Untangle: An easy to use Solution for protecting your Kids

• Posted by Steve Spencer

Article posted on Apr 17

(Warning… Passionate rant and possible arm-waving begins now)

Last night I was fooling around with my DansGuardian server at home… again.  I have it running on a crappy little server that always seems to have problems.  Not only that, but I really haven’t been all that pleased with the lag from the squid caching, or the painful fine-tuning of Dans Guardian from time to time.  Plus, I did not have it inline with my network, so any intelligent kid could easily bypass it.  But I didn’t want to go to the trouble of inserting another NIC and setting up by Linux install for bridging… just a pain.

Enter Untagle.   Let me just say “HOLY CRAP!”  I went to the website (very professionally done BTW), pulled down an ISO (for free), and burned a disk.  I inserted the disk into a computer and booted from it.  The install was the easiest install I have ever done.  No hard questions… no troubleshooting.  It just worked.  My mother in law could have installed this!  I did have to throw in a $17 network card to ensure complete protection by putting it so it can’t be bypassed.

Done.  Within 10 minutes of EXTREMELY easy configuring I had virus protection, spam protection, spyware, adult content filtering, and a bunch of other stuff all running.  The UI is super easy to understand and use.  Once installed everything can be done remotely.  Performance seems great.  All of this at absolutely no cost.  These guys are amazing.  Seriously, I cannot recommend a product any higher than I can this one.  If you are, or know someone who is looking to protect their kids from porn, this is your solution.  I have shied away from pointing anyone at DansGuardian in the past, as I knew they would bug me for tech support questions forever on it.  It is just too difficult for a non-tech person.

Untangled.  Don’t have it?  Get it!  Curious?  Watch the video.

• Posted in Techno Rambling