Net Nanny

[plonq]

Some day I'd like to see the algorithm that our corporate firewall uses to allow or block web sites.  Today I was attempting to visit a page called, "VB6's File System Objects.  Article from Visual Developer Magazine."  I had a valid reason for wanting to visit this page, but when I clicked on the link I was met by the familiar white screen with red text informing me that I was attempting to visit a page with objectionable content.  I called up Google cache of the page to get the information that I needed, and to my surprise the entire page is a dry tutorial on how to use VB6's File System Objects.

<sigh> I can see how some people might find that page objectionable (such as those who spell Microsoft with a $ in the middle), but come on...

Comments

[furahi.livejournal.com]

They didn't do it like that here
However you can use a transparent proxy to mirror the windowsupdate site and have all the individual computers download from your proxy instead of MS.

[tzisorey.livejournal.com]

He preferred to do it this way, because it meant he could prevent updates going to individual PCs until he'd tested them against their (very badly written, but 100% necessary - his words) industry specific software. Granted, he probably could've used group policy to turn off automatic updates, but I don't know why he didn't do that.