bench wrote:I don't see why I would need puresight
In the scenario you presented IMHO you wouldn't. But what if the client said to you "I don't want any users to access porn sites" You would have to come up with a rather large list of sites to enter into WG policies. Norton's internet security programs do this. They have a huge database of sites to check against and it is constantly being updated - something you would have to do to keep the client happy. PureSight, a product that Qbik does not develop, took a different approach and through some clever "magic" are able to do a pretty good job determining if a site has porn in it or not. I'll be the first to admit it is not perfect, but nothing in life seldom is. Maybe I'm wrong here and Qbik staff can correct me, but I surmise that Qbik wanted to offer to it's customers something beyond the scope of what they were developing and they felt PureSight fit the bill. Thus Qbik developed an interface to WG so the Puresight plug in could add the additional filtering parameters.
bench wrote:I thought wingate was supposed to do just that with the service and system policies
WG is great but not that great! I think what you are saying here is akin to: Why doesn't MS include WordPerfect with their OSes instead of Wordpad? I think it would be fantastic if Qbik could develop their own content filtering product (to Qbik - Can You? Do you want to?) and offer it with WG at the same price they do now.
Just my thoughts. Ah, but yes, one man's logic is another man's nightmare!