SolvNet
Customers may activate dial-up accounts, either analog or
ISDN, through a Filtered Access service. Filtered
Access provides "Family Friendly" or "G Rated" access
control for the end-user. Dial-Up customers do not have
direct control or override capability for this service, making
it secure and safe for the consumer use.
This service uses the BESS/N2H2
product line for the filter control. SolvNet
maintains all the applicable access
restrictions via a BESS Proxy Server,
located in SolvNet's main facility. Your
users on the network can make requests
to browse any site on the Internet. When that request is
made, it is first sent to the proxy server before going out to
the Internet. SolvNet's proxy server running BESS
software checks a "block-access" list to see if the
requested site is one that has been designated as off
limits or "blocked." If the requested site is blocked, a
message in the form of a web page is sent back to the
requesting computer informing the user that the page is not
accessible. If the requested site is not in the block-access
list, the proxy server makes the request which goes out
onto the Internet and the site is retrieved.
The SolvNet Proxy Server is updated weekly through a
contract with N2H2 thereby insuring the latest information
for safe internet access. They have a list of blocked sites
that is larger and more comprehensive than any other in
the filtering business. The N2H2 filtered site list contains
hundreds of thousands of Web pages that are personally
reviewed and updated daily. SolvNet customers are
provided with a web-based request form for the customer
to ask that a specific site or URL be added to the SolvNet
Proxy Server exclusion list and therfore, blocked. N2H2
uses sophisticated search engines, webcrawlers and other
techniques to find sites that might fall into categories that
should be blocked. Using these various methods, they
narrow down these suspicious sites to a "review list." Each
site in that review list is then looked at by someone on their
staff to determine if the site should be blocked. Their
coverage of the Internet is unmatched in the industry and
they have a department whose sole task is to create the
block-access lists.