Re: Chat/IM

[Craig Paterson <craigp () tippett com>]

Remko Lodder wrote:

> Harper, Patrick wrote:
>
> Use a proxy and only allow 80/443 and 21/20 ???
>
> > Does anyone have an effective way of blocking chat/IM?
> > Krisa Rowland ERDC Information Assurance Team 

That alone won't do it -- most of the IM systems are smart enough to 
tunnel on port 80 if they can't get out another way. You'll also need to 
block the login servers, which is a moving target but (depending on how 
tight your requirement) does a pretty good job of breaking IM for LAN 
users without a huge time investment.

Craig.



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