Is there an Anti-Virus Proxy like system?

Basically, I thought of this idea, because I have some Windows
machines on my network, especially those for other family members. I
like the AVG tooldbar in Firefox for example can often block you from
sites that are known to be bad for viruses, but it stopped working on
Firefox 3 and I like Firefox 3 way better than 2.x.

Is there any type of anti-virus proxy, such as HAVP, unless someone
knows of any better or different ones that may also work (I'm saying
that because HAVP seems to be the only one I found) that I can make a
transparent proxy or if not a regular proxy that would hopefully block
people from going to sites, block at least the viruses parts of sites,
and hopefully stop virus infected downloads.

Or would the be a bad idea because often times I'm downloading huge
Linux ISOs DVD and CD?

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:24:45 -0700, RedPenguin passed an empty day by
writing:

> Basically, I thought of this idea, because I have some Windows machines
> on my network, especially those for other family members. I like the AVG
> tooldbar in Firefox for example can often block you from sites that are
> known to be bad for viruses, but it stopped working on Firefox 3 and I
> like Firefox 3 way better than 2.x.
>
> Is there any type of anti-virus proxy, such as HAVP, unless someone
> knows of any better or different ones that may also work (I'm saying
> that because HAVP seems to be the only one I found) that I can make a
> transparent proxy or if not a regular proxy that would hopefully block
> people from going to sites, block at least the viruses parts of sites,
> and hopefully stop virus infected downloads.
>
> Or would the be a bad idea because often times I'm downloading huge
> Linux ISOs DVD and CD?

This comes highly recommended but I've not gotten round to trying it
myself:

http://www.untangle.com/

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Klunk <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> This comes highly recommended but I've not gotten round to trying it
> myself:
>
> http://www.untangle.com/

Actually that looked bloody great, but I couldn't find a Linux version.
However there is a stand alone box version with integrated operating
system, if you have a spare computer with two network cards, but I haven't got
one of those.

Mark.

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Mark Hobley <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Actually that looked bloody great, but I couldn't find a Linux version.

I found a Linux version

The source tarball is available from the developers section, and is
compatible with Linux.

I am going to check that out later.

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