1The file "COPYING" contains the Copyright statement for
2the ufdbGuard software suite.
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4The official ufdbGuard homepage is http://www.urlfilterdb.com
5ufdbGuard can be downloaded at http://www.urlfilterdb.com
6and http://sourceforge.net
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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.
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13Please download the Reference Manual for detailed installation
14and configuration instructions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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42The Reference Manual contains a complete installation procedure.
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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.
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