WFilter supports online activation and Email activation.

If you choose to activate your product over the Internet, upon your submisson the activation wizard will detect your Internet connection and connect to a secure server to transfer your register key to us. The registration is passed back to you, automatically activating WFilter, if the register key is valid.

If you choose to activate your product by email activation, you should input the register key in text box and click the “confirm”. You will get an activation code. Please send them to the support email box. The validation code will be sent back to you within 24 hours. Please copy them in the valiation code textbox to activate your product.

1. Steps of Online Activation

Online activation requires an available internet connection to connect to WFilter activation server.

1). In “Help”->”About” of WFilter, click “Product Activation”.

2). Input your key number and use “online activation” to do online activation.

3). Successful activation.

2. Steps of Email Activation

Online activation requires an available internet connection. If you can not connect to WFilter activation server, you also can use “Email Activation”.

1). Input your key number and use “email activation” to do online activation.

2). In “Email Activation”, copy the activation code and send to support email address support@imfirewall.com.cn.

3) It might take several hours to receive the reply email since the response email is sent manually.

4). In “Help”->”About” of WFilter, you need to enter the received validation code into WFilter.

3. De-activation

Sometimes, you might want to move the key to another computer. You need to de-activate this key first.
Click “deactivate” in “Help”->”About” to de-activate the key.

In WFilter 4.1, you can customize the email format for WFilter standard reports. With this feature, you can customize the emails sent to users.

For example, if you want a client to receive a monthly email of total bandwidth consumed, you can enable this feature. The email will look like being sent from you. Check below steps:

Edit a standard report

Edit a standard report, choose “Report Format” as “Customize”.

Customize the email content

Just input the email content, you can use the replacing marks listed. Html syntax is supported.

Now you can click “Send” and check your email. It’s exact what you’ve typed in.

Using WFilter’s “NAT Detector” plugin, you can detect client devices which are running NAT services or proxy services.

In this example, I will guide you to use the “NAT Detector” plugin of WFilter.

1. Install “NAT Detector” plugin.

2. Detect client devices which are running NAT services or proxy services.

Devices running NAT/proxy services will be listed, together with the client devices.

3. Set temporary blocking

You can set temporary blocking for punishment

Using “IP/MAC/Port lookup” plugin, you can get the IP location, MAC vendor and port protocol information based on user input.

In this example, I will guide you to use the “IP/MAC/Port lookup” plugin of WFilter.

1. Install “IP/MAC/Port lookup” plugin

2.1 Look up IP location

Input 180.97.33.107(Baidu)

2.2 Look up MAC vendor

Input 00-0B-2F-7B-47-64

2.3 Look up port protocol information

Input 80

Complete blocking of facebook.com is cruel to users, you might want to only block facebook videos or photos without blocking the entire site.

According to our test, facebook now hosts all its photos and videos in “akamaihd.net”. If you block “*.akamaihd.net” with WFilter’s “https black list”, you still can access facebook, but no photo or video will show up. Your facebook becomes a simple text site.

Tests also shows all photos are hosted in domains named “fbcdn-sphotos-*.akamaihd.net”. To block facebook photos only, you can block tls sites “fbcdn-sphotos-*.akamaihd.net”.

Facebook local videos are hosted in “fbcdn-video-*.akamaihd.net”, to block facebook videos only, you need to add “fbcdn-video-*.akamaihd.net” into “website black list” of WFilter. The below figure shows a video being blocked.