SurfControl Plc., was a British software company based in

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. The company provided

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filtering,

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filtering and desktop security software for both

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and home users. SurfControl was acquired by

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on 3 October 2007. The purchase price was approximately £204 million ($416 million), including

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and stock option expense. Websense plans to continue the SurfControl business until at least 2011. On 2 April 2008, Websense sold CyberPatrol, the SurfControl parental control software product, to newly formed Internet safety software company CyberPatrol, LLC. According to Websense's quarterly report, they received $1.4 million in cash from the sale of CyberPatrol assets. Prior to being acquired by Websense, SurfControl acquired a

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company called BlackSpider Technologies Limited in July 2006 for £19.5m in cash.

Product range

The current product range is called the ''Enterprise Protection Suite'', and includes products for website and e-mail filtering and user security. The key feature of the SurfControl filtering software is the ability to categorize websites and then allow or restrict users access by selecting categories. Examples of the categories are: * Adult/Sexually Explicit * Advertisements & Popups * Personals & Dating * Proxies & Translators * Intolerance & Hate SurfControl also license their URL database and categorization engine to other companies such as

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for use in their products and appliances.

References

External links

SurfControl's Official Website
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