Filtering software is fallible, most people know this. BUT. Let's say you are a corporate/school/whatever administrator. You do not filter inet access at all. Someone is viewing porn and it offends themselves, or someone else (their parents/boss/co-workers/whatever). You then get sued for whatever reason (creating a hostile work environment, kiddie porn possesion, whatever). If you have filtering software installed you have a much stronger legal stance, you made a reasonable effort to prevent it. People have succesfully sued companies for 1+ million for things such as sending around "10 reasons why beer is better then women" joke emails, viewing/emailing porn around, etc. Since companies have a fiduciary responsibility to the board/shareholders to take measures to minimize financial risk this is often why the filter internet access. Kurt Seifried, seifried@securityportal.com Securityportal - your focal point for security on the 'net