Whois & Analysis for squidblacklist.org

DansGuardian, written by SmoothWall Ltd and others, is content-control software: software designed to control which websites users can access.

It also includes virus filtering and usage monitoring features.

DansGuardian must be installed on a Unix or Linux computer, such as a server computer; its filtering extends to all computers in an organization, including Windows and Macintosh computers.

DansGuardian is used by schools, businesses, value-added Internet service providers, and others.

Mikrotīkls SIA, known internationally as MikroTik, is a Latvian manufacturer of computer networking equipment.

It sells wireless products and routers.

The company was founded in 1996, with the intent to sell in the emerging wireless technology market.

As of 2015, the company has more than 160 employees.

Squid is a caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy.

It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests; to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, to aiding security by filtering traffic.

Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other protocols including TLS, SSL, Internet Gopher and HTTPS.

Squid does not support the SOCKS protocol.

SquidGuard is a URL redirector software, which can be used for content control of websites users can access.

It is written as a plug-in for Squid and uses blacklists to define sites for which access is redirected.

SquidGuard must be installed on a Unix or Linux computer such as a server computer.

The software's filtering extends to all computers in an organization, including Windows and Macintosh computers.

In computing, a blacklist or block list is a basic access control mechanism that allows through all elements (email addresses, users, passwords, URLs, IP addresses, domain names, file hashes, etc), except those explicitly mentioned.

Those items on the list are denied access.

The opposite is a whitelist, which means only items on the list are let through whatever gate is being used.

A greylist contains items that are temporarily blocked (or temporarily allowed) until an additional step is performed.