[NCSA-discuss] windows firewall question

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Most security sites provide this feature now a days. Search for Windows
white list black list security our something along those lines. Of course,
the employee would likely have to use a restricted user account, otherwise
they could easily bypass software on the local machine. Ideally you should
provide a external proxy server or firewall to provide this function.

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On Dec 14, 2011 10:09 PM, "Joseph Mack NA3T" <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> A friend has a shop that's not particularly busy and the new person at the
> counter seems to have used the PoS machine (WinXP) to surf the internet and
> download viruses while waiting for customers to buy something. The viruses
> stop the PoS machine from doing its PoS work which is distressing to my
> friend. Firing the clerk isn't an option apparently.
>
> The WinXP machine is connected via a DSL box to the internet. The machine
> only has to connect to the sites of a few (say 10) vendors to handle
> ordering. A possible solution would be to setup a firewall that only
> allowed access to the vendor sites, with new sites being added on in a gui.
> I'd expected ZoneAlarm could do this, but on checking with their technical
> people (via a chat room), I found that ZoneAlarm doesn't do this.
>
> Any windows firewalls that work the way I want?
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks Joe
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