer holidays. (Working in a school means we can't do anything too much until the kids are all off over the summer.) We've never seen a filter so good as this one. The kids all hate it - which means it's doing a bloody good job. Regex filtering is enough to make me recommend it to anyone just for that. There is no better filter, period. "
Matthew Ratcliffe http://users.bigpond.com/matthew.ratcliffe	22nd June 2004
"Am using DansGuard for blocking those explicit popups that open millions of popups. I am using it in conjunction with squid 2.5 (stable) and it is running flawlessly. It is running on an old P2 300mhz, 196mb PC133 SDRAM and 15Gb Hard disk space. Runs beautifully and i especially like not having to restart dansguardian after adding a site to the 'naughty' list. I had it setup and working in about 3hrs and i have very little knowledge about proxy's and filtering so i was quite impressed. I highly reccommend it for commercial and home use. "
Philip Pearce http://www.e2bn.net	21st June 2004
"Our configuration is a test server in our broadband core, which will be used by a small number of schools to trial DanGuardian filtering. If successful we will investigate supporting it's use thoughout the region's schools and libraries. So far DG seems to knock spots off any commercial product we have looked at! "
Ruohonen	8th June 2004
"Great Job. I'm using this to filter traffic at my home. My childrens (3) has all it's own computer and free access to Internet. So to give a slight cover where to surf or what pages to access I'm using you. Previously I had SquidGuard and I must say this DandGuardian gives a totally new angle to configure it the way I like. I myself could see a big benefit to have "proper" web or some other sort of GUI in which to configure it. Best wishes and keep on good work."
Ivan Rojas http://www.igrojas.net/	5th April 2004
"I have been looking for a solution like this for home so I can teach my children how to use the net and its resources without having to be looking over their shoulders when they do anything I taught them. Now I just sit at the console of my linux box and change the "rules" to make it as tight as it needs to be while the kids go and do their stuff on their computer. I just go and check how are they doing once in a while, this keeps them motivated to self-learning (no one likes daddy watching over what "I know already" ;-) ). Thanks to all the contributors and to the creator of this useful and most needed solution. Ciao!!"
John Rink http://www.mcgrathauto.com/	30th March 2004
"It's almost perfect out of the box. I'm going to try it out on an old 400 mhz server with gentoo next."
Jason A Younes http://www.dsstitle.com/	25th March 2004
"Great piece of software.. I have limited Linux experience and was able to easily get i installed and configured for our network. thanks for providing this software to the community."
Alek http://au66.com/	20th March 2004
"Being a nerd of sorts I have a home network with a FreeBSD gateway. My 6 year old has a PC in his room ... start them early I say. When I discovered him doing a Google search for "games" I thought it was time to tighten things up a little. I spent one hour configuring and 4 hours trying to bypass the filters. DansGaurdian scored 100% - I kid you not. It is a truly excellent product. THANKYOU! "
Kevin Tsang http://www.thetsangs.net/	3rd March 2004
"I have been looking for something like this for my kids for a very long time. I have tried to use squidGuard alone in the past, but you know how hard it is to keep up with bad sites manually!! Thanks for all the hard work! Markham, ON, Canada "
Joseph McWilliams http://www.joespicsproductions.com/	29th February 2004
"I have had trouble with getting squidguard to work but this worked like a charm with the RPM. It does just what I wanted, GREAT PROGRAM."
Asad Quraishi http://skyesystems.com/	26th February 2004
"I'm impressed by the sophistication of this software! I have just begun to use it but so far it has seemed pretty straight forward. I have, however, been able to fool it on its strictest setting by doing image searches through google. So far only soft porn has squeeked by. One site was oriental in nature. I realise that catching all of these is expecting too much. I appreciate the work you've done and agree that this is a good way to prevent accidental access or casual access by younger children but that it doesn't replace parental supervision. Cheers and thanks for the great product."
Jon Fautley http://www.3ait.co.uk/	18th February 2004
"Dan, most excellent! We had about 60 Windows2000/WindowsXP PC's that kept getting attacked by spyware/etc because the users kept downloading porn... installed dansguardian, and the problems have gone away :) "
Travis Mehrer http://www.ravingnerd.net/	18th February 2004
"DansGuardian is absolutely excellent. It has allowed me to not only customize exactly what I want to see in my browser (content wise) but also protect my LAN and those using it from some of the evils one runs into on the web today. Not only can I specify exactly which pages I don't want, but DG does a really great job of deciding on the one's you haven't found yet! DansGuardian++ Thanks for a great product, and keep up the excellent work. "
Tom Armistead http://tom.armisteads.com/	19th January 2004
"This is an excellent product! It was easy to setup and has been easy to use. Performance is good on a PIII/500 box. I'm using this as part of transparent proxy with squid and iptables. I'm very happy!"
Dwi Chandra http://www.curtin.edu.my/	13th January 2004
"Nice and smooth to use :) Easy installation steps and short stages to make it up and running properly."
Andreas Kasper http://www.samba-linux.de/	12th January 2004
"This is a really great content filtering programm :-))"
Andrew Chandler http://www.holycrossprep.co.uk/	10th January 2004
"Very simple to setup and configure. No complaints whatsoever."
Eric Sooter http://www.ccs-cpc.org/	5th January 2004
"Installation and configuration is not for a novice user, but it seems to be doable."
Robert Hale	1st January 2004
"I have been using squidGuard to protect the children's PC's browsing, but DansGuardian looks so much better."
Father Blaise	31st December 2003
"This by far is the best web filter out there. Thank you very much!"
Mike Wagner http://www.mccesc.k12.oh.us/	29th December 2003
"DansGuardian is a great resource for IT administrators on a low budget, especially in a school system. Thank YOU!!!!!"
Rob French http://www.cosmic.org.uk/	20th December 2003
"I use the commercial Smoothwall Corp at work, very impressed with Dansguardian at home so far, Well done Daniel."
Andy Stewart Frankton-Lapel Community Schools (Indiana)	19th December 2003
"Replaced BorderManager/SurfPatrol with Squid/DansGuardian. Exceptional software with exceptional results."
Tom Smith	8th December 2003
"Thanks for this great software! I have been using it at home to keep my kids out of trouble!"
Paul Mills edgecumbecollege.school.nz	2nd December 2003
"All in all a great product, found that it controls 99% of the students."
Darren Wiebe	2nd December 2003
"Thank you for this excellent product. I have checked out numerous other filtering products. I have not discovered anything that comes close to this service."
Matt Warner	28th November 2003
"I'm using it on my local system (Mac OS X) with Squid to provide filtering for my family. I was impressed that DG relies on several different facilities to filter, including on-the-fly parsing of content. This seems like a much more thorough approach than some of the other products I've seen. Perhaps the biggest selling point for me is that it is an application that works with any OS, including the Unix-derived OS X."
Bruno Germain	28th November 2003
"All the bells and whistles without the fluff. Compact and customizable. Great product all together. Thanks."
Greg Crawford	13th November 2003
"I used it til a couple of weeks ago when my drive cratered. I have never worried about what my kids might stumble onto. You really deserve a great deal of credit."
Donald Weakland	22nd September 2003
"This is hands down the best product for filtering. The customization is amazing, and applying it to a public library thanks to CIPA (children's internet protection act) is phenomenal, I just wish we could somehow advertise it more. A free filter that works like this is amazing!! "
Adam Zamora	19th September 2003
"With a relatively painless install, DG should be just the ticket to keep my kids from the squatters who like to camp out at the doors of kids web sites. Thanks Dan! "
Jim Henning	18th September 2003
"I found the package from www.osxgnu.com easy to install. As a internet help desk technical support person, I would recomend this to my friends and others who ask me on a constant basis what I would recomend to do to protect children from open internet access."
Nelson Rio Jr.	8th September 2003
"We are running a school with graders and high school both accessing the internet. I came across the name of DansGuardian while I was searching the net for "filtering" software compatible with Squid®. So I went to the web page and started to read all the user feedback. I couldn'y believe the comments so I tried it myself. WOW! If you're really looking for a very, very versatile filtering software, I highly recommend DansGuardian. And kudos to your free software for educational use."
Ian Williams Denmark	6th September 2003
"Having only installed it today, I can't think of anything negative - I'm highly impressed so far."
John Moss Glasgow, UK	4th September 2003
"It works a treat and keep bairns away from things they shouldnae see."
Kevin Padgham gbholidayparks.co.uk	1st September 2003
"Low maintenance, high avaliability.., what more can I say? thankyou for a fantastic piece of software! "
Jayraj	23rd August 2003
"It really works! At least for now and as I wished. I have been looking for some kind of web content filter not url filter from a long time. Because in this era of raw high speed internet access, It is very crucial to keep watch what is poping up from your search result and especially it is more important when our kids are on net. I have tried several other softwares (Not commercial, all those available under GPL) But disappointed with url filtering only. The problem with squidguard is it's dumb robot generated blacklist. I don't know how much dansguardian is relying on it, But with squidguard there were all those non english websites that i used to surf and those are actually clean websites. That stuck me in editing black list by required websites. It is though a great list and excellent work. But i wanted something that actually scans the resulting page and do daddy's job. I tried dansguardian just as another one, with prebuild RPM on generic redhat linux 9. And it worked just as i needed. Even i did not configure a bit! I could not stop my self to write this feedback. It's a great job. Every parent will love it. I still have to explore other options so i must conclude with " It works!!!" "
Michael	4th August 2003
"10Mb/s Ethernet WAN connection Intel 2.0Ghz 1.5GB SDRAM 1x40GB 7.2K for OS + /tmp + /var + swap 2x40GB 7.2K for /cache (stripped) Dual Intel Pro 100+ S Server was build from scratch in 3 hours (after the 2 windows ISA servers failed), it now supports ~20,000 students a year and 800 staff. Has done 278,000 hits an hour no problems. It is blocking beautifully with the blacklist, performance is rather good, stablity is also good. Even staff are impressed when i told them how much it cost, and how it determines which pages to block. Got a nice funky block page, and not too many people have complained about what it blocked. Well done. I've been recommending this to everyone who will listen. "
Kevin Johnson	3rd August 2003
"This is just want I wanted. Works wonderfully I couldn't ask for much more. I'm currently set DG up on my home network with 4 kids around this definately gives my some peace of mind. I definately like the true content filtering that DG provides. I will soon be purchasing corporate version for my ISP http://www.u-r-on.net/ to add as a value added service. Thanks Again, Kevin "
Steve Warner	25th July 2003
"Have found this software very easy to use especially via a webmin module. It is quicker for us to filter out any site or enable a site without resorting to ISP etc. Would recommend to any school to stop time wasting on the Internet. "
S Doyle	23th July 2003
"This is a GREAT product. My hearty thanks for your efforts. I am securing my home network and this product is just what I was looking for. The configuration was a snap, and the installation was clean. With some of the other products I have tried to get to work, this is even more appreciated. After I get set up, I will look at a subscription for your blacklist download."
Allen Davidson	8th July 2003
"Excellent product. Thank you for creating a free filtering software that works better than the commercial products. "
Randy H	26th May 2003
"This is used in a home environment. Currently I have 2 PC running NetNanny and DansGuardian filtered pages not caught by NN. "
Ryan Ferguson	22nd May 2003
"I just installed RedHat 9.0, Squid 2.4, DG 2.4.6-8 and with the help of the rpm's for Red Hat, I had this proxy content filter server running in one day. I still of course need to tune it. I only had a problem with compiling the source for DG so I had to use the rpm which worked fine. We are a school and I tested some of the filtering out and think this will work perfect for us. Thanks, our alternatives would have never filtered this good."
Chris Irish	5th May 2003
"I'm using this for my childrens primary school which is on a very low budget and all IT support provided by parenbts. Very impressed with the weighted phraselist feature. I feel maintaining blacklists is an impossible task and this is a more practical alternative. Started with the defaults which resulted in many legit sites being blocked but this provided useful re-assurance for the head mistress. The machine we are using Cyrix PR 166 is just about sufficient- fortunatley the benefit of the caching just about outweighes the delay introduced. Hope to upgrade to something faster in due course. "
cindyo St. Mary's Catholic School	31st March 2003
"As a volunteer charged with maintianing a network for a very small private school, Dans Guardian has been a real time saver. This is an excellent piece of software for schools. The usage and maintenance has been virually trouble free. Thank you for making this available for schools! "
Allan de Borde Southport College, UK	21st March 2003
"Although not yet fully implemented for all users, this seems the ideal solution for our college. The functionality to block specific file types is most useful. DansGuardian is highly configurable and will probably replace a commercial product that we currently use on our other gateway in the near future."
Andy	20th March 2003
"Very good filter, nothing can ever be 100% but I have tried it at length and think it ideal for my kids browsing activities; I am however a relative Linux Newbie so a WebGUI would be great, but I have persevered nevertheless and got it working in its simplest form. Thanks"
Matt Hamilton	13th March 2003
"This is the best package I have ever installed on my system. I have 3 small children who are growing and will become ever more curious and adventurous with the internet. Now I have at least some peace of mind that they won't be bombarded with inappropriate material the minute I walk away and am not watching them. As much as I hate Windows, I do have friends who only using Windows and am wondering if there are any plans for a Windows port? I'm tempted to just tell them to blow the dust off an old unused computer sitting in the corner of their house to bring linux up with DansGuarding and it can be a sealed proxy box."
Matthew Wood ph.mwood@ecclesbourne.derbyshire.sch.uk	2003
"I hate u !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! U have banned everything in the school"
Paul Simons	2003
"I have four teenaged children on my home network, so I wanted serious lockdown. I've been running dansguardian for a year now and my children hate it! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for a well thought out product that allows me to trust that my children's World Wide Web experience is the best it can be."
Simon Redwood	2003
"I am a great believer in kids having free run of the net, and have always been extremely aware of the content that canbe found. Eventually I have found something that seems to allow me to limit the content whilst giving them free reign."
Scott Hill	2003
"We were using Microsoft ISA server, after much disappointment, we tried squid with DansGuardian. After getting through the initial install and rule setups, of squid and DansGuardian, we were very impressed, with the stability and ease of rules changes."
Pedro Fortuny Ayuso	2003
"Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful."
David Graham	2003
"New Kent County Public Schools, New Kent Virginia was using CyberPatrol for filtering on a Netware Bordermanager server. CyberPatrols' subscription price was astronomical, and DID NOT provide the level of filtering that DansGuardian does. DansGuardian is by far the best filtering software available."
Steven Friedrich	2002
"I am a programmer and work from home where I run a largish (for a home) network. I also have a large homeschooled family (10 kids) and have been using transparent proxy with Squid and a combination of BESS (n2h2.com) and local include/exclude regexps and whitelists and Sleezeball (substitutes your own gif for ads). (Also, using spamassassin which I highly and header/content regexp filtering with Postfix). My ISP recently told me that they would not be renewing their BESS subscription. I found DansGuardian and haven't looked back! Much better performance, much more configurable. I'm using DG in conjunction with all the other software and scripts now instead of BESS. DG fits right in. Fantastic. I'll be sending in payment to encourage development."
Joe Whipple	2002
"EXCELLENT!! I have a watchguard firewall with webblocker and this seems on par if not exceeding the same quality. Good job!"
A pupil in .gov.bc.ca	2002
"this site is g*y my school uses it ans it sucks,it wont tlet us on anything i just thought i would tell you that you s*ck f**k you "
David Martens	2002
"DansGuardian has entirely changed the way our students are able to use the internet. We've tried many different internet filtering options on our campus, and DansGuardian is by far the most stable and easily configured."
Jimmy Myrick	2002
"I switched from IGear to DansGuardian and prefer DansGuardian by far. I was cautious at first and ran both for a while. After seeing the performance increase, greater granular control, easier configurability, robust content filtering, much lower price, and improved stability that DansGuardian offered, I switched the entire network within a week. I haven't looked back and am *extremely* pleased with the move. I need to give Squid a little pat on the back too (good job Squid), because it is an important element in my deployment as well. The only thing I miss from IGear is the ability to use NTLM authentication and apply controls/logging based on those groups/users. I certainly don't miss the memory leaks, arrogant support, price, and numerous frequent reboots."
John Humphrey	2002
"Just wanted to let you know we have just recently switched from Novell Border Manager 3.7/CyberPatrol to DansGuardian 2.4.4 on RedHat 7.2 with Squid 2.4. We love it!!!!!!!!!! This is the best filtering software I have personally used. We have it on three boxes with our main one being a Compaq 1600R 6/550 1G RAM. This blows the doors off BM 3.7 w/CyberPatrol hands down!!!! For one thing with Squid 2.4 at least we do not have to restart the darn BM proxy at least once a day! :-) The last straw with the CyberPatrol (Other than the 10K cost) was when we found it did not even block hustler.com, even though we had all of the Porno settings active and were doing auto updates from them at least one a week to their ACL. The interface is simple and *very* easy with Webmin. We have had it up for about 3 months now and are not looking back. Thanks for a super product!"
Matt Chapman	2002
"BTW: It is interesting how much "spyware" is stopped with DG. I have thousands of requests at night when people leave there machines on trying to get to gator.com and other offenders and of course they are blocked. I am then submitting the ip addresses to the perspective schools and letting them run Ad-Aware on the machines to help clean them up. Very cool. XStop was never this cool! And neither was Smartfilter. And Daniel buddy, the idiots from Websense (the most expensive filter) called Friday and I told them we are filtering for FREE and they need to go away and take their so called filter back to the drawing table... and maybe GPL it!"
Eric Zerangue	2002
"I just want to say that I like your product very much.. I haven't had much time to test it out and see what I don't like about it, as I've just installed it. But so far so good.. Easy install, works nicely. If you are looking to compete with Websense and such, you do need to support firewalls. I don't know if you do or not, but in the future if you plan to start selling it, that would be wise. Another thought would be the ability to log attempts to a database later on down the road. I've used websense before, and I like that your program works on actual page content, not a list of blocked web pages. Just wanted to give you a thumbs up on this. Keep up the good work!"
David D. Nelson	2002
"DansGuardian gives me far MORE control over things than CyberPatrol for Netware does. I like that. It has been well worth the learning of Linux to use DG. Thank you."
Glayde Coleman Cvc Online, CA, USA	2002
"We actually have been using your software for several months now, we were using Netfilter. I can't begin to tell you how much better your software is than the others. We looked for several years, using Netfilter then even looking at the outragous priced ones and none were as good. Thank You for your product, may your company prosper for years to come."
Correia David France	2002
"Many thanks it's very good and very simple to install (it works at the first time). I've just installed in my nework to test and I think I will protect some clients with this very good solution."
Sky Cree	2002
"I work for a non-profit that uses DG for our labs. I do not know what I would do without your software. I have made a request to my supervisors to make a donation to your organization."
Frank Mogaddedi	2002
"I love Dansguardian! It's better than anything I've seen on the commercial market - keeps my kids from "bad" sites and keeps the darnded ads from me."
Allan Gomes Brazil .gov.br	2002
"Congratulations ! The DansGuardian are Great ! (and sorry for my english...)"
Darren Williams	2002
"...I just want to thank you for the best filtering product available. I have just managed to talk my boss into using Dansguardian rather than an expensive alternative (Content Keeper). I also have 7 primary schools to look after that just do not have the budgets needed for more expensive and, in my opinion, inferior products but obviously need the excellent protection offered by your product."
Peter Kilsgaard	2002
"Was tired of SurfControl, installed it in 1 Hour, (including e-smith), and it haven't been down since."
Rocky Marquiss	2002
"The flexibility of the software is very good - and while there wasn't an RPM available for my distribution - the installation was painless. I highly recommend it to anybody needing a filter."
Kevin O'Connor Rainford High Technology College	2002
"Clean simple install and with the webmin module makes for a simple but effective and flexable system. Maybe I can get teachers to use it :)"
Michael Liles Linux / Network Tech - Isle of Wight County Schools	2002
"About 4 months ago we were using I-Gear for our internet content filtering. It was problematic and one day while Symantec's licensing server was down, I set out to find an alternative. Since that very day we have been running DansGuardian (I installed RedHat and had it running on a box in about an hour)... I got DansGuardian running on the Sun and that has been our system ever since. We have not had any problems. Thanks for such a great product, keep up the good work."
Robert Irwin	2002
"...it way surpasses a lot of commercial 'banlist only' products as it allows the kids to use webmail without me panicking that they're getting offensive stuff through it. conf files well structured and easy to follow compared to some monsters like samba. Increased number of flash 'enhanced' sites is a worry though. Popup killing is no.1 request now though."
Alex Lane	2002
"The logging is excellent and the way I can have whitelists and blacklist is extremely flexible. I installed and enabled all blacklist (Downloaded the sample blacklist you offer), then I used the access.log to see why certain things were blocked and I worked my way through from there on. It's great. If the access.log wasn't so simple to understand I would have had a hard time setting it up."
SB	2002
"I started using DansGuardian in earnest yesterday. I work at a College, and since the kids here decided to trash their common room, it's been locked so they've spent most of their time in the computer rooms playing web-based games and using chatlines. I put a couple of 'http_access deny' directives in squid.conf to cut out the most obvious things, like 'games' and 'chat' in the URL. The response was 'OK, if we can't use chat or play games, we'll surf porn instead.' So that's what happened. I extracted the names of about 100 sites from the access.log file yesterday evening, some of them extreme hardcore. (I'd like to point out that there hasn't been a web proxy at the College before, hence it was difficult if not impossible to monitor which sites were being visited by students.) I installed DG in less than 10 minutes (froman RPM) and hacked the phrase list for a while. I'm pleased to say it now blocks > 95% of the sites on that list, and I'm fairly sure I can tweak the rules some more to make it more effective. So, thanks for the *superb* program :)"
GSW	2002
"Thank You, You have made my Family very happy......And my wife and I feel better about our 5 and 12 year olds using the Internet....."
D. Maynard	2002
"Thanks for a GREAT piece of software! Now I have an alternative to Windows/Norton Internet Security!!!""
Steve Switzer	2002
"Absolutely awesome! The other windoze based filters are overpriced and underperform. You can't beat free with DansGuardian! I plan to register anyhow when it's in my budget, since it works so well."
Jarrod MacFarlane	2002
"...me and the boss are getting called nearly on a weekly basis by content filtering companies/resellers who want to sell their stuff, mostly NT/2000 only, and they all just about fall over when they hear DG is free (mostly) and how well it is working.. :) - Good work!"
Tim Strother Assistant Systems Administrator, Augusta-Richmond County Public Library	2002
"We have been using DansGuardian for about 3 months now to meet the CIPA requirements and to be perfectly honest, it equals or exceeds many of the 'pay to filter' filters out there. Thanks for a great filter Dan."
Adam Kennedy	2002
"DansGuardian is a great alternative to CyberPatrol and N2H2's products. Given another year or so, DG could very well take over the world! Or at least it could have a good grasp on the content filtering world =)"
Craig Sawyer	2002
"So far I'm thoroughly enjoying DansGuardian, and would recommend it thoroughly. If anyone is thinking about moving, I've used Websense, Xstop, squidGuard in the past with moderate success, but none of them were as nice as DansGuardian. Thanks again."
Aaron Woehler	2002
"I am very pleased with DansGuardians performance. We switched over from CyberPatrol which was crashing our Novell server. Logging mechanism and configuration are excellent as well as progress in product development. Thanks."
Ric Wadsworth	2002
"Cor that was quick and easy to set up.....ooh it's really easy to customise too, thanks."
Rob T	2002
"Engineering firm near Grand Rapids, MI currently testing Dansguardian to replace costly Novell Bordermanager proxy server and CyberPatrol. Currently using squid 2.4-STABLE-3. Very happy with performance and filtering abilities of DansGuardian. However users are not happy with our strict filtering policy, too bad for them. :) CyberPatrol is a joke compared to this filter. Never again! Thank you for such a great product!"
Matthew Kennedy	2002
"DansGuardian has been just awesome for the school I administer. Other commercial filtering products don't even come close. Been using it since October 2001, and never looked back. Your code has made a lot of parents and teachers happy! Thanks."
Ric Luney	2002
"Without any Linux / UNIX experience I have deployed DansGuarian (with a little help)."
Kevin Gilpin Lancaster Royal Grammar School	2001
"This is a great software package. It is easy to manage and simple and easy to setup. It is a credit to the person who thought about and wrote the program. There should be more programs like this for schools."
Tim Sykes	2001
"Have just completed an install of your content filtering software, DansGuardian, at a school in Melbourne Australia... they are absolutely delighted with the software. Good job."
Freddie Cash	2001
"We are running DansGuardian 2.2.1 coupled with Squid, Apache, Sendmail, AMaViS, InoculateIT, SquirrelMail, UW-IMAP, and ProFTPd on RedHat Linux 6.2. These proxy boxes range from Pentium 166 MHz/128 MB RAM/4 GB HD/1 client up to Pentium-!!! 866 MHz/256 MB RAM/30 GB HD/200+ clients. No problems to date with these servers other than user complaints about the filters being too restrictive. :) Great work, Daniel."
Don Watkins	2001
"We're a small rural K-12 school district in Western New York State. We needed to comply with Children's Internet Protection Act and this really does the job for us. I have used Squidguard before and this is better in my opinion because of the content filtering. This is a great solution and I'd recommend it highly.""
Bryan Dyson	2001
"DG has worked great. Using it with Intel PII 266MMX, 4.5Gb IDE HS with 256Mb RAM and a 128kbit ISDN connection. We got rid of squidGuard and it increased our speed by about .25. Daniel keep up the great work!"
Steve Sobka Roscomare Road School, Los Angeles California	2001
" We run DG on a Dell PowerEdge 2300, Dual P2-400's, 256megs ram, running in conjunction with AdZap to filter advertising. DansGuardian replaced our $2000 'so called' CyberPatrol filter after they told us that it would cost $900 per year to keep our database current. Being a public school meant that a 'subscription' type service was out of the question, hence DansGuardian... Thanks from all the students at Roscomare."
Steve Sobka	2001
"I thank you for saving me from having to pay some ripoff $@#$@#$ software company $2000 (US) for some stupid program that did less than half of what your software does. Oh, and did I mention they wanted a $900/year support fee to keep the software updated... #@$@#@@#%$ I love how large corporations like to shaft the schools(!) Cheers!"
Jarrod MacFarlane	2001
"I'm quite new to DG .. I installed DG 2 yesterday and must say it looks quite excellent! After having someone from Surf Control peddle their AU $10k+ filter that requires NT and big hardware that uses *only* a known 'bad list' .. I must say I like DG!"
DW Right Aurora Schools	2001
"DansGuardian has proven to be an effective web filter for our school. Combined with squidGuard I was able to block over 97% of all sites I tested."
Brian J. McManus	2001
"We are currently running DansGuardian 1.1.5 at Bliss School District. The school district is small (with only a couple of 100 in the high school), but since it is so small, and its growth rate is so small, we get a lot of grants and funding. The computer ratio is about 1 computer per 2 or 3 students. Due to the new e-rate bill passed by congress, any school that receives e-rate funding has to filter. DansGuardian is an excellent resource,,, We are in your debt. :)"
Kevin	2001
"GREAT product! pretty easy to install, works very nice... It's still running strong -- fantastic piece of coding."
Nathan Affleck naffleck at hightechhigh dot org	2001
"Just wanted to let you know we are using your web content filtering engine at www.hightechhigh.org... ...and most of all, thank you."
Theodoor van der Kooij	2001
"The FreeBSD version rocks the world. Even after +/- 12 hours it's still faster then when I used it with Linux (Slackware)."
Alan Millar	2001
"Using it at home for my own kids; works nicely."
Laurence Praties	2001
"DansGuardian has got to be one of the best of the proxies I use; the code is well managed, it's small and it works well. Thanks!"
Bryan lan_administrator at solanapres.org	2001
"DG is a great product."
Robby Balona robby at ticketweb dot co dot za	2001
"Great product man, ...I give it a 10. I look forward to the new release and again well done on a fantastic program."
b k bkahuna2k at usa dot net	2001
"Initial tests on VA Linux 6.2.4 look great! DG2 ROCKS! Much faster than DG1!"
Andy Leedy	2001
"I currently have a RH 6.2 box set up running both DansGuardian and squidGuard. (They seem to complement each other nicely.)"
n8 n8 at phatmorton dot com	2001
"All I can say is thanks for the code so far. ...it's a helluva lot cheaper than a commercial package that does the same thing (if not better). I hope to have our high school implement it soon."
Brendan	2001
"I just got Dansguardian working the other day, and it works real slick. I'm surprised how well it started working, especially compared with squidGuard, which I still haven't gotten to work... Anyway thanks for your fine work. It's really cool."
John Beamon jbeamon at centcom dot dhs dot org	2001
"Regarding 0.9.0 - It's in and running. So far, it's blocked me once, so that's good. I actually just fired it up and started browsing at first, and it DIDN'T block me. Took me a while to find that exceptioniplist, and that I was browsing from 192.168.0.2. :-) I like this feature a lot. I've got uses for this one, like the fact that my wife does a lot of drug research for professional reasons and keeps getting blocked by my @*$!#@$# firewall. This'll help!"
Craig Network Admin, Berlin High School crmanski at yahoo dot com	2001
"DansGuardian has done an excellent job of picking up where squidguard misses the mark. Thanks Dan!"
John Beamon jbeamon at centcom dot dhs dot org	2001
"I'm truly impressed. This is a great product. The integration of DG and squidGuard on a transparent proxy is a long overdue blessing for sysadmins everywhere. Thanks."
Mathew McKernan m.mckernan at cccc dot vic dot edu dot au	2001
"I've been using DG 0.8.0 for a few weeks now, and I'm impressed. I have to admit that it was a difficult initial build, but I was integrating it with squidGuard. That may have complicated matters. I just grabbed the two precompiled tarballs and installed them. Nice. Very nice! I like the custom reporting level a LOT, as I administer a filtering proxy for a local school. Glad you added this, as "http://...%phrase-found=*ickhead" was just not serving the intended purpose. ;-) First I wish to congratulate on a great piece of software you have developed and for free. My workplace has found it very useful, the fact that it passes through with Proxy Auth is the biggest feature over Active Guardian. My administration is more than happy with its results and for little cost."
Gavin McIntosh	2001
"It is working well and should, although not totally negate the need for me to monitor internet access, greatly reduce the time I spend doing so."
Christoph Iwasjuta	2001
"Thank you for your great work, DansGuardian is a fantastic piece of software!"
Jeremey Ward	2001
"These salesmen come and try to sell me their 'wonderful' filters such as Net Nanny and Cyber Patrol, but they are a complete waste of time without checking the actual content of the pages."
Jojo Nicdao	2001
"I eventually got dansguardian to work beautifully with RedHat 7. Thanks a lot to the FAQs and help! This program definitely ranks '10' Thanks, your program is a life saver!"
David Anso	2001
"I tried to setup Active Guardian and gave up in dispair. I have been using squidGuard for a few months now, and it's working fine, except it seems to miss rediculously high amounts of content. I am very interested to try DansGuardian..."

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