Putting MySurfGuard to test

// November 26th, 2009 // programming

So I had to run ruby script to to assess how good MySurfGuard is (it’s basically a package of DansGuardian, Webmin and Squid). I had 5000++ over URLs in a  text file supposed to be porn sites with a remark whether it is a porn site or not verified by human. I got it from Untangle website.They tested the scripts on some other apps so I’ve done some minor changes for DansGuardian (mysurfguard-test.rb).

  1. Install MySurGuard.
  2. I kinda cheated a little bit – took the updated blacklist from here and phraselist from here so MySurfGuard has the latest copy.
  3. Install ruby and lynx and wget (the script needs them) and as I was working on CentOS, so it’s
    4. $ yum install ruby ruby-devel lynx wget
  4. Install lynx wget (the script requires them)
  5. Set configuration file for lynx to use proxy, put in your proxy address and port
    6. #in /etc/lynx-site.fg
PROTOCOL_proxy="http://localhost:8080/"
  6. For wget to use proxy, do
    7. $ export http_proxy="http://localhost:8080"
  7. Run the script
    8. $ ./mysurfguard-test.rb results-human.txt results-mysurfguard.txt

You’ll have the result in results-mysurfguard.txt

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