This article introduce you to block “Proxy Tunneling” software in WFilter 4.1 . Tor is a popular Proxy Tunneling software, and I will guide you to block Tor.
Step 1. New a blocking level in “Policy Settings->Blocking Levels”, click “Edit” in Applications tab:
Step 2. Deny tor protocol and save setting:
Step 3. Apply this blocking level to computer:
Step 4. Open tor then it can’t connect to the server.
Step 5. You can see blocking records in “Current Online->Real-time Blocking”:
Snapcaht is a popular chat software, this article will guide you to block snapchat in WFilter 4.1 .
Step 1. New a blocking level in “Policy Settings->Blocking Levels”, click “Edit” in Applications tab:
Step 2. Deny snapchat protocol and save setting:
Step 3. Apply this blocking level to computer:
Step 4. Visit snapchat website and check result:
Step 5. You can see blocking records in “Current Online->Real-time Blocking”:
WFilter 4.1 has it’s own protocols library, so you can block protocols to block video website and client.
Step 1. New a blocking level in “Policy Settings->Blocking Levels”, then click “Edit” in Applications tab:
Step 2. Deny all protocols in Streaming category:
Step 3. Apply this blocking level to computer:
Step 4. Visit video website and check result(Youtube client also be blocked):
Step 5. You can see blocking records in “Current Online->Real-time Blocking”:
WFilter can detect type of transfer files, when you block web video, all video files will be blocked by WFilter.
Step 1. New a blocking level in “Policy Settings->Blocking Levels”, and check “Block Web Video” in Web tab:
Step 2. Apply this blocking level to computer:
Step 3. Visit video website and check result:
Step 4. You can see blocking records in “Current Online->Real-time Blocking”:
WFilter 4.1 has a url library so you can block “Streaming Media” category to block video websites.Proceed as follows:
Step 1. New a “blocking level” in “Policy Settings->Blocking Levels”, then check “Block webpages by categories” and select new in “Category”:
Step 2. Deny “Streaming Media” category and save setting:
Step 3. Apply this blocking level to computer in “Policy Settings->User-device List”:
Step 4. Visit a video website and check result:
Step 5. You can see the blocking records in “Current Online->Real-time Blocking”:
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.
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.
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.
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, choose “Report Format” as “Customize”.
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.
Devices running NAT/proxy services will be listed, together with the client devices.
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.
Input 180.97.33.107(Baidu)
Input 00-0B-2F-7B-47-64
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.
