Jon's Network

Astaro now blocks Ultrasurf with version 7.4. The need and difficulty of this task for schools are so great that Astaro issued a press release to announce the new feature. Apparently they are doing this using SSL inspection (outbound SSL proxy) as opposed to using application signatures. Outbound SSL proxies introduce a new range of [...]

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When you download UltraSurf 9.3, you get a file called u.exe. This file was submitted to Virustotal on 2/26/2009 and the results are here. Only 3 out of 38 companies identified Ultrasurf 9.3 as malware. Fortinet, Prevx1 and Quick Heal of India. Contrast that with this Virustotal scan of UltraSurf 8.8 from 3/13/2008 where 9 [...]

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Blocking client-server applications like Ultrasurf at the network level can be a pain. Not so much if you have a firewall from Palo Alto Networks or a reasonably sophisticated URL filter like St. Bernard’s iPrism, but if you are constantly playing cat-and-mouse trying to block Ultrasurf et al. on your network you might see if [...]

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Organizations under pressure to keep students and employees from bypassing internet filters using client technologies, like UltraSurf are in a perpetual game of cat and mouse. A network admin I know used these steps to block it on his Sonicwall: Ultrasurf uses “140300000101″ for SSL ehlo messages. If you can block this signature with the [...]

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