1The file "COPYING" contains the Copyright statement for 2the ufdbGuard software suite. 3 4The official ufdbGuard homepage is http://www.urlfilterdb.com 5ufdbGuard can be downloaded at http://www.urlfilterdb.com 6and http://sourceforge.net 7 8In case that anyone has a build problem or needs help 9installing or configuring ufdbGuard, you can send an email 10to support@urlfilterdb.com. 11We reply in less than 24 hours. 12 13Please download the Reference Manual for detailed installation 14and configuration instructions. 15 16ufdbGuard is a free (GPL2), flexible and extremely fast filter, redirector 17and access controller plugin for squid. It lets you define multiple 18access rules with different restrictions for different user groups on 19a squid cache. ufdbGuard uses squid's standard redirector interface. 20 21The file "GPL" contains the license of the software, the GPL 22is also known as the GNU Public License, Version 2. 23 24The ufdbGuard daemon is inspired by squidGuard 1.2 and 25has almost all of its features and more. 26Parts of the ufdbGuard daemon are based on squidGuard. 27For 3rd parties there is also an ufdbGuard API for inclusion in your application. 28 29Features of ufdbGuard: 30+ 3-4 times faster than squidGuard 31+ a multithreaded daemon with one copy of the database in memory 32+ detects HTTPS proxy tunnels. 33+ detects SSH-based tunnels. 34+ blocks HTTPS for URLs without FQDN 35+ blocks HTTPS for sites without a properly signed SSL certificate 36+ uses in-memory databases 37+ enforce the SafeSearch feature on Google and other search engines 38+ an API to use ufdbGuard in any 3rd party application 39+ a test mode (-T option) allows you to test a URL filter database 40 without actually blocking sites. 41 42The Reference Manual contains a complete installation procedure. 43 44ufdbGuard is free software. 45ufdbGuard can be used with your own, free and commercial databases. 46ufdbGuard collects anonymous statistics which show that the 47URL database from URLfilterDB has on average 99.0% coverage while 48other database only have a 91.7% coverage average. 49 50