A Web filtering tool for business from Secure Computing Corporation, San Jose, CA (www.securecomputing.com). SmartFilter adds management control to Internet servers, firewalls and proxy servers. The software uses a URL database that catalogs sites by content (games, investing, sports, sex, cults, etc.), which is updated weekly.
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