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Admin Guide

Web Safety is a simple and powerful web filtering proxy / secure web gateway that provides rich content and web filtering functionality to sanitize Internet traffic passing into internal home/school/enterprise network. It may be used to block illegal or potentially malicious file downloads, remove annoying advertisements, prevent access to various categories of the web sites and block resources with explicit content.

The application is easily deployed and managed, requires minimal external dependencies, very robust and runs with excellent performance.

Fully configured versions of Web Safety can be quickly deployed as virtual appliance in VMware vSphere/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Azure Cloud and Amazon AWS. It is also possible to install it on your real hardware by following installation tutorials in the Administrator Guide.

Virtual Appliances

Download the stable or development version of Web Safety as ready to run virtual appliance for VMware vSphere/ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V.

Build Status Build Date Version Download Links
Stable October 17, 2024 9.3 VMware vSphere/ESXi appliance or Microsoft Hyper-V appliance or Proxmox VE appliance.
Develop November 17, 2024 9.4 VMware vSphere/ESXi appliance or Microsoft Hyper-V appliance or Proxmox VE appliance.
Old Stable November 10, 2023 8.7 VMware vSphere/ESXi appliance or Microsoft Hyper-V appliance

Microsoft Azure

Fully configured ready to run virtual machine can be deployed directly into your Azure subscription from Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Required steps are described in several quick start tutorials for Microsoft Azure.

Amazon AWS

The same virtual machine can also be deployed directly into your Amazon subscription from Amazon Marketplace. Required steps are described in several quick start tutorials for Amazon AWS.