Foxy: Filtering Proxy
Foxy is a filtering web proxy.
It acts as a middleman between the users' browsers and the Internet.
All through traffic is inspected, categorized, counted, and may be
modified, redirected, or blocked, if neccessary.
Foxy is not just another “internet filter”,
“popup blocker”,
“porn stopper”,
“form filler”,
etc.
It can do it all, and much, much more.
Blocks popups, banners, cookies, scripts, applets, objects, various media types,
deanimates GIF images, spoofs request headersFoxy has all the features common to web filtering software
but it goes the extra mile.
For example, it's easy to block JavaScript, but it
completely breaks many sites that use scripts in all their links.
Unlike other web filters, in many cases Foxy can convert
scripted links to regular links when blocking JavaScript, which
preserves functionality of many de-scripted web sites.Protects your kids from porn
Foxy analyzes web pages on the fly consulting user-defined
dictionaries and blocks access to sites containing objectionable
content.Thousands of new sites appear every day. Most commercial
blockers rely on static domain lists. The user has to pay for
subscription to keep up with the constantly changing Internet.
Vendors usually claim that domain lists are “manually
categorized”, etc. Actually, domain databases are
produced by automated crawlers configured with categorized
dictionaries.Foxy does it on the fly. All known and yet unknown sources
of objectionable content can be easily blocked. It's up to
the user to decide what kind of content should be blocked
and how sensitive the matching should be. For more details
please see filter documentation.Static categorization by domain list is also available.
May be used, for example, to prevent your employees from
accessing the web anonymosly via public CGI proxies.Efficiently blocks server-side spyware
Server-side spyware (a.k.a. “web analytics technologies”)
is the nastiest thing on the web.
It's invisible, but it can track your steps across
multiple sites and easily gets past firewalls,
cookie blocking, etc. Almost every commercial web site uses
this technology today. E.g. open page source of cnn.com,
mapquest.com, or almost anything else and look for something like
SiteCatalyst, RedSheriff, WebSideStory, Nielsen//NetRatings,
Vibrant Media, Google Analytics, or Tacoda.
Foxy recognizes malicious code fragments from those sources embedded
in host pages by unique signatures and deletes them on the fly.
