SafeSquid is a Content Filtering Proxy Server with a browser based interface.

Features include:

- Multi-threaded architecture

- DNS cache, content caching system, and pre-fetching

- Create unlimited Internet policies, depending upon user / network / Web-site / mime-type / size / time / etc.

- Allow or block specific content, like music, ActiveX, JavaScripts, advertisement banners, etc., and any part of the protocol header

- Real-time text analysis and image analysis besides categorized Web-site databases; support for the blocking or replacement of specific parts

- Users can be authenticated from a remote Windows A/D or OpenLDAP servers

- Throttle speed for low priority users or applications

- You can use anti-virus Software like ClamAV and any other ICAP based anti-virus

- You can customize the templates that are displayed when access or content is denied to the user

- Logs can be analyzed to create user activity reports

- The vendor states that it takes less than 3 minutes to install SafeSquid on a Linux based server; and that support includes "remote live-hand-holding"

- Features for use in clusters

Various SafeSquid editions are available to serve 20 user networks or thousands of concurrent users.